Running Ahead of Speed – Technical Foundation, the Heart of the Matter (Part III)

What’s important for enhancing team speed for football? Too often, coaches don’t understand what skills help effectively produce football acceleration, change velocities and deliver burst capability. The essential skills are just that – essential. To produce these skills, you must realize that the bottom line is dependent on a sound foundational movement premise. Foundation simply refers to one fact that overrides all other factors; that is, technical application. Technique must always be the first thought when performing or coaching an athlete to run fast. Your foundation is built from technical principles that you use daily and weekly to process the motor patterns necessary for high frequency movement. Reasoning for Technical FoundationFoundation is often overlooked due to the lack of sound proven knowledge  available. If you’re involved in the effort of training athletes