POSB Everyday Champions Award 2009

I was very honoured to be part of this grand occasion tonight -

to be one of the Winners of the POSB Everyday Champions Award for the Coaches Cateogory.

The event was graced by President S R Nathan and Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports, organised by Singapore Sports Council and POSB.

The award seeks to recognise individuals, coaches and organisations who have consistently contributed time and effort, beyond their call of duty or responsibilty, so that others can enjoy sport and grow in sport.

The profile of all 57 winners are listed here - in 3 separate categories: Individual, Coaches and Organisations.

Please vote for myself in the Coaches category HERE!
http://www.singaporesports.sg/Posbchampions/home.aspx

Thank you for your support :)

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2nd Allcomers - Continued

More photos and videos!

At the blocks:

Calvin

Melanie
Hakeem
And here are the videos:
Women's Race (Under 27 secs ) Heat 1- Melanie [25.90]

Men's Races (Under 23.5secs) Heat 1 - Hakeem [22.05], Calvin [22.63]

Heat 2 - Hilmi [23.07]

Heat 3 - Wynner [24.19]

Men's Races (23.5-24.5secs) Heat 1 - Joseph [23.39]

Heat 2 - Jing Long

There was also a relay 2x100m and Shali was running in it.

Great Job everyone!

Keep training harder!

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2nd Allcomers

14th Feb 2009 saw not only Valentine's but also the 2nd Allcomers 2009. 200m was the event and here some candid photos. Videos and other pictures will be posted up real soon! Keep updated!
Athletes that took part were:

Wynner

Hakeem

Hilmi
(here with Alfred)
Melanie
and Joseph and Calvin (whose pictures aren't here yet)

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Power Training

Lunges position, pushing forward using only front leg.

Just to share, some crazy ideas that I have about acceleration training. I've seen Patrick Johnson done a similiar drill like this. Inspired by him, testing on my athletes.

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High Speed Drills - Step Overs

High Speed Drills

The step over drills is used in the high speed running phase in the 100m. I personally find that this technique is one of the most efficient way in order to sprint fast using the right muscle to do the right work. The hamstring is considered as a fast muscle and is suitable for carrying out task that requires fast movement. Therefore, making use of the anatomy of the body, we can speed up our recovery phase by smacking our heel to the butt fast.

As shown in the video above, Wynner ran through the equally spaced hurdles and simulating the stepping over action with the aid of the hurdles.

If we focus on his feet, you can see a cycling action with the feet , smacking from heel to butt and thus generating high velocity to drive the thigh forward, and feet going just over the knee of the opposite leg. It need not be a 90 degrees high on the thigh, I feel it would be a waste of time over driving of your knees. Just let your feet and let it serves as a guide, and step over your knees will be efficient enough for a nice "claw" to the ground.

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