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Great Lead Leg Drills to Improve Your Hurdlers!

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Elisha Brewer demonstrates lead leg drills to help hurdlers master the correct leg action before clearing full hurdles.

Before you can take on a full flight of hurdles one must first learn the movements as discussed here in the "Lead Leg Drill." Listen to former All-American, Elisha Brewer, and watch as this is a very important drill to master before putting an athlete on the track with a full flight of hurdles. For information on purchasing this DVD, go to: championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/p/Track-Field/Beco… For more information on additional Track DVDs, go to: championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/track-and-field-dv…

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What commenters say. Recommended as a resource for learning proper lead leg drive and knee action.

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On “Hurdling form”

Your trail arm is going too far past your hip. It opens up your body and causes you to be off-balance. Instead of swinging wide, rip your trail arm back to the hip (back to natural sprinting position). Like this second drill Also, hurdling is not hopping. You are killing all of your sprinting momentum by jumping up over the hurdle. Your lead leg action begins from your lead knee. Drive that knee up while flexing your toe (think A-skips). I think you should focus on doing fundamental drills like this I totally understand how it feels not to have specific hurdle training. I began my career that way, and I became obsessive about doing my own drills and workouts. YouTube has so many incr…
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