Improving Hurdle Technique - Trail leg drill

There have already been a few helpful comments in here, but I just wanted to link some drills I’ve found helpful in coaching the trail leg. Walks are a great start: - hurdle walks - walking trail leg Another drill called trail leg slides can help: - trail slides *I usually have my athletes start with a bent leg instead of straightening it over the whole hurdle—in other words, put your knee at the edge of the top of the hurdle, rest your inside of your foot against the top of the hurdle, and drive your knee up and forward. Once you have that basic motion down, then you can put the leg all the way back to then drive through the knee. Also, if you struggle with getting the knee up, plac…

Most of the time I see someone that can get to the first hurdle in 8 steps, but can't 3 step, it comes down to their trail leg. You need to make sure that your trail leg comes around and your knee gets into the position of being up in front of you and at a higher level than your hips. This video shows what I'm talking about with the knee getting up, and it's also a good drill to do as part of warming up for hurdles. I would start with this drill for practicing the motion first. I have any hurdler having trail leg issues do those drills every hurdle warmup. If your trail leg is not getting into the positions shown in these videos, it makes is much more difficult to three step. You…