Sunday, April 22, 2007

Sprinting videos

Dear P4 to P6 Green house members,
look at this video.

Can you see the way his feet moves? Only the ball of his feet is touching the ground. Also, look at the way his hands swing. The hands are propelling him forward. Lastly, check out when the sprinter finishes the race. He is at the fastest speed at the finishing line and that's why he takes some time to slow down.

Points to note
i) feet movement
ii) Hands movement
iii) Don't slow down at the end (for the last runner of your respective races)



Here is another video about the the speed the athletes are at the finishing line at a 60m hurdles race. They are so fast that a wall is needed to slow them down.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The women in the hurdles race, it seems like they didn't jump but in fact stretch their legs and overcome the hurdle...............

Anonymous said...

Overcame the hurdle? It seems that way only. When you go to secondary school, you will have the opportunity to practice. We are however, using much lower hurdles. The hurdles in the video are olympic standard sizes!

Well are the videos useful? I've been telling these pointers right?

Anonymous said...

I felt that these videos are useful for us but I don't think the woman in the hurdles race, jump just because they stretch their legs and overcome the hurdle. As for the sprinting man, I could see that his toes are down on the ground while his heels are above and his hands bck and forth. Well, I think that I had enjoyed these movies!!!

Anonymous said...

Thanks! these videos are very interesting! All the runners seem to run only on the ball of their feet!

Anonymous said...

hi mr dass,can the videos be posted to our class blog?

Anonymous said...

I doubt we can run as fast as them! They are practically FLYING!!!

Anonymous said...

Dear Yi Xuan, Never you doubt! I believe that you can be as fast as them.

Mavis, this video is especially for the green house pupils. You can alwasy share the link with our classmates. Cheers!