The 2010 Canadian National Sprints Conference, November 12-14, 2010
"The Development of Speed"
This conference is an outstanding panel of experts that will discuss contemporary sprint training theory and practice over the course of 3 days. If you are in the Greater Toronto Area, then this is one of the “must attend” conferences of the year. If not, consider flying and visiting Toronto for a week or weekend.
This conference aims to analyze and debate a variety of sprint training systems and technical models in order to help coaches better understand the development of speed and how to improve their athletes’ performances.
Date: Nov 12 to 14, 2010
Location: Athletic Centre, University of Toronto
Registration Fee: $200 CAD
Presenters include:
- Tom Tellez
- Loren Seagrave
- Les Gramantik
- Gary Winckler
- Molly Killingbeck
- Anthony McCleary
- .. and more: Canadian National Event Group Coaches, athletic therapists, Canadian National Team Medical Practitioners and sports scientists from the Canadian Sport Centre Ontario.
Click here for the conference brochure (includes all presenters and schedule of presentations)
Click here to download the registration form.
Or contact Brian Kropman at: +1 (780) 492-1370 or brian.kropman@ualberta.ca
About Tom Tellez
Tom Tellez is one of the most well-respected sprint coaches in track and field. His distinctive biomechanics approach has contributed to the success of an unprecedented number of athletes, including nine-time Olympic Champion Carl Lewis. Tellez served for 22 years as Head Coach at the University of Houston where he produced numerous NCAA champions and All Americans. He has also mentored several top coaches such as Dan Pfaff, Vince Anderson, and John Smith. A USTFCCCA Hall of Fame 1998 inductee, Tellez continues to serve as a volunteer
About Loren Seagrave
Loren Seagrave is an internationally renowned coach and lecturer recognized for his progressive thinking around speed development and athletic preparation. He has worked with some of the finest sprint talent in the world, including Donovan Bailey, Andre Cason, Dawn Sowell, Sheila Echols, and Gwen Torrence. Formerly Head Women’s Coach at Louisiana State University, he is the co-founder of Speed Dynamics. Seagrave currently coaches Olympic Gold Medalist and three-time World Long Jump Champion Dwight Phillips and 2003 100mH World Champion Perdita Felicien.
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How long do we keep and will we keep living off yester year coaching information?
@adarian – as long as people continue to listen to the gurus…
After these coaches are dead and gone there will be others who will come up and take their place.They will have plenty of certification and degrees but train only the elite athlete because the poor people don’t have the money.
There are a coaches on the rise, but right now look at the athletes who placed at teh olympics in 08′, look at their coaches. You will noticed that alot of medals from the last few Olympics are coming from the same camp. They are all doing something right.
You said it right,they are doing something right with the elite athlete. Keep spending your money and see if they will ever tell you what they are doing.
Have seen both Loren and Tom present and would love to be a fly on the wall, they are not fans of each other that is for sure. Tom is fantastic so to Adarain his philosophy is based on science and biomechanics and it works and is followed by the Jamacians as a model with some other stuff as well, Loren’s stuff is also good but not as biomechanically based but still useful, a mixture of both is ideal. Just because they are old it doesn’t mean they are outdated
adarain
I can understand where you come from. i’ve seen coaches on the mid major level take athletes from 10.8 to 10.1. I think thats impressive and alot of what they are doing is in complete contradictory of what tellez says. Alot of thes guys are doing ALOT of basic strength training and getting their sprinters strong then making them powerful. But the meet of the program are the strong slow movements that alot of these gurus shun. I honestly think they get the best athletes and the world, athletes that would run fast no matter who their coach is.
Check mid major conferences with coaches that have 4 full scholarships to split up amongst a team which as a result allows them to only recruit ok athletes. These coaches are beating the clemsons, georgia tech etc.. These are the coaches I ask questions about training because we are in the same boat.