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Featuring legendary sprint coach Tom Tellez, Block Starts and Acceleration Mechanics presents an overview of the starting and acceleration mechanics that have made Tellez’s Santa Monica Track Club the best sprint group in the world for over a decade. The DVD details the factors that sprint coaches should look for in setting up the starting blocks, the optimal "set" position for an athlete, and what an athlete should do during the acceleration phase of the sprint to maximize performance.Among the topics covered:
- Coming out of the blocks
- Ideal leg angles in the blocks
- Acceleration
- Power vs. speed
- Arm stroke
Tom's biography:
Tom Tellez currently serves as a volunteer coach for the University of Houston track and field program, a position he assumed after serving 22 seasons as the head coach for the Cougars. A member of the U.S. Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Tellez has produced some of the greatest track and field performers in the history of the sport, including Carl Lewis, Joe DeLoach, Kirk Baptiste, Leroy Burrell, Mike Marsh, Willie Banks, and Dwight Stones. He has coached NCAA champions in the 55m hurdles, 60-yard dash, 100m, 200m, 400m, discus, shot put, long jump, high jump, pentathlon, and heptathlon. Between 1984 and 1996, six of the seven U.S. sprinters who won Olympic gold medals were coached by Tellez, and seven of the USA’s overall 13 medals were claimed by his athletes. At the present time, Tellez is coaching two-time NCAA long-jump champion Jenny Adams.
