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Sorry for the long series of quotes below, but I wanted to create a new thread for this sub-topic of a previous thread ("How Many Steps to the First Hurdle", http://mb.trackandfieldnews.com/disc...ic.php?t=34760), and so I copied and pasted most of the old discussion here.
[quote=Smoke]
Don't ask Kevin, please don't LOL Last time I heard Kevin talk he screwed up the race pattern. Trust me, not only was I a friend, but I was the assistant coach atthe time. I had the unique experience of training with him from 1989 through 1992 and helping coach him in 1992 through 1994. There's no eleven. Believe me, we celebrate 12 enough, if there was 11 I would not hesitate to throw it out there, that is a HUGE feat.[/quote:yfx0dvm9]
I've been meaning to reply to this discussion for some time, since I vividely remembered watching Kevin Young's '92 quarterfinal race back in high school (when I was first learning about step-patterns) and sitting in disbelief of the 11 steps I'd just counted. Well, as I was going through some old track videos recently I finally found my recording of that race, so I took a moment to download it and post it to YouTube. Here's the direct link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGoYyyjqqg), but in case it get's removed as a "copyrighted" video you can find it by searching "Kevin Young 11-stepping".
The 11-step segment came between hurdles 3 and 4, after which he also went on to 12-step hurdles 5 and 6. It's unfortunately a little hard to count the steps of this segment with the video at full-speed because the NBC view changes after his first few strides, so I edited the video (the only editing I did) to run in slow-motion for that segment. I don't believe there were any strides cut-out during the view-change since there is no skip in the on-screen running time. You can also see that he starts overstriding, almost bounding, the last few strides into the hurdle, which makes it clear that this was 11-steps and not 13 (he'd just stutter-stepped to 13 the hurdle before, and quickens his stride-rate to 12-step the next hurdle).
Anyway, I just thought this might be an interesting view in light of the previous discussions and "mythology" of the 11-step pattern. I hope that there's not problem with pointing you all towards this video, and I'd love to hear any thoughts or comments about it. As a former 400h'er who struggled to 14-step I find the accomplishment of an 11-step segment to be truly extraordinary.
[quote=Smoke]
Originally posted by gh
I've been meaning to reply to this discussion for some time, since I vividely remembered watching Kevin Young's '92 quarterfinal race back in high school (when I was first learning about step-patterns) and sitting in disbelief of the 11 steps I'd just counted. Well, as I was going through some old track videos recently I finally found my recording of that race, so I took a moment to download it and post it to YouTube. Here's the direct link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGoYyyjqqg), but in case it get's removed as a "copyrighted" video you can find it by searching "Kevin Young 11-stepping".
The 11-step segment came between hurdles 3 and 4, after which he also went on to 12-step hurdles 5 and 6. It's unfortunately a little hard to count the steps of this segment with the video at full-speed because the NBC view changes after his first few strides, so I edited the video (the only editing I did) to run in slow-motion for that segment. I don't believe there were any strides cut-out during the view-change since there is no skip in the on-screen running time. You can also see that he starts overstriding, almost bounding, the last few strides into the hurdle, which makes it clear that this was 11-steps and not 13 (he'd just stutter-stepped to 13 the hurdle before, and quickens his stride-rate to 12-step the next hurdle).
Anyway, I just thought this might be an interesting view in light of the previous discussions and "mythology" of the 11-step pattern. I hope that there's not problem with pointing you all towards this video, and I'd love to hear any thoughts or comments about it. As a former 400h'er who struggled to 14-step I find the accomplishment of an 11-step segment to be truly extraordinary.
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