The recent series of messages that have come out as a result of a message posted from New Zealand have absolutely nothing to do with racewalking. What started...
A few points to Mike's comments. With no disrespect meant. Your statements are mainly opinion, not necessarily fact. While I agree with the concept of what you...
Wayne, my point is that while you might not appreciate them - the "others" are supportive of you and your sport. They are the ones that actually sit up at...
In a message dated 4/1/2005 12:48:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, domotor@... writes: And while I'm still no speed demon, I'm out there training as hard as I...
I think one can train work and reach national status however if one wants to excel internationally they really can not work. Training, eating and sleeping is...
Paul wrote: <snip> Keep smiling and let's hope that this topic get dropped as it is not a racewalking issue. <end snip> In some sense, it might be as in: "how...
Actually, Carl Schueler has worked (and received many promotions in a CAREER position as a land use planner) for the El Paso County, Colorado Springs and made...
Correction, Judy : you wrote This position of "you either race walk or you don't belong in competition" is elitist, NO ONE has said that. People can set up any...
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.> ... ....................AND, how much of a little bit of bent knees would you consider acceptable?? When would someone be taking an unfair advantage by ...
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I agree with Jeff here 100%. I have quite a few video tapes which show an athlete who was DQed for bent knee but showing no perceptible violation under slow...
Jeff My opinions are based upon the dozens and dozens of articles on human kinesiology that I have read over the last few years. I am not parroting anyone,...
Mike, I don't see how you can support these statements. Race walk coaching in this country is generally on a par with that of other events. While there may...
Thought I would change the subject so that it better reflects the conversation. OK, so its your thought. It's equally dangerous and you have actually...
James McGrath <jmcgrat9@...> wrote: .> ... ....................AND, how much of a little bit of bent knees would you consider acceptable?? When would...
... than our ... race ... need ... I'm talking about the scientific knowledge and application of that science into training. For physiology, we just apply the...
Hello Jeff and Mike, Back in the 80's--when the rules allowed a walker to land with a bent knee so long as the knee was straightened by the time it reached the...
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Jeff Its not about the judging, that is only a component of the process. I am not claiming to be a PhD in Kinesiology, but I am actively engaged in studying...
My comments were made stictly about the idea of applying this to judging. Actively studying and drawing a conclusion is not the same as being an expert. I...
Coach Jake - did you read Wayne's posts? If not elitist they were full of loathing for anything other than race walking and a handful of runners at the lead. I...
Coach Korzeniowski and a few other notables gather in Portugal http://www.iaaf.org/WRC05/news/Kind=2/newsId=29012.html Hurdler switches to walking, no doubt...
There have been several articles in "Track Coach" (formerly "Track Technique"), certainly a respected sport publication, relating to race walking over the...
The phrase "wogging" appeared briefly in the mid-80's. The theory was that wogging would be to racewalking as jogging was to running. It was walking for the...
Hi Everyone, Interesting conversation. I've been to a couple of the USATF Distance summits and Level 3 schools and naturally they are all about running but...
It apparently hasn't died the death you thought, see the following found on a search of the net, Wogging Day November 7, 2004 • Filed under: _Sports_ ...
And this from: _http://www.ci.greeley.co.us/2n/OrgPages/152/RaceWalk.pdf_ (http://www.ci.greeley.co.us/2n/OrgPages/152/RaceWalk.pdf) ( I suspect that this was...
<<PERHAPS, the solution is to keep Racewalking rules as they are and also have informal Walking races with general guidlines for rules as specified by the...
Don't forget Carl's mentee who walked the first 20k 'A' standard while fitting workouts in between his 36 hour shifts in an a very small sized vault some many...
Jake - It was 4 Olympic teams and I believe what Jeff said was "if one wants to excel internationally they really can not work." Outside of 1984, errr......
