Jeff Hartwig on Steve Hooker

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Jeff Hartwig on Steve Hooker

Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:20 am

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index. ... Itemid=118
And probably the biggest thing he did to improve was work with Alex. He comes from the old Soviet school of coaching. But instead of saying, “We need to teach Steve to jump like a Russian,” he said, “We need to take things from the Russian system that we know work well and apply them to Steve’s jump.”


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Re: Jeff Hartwig on Steve Hooker

Unread postby Bubba PV » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:57 am

That was the quote that stood out for me too. Wise men!! Bubba
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