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An athlete cannot move in a way their body won’t allow. 🏃♂️
We can’t expect Usain Bolt to run exactly like Su Bingtian. And we cannot expect Su Bingtian to run exactly like Christian Coleman.
While they are members of one of the world’s most-exclusive clubs [they are 3 of only 24 humans to ever run under 9.85 in the 100m], they move in very different ways – and as coaches, this is one of our most-important jobs: to understand these ways, so we can know how to help them improve.
If we don’t know an athlete’s most-natural and most-effective sprinting strategy, how do we know where their gaps are? How do we know which buttons to push in our training prescription? How do we know how to set up their technical model? 🔧
The answer is “we don’t … we are just guessing”. 🤷♂️
Which is exactly what we have done for decades – where athletes and coaches either copy the mechanics of the best in the world, or [what the more scientific coaches do] apply a single “most-optimal” model to everyone.
As a community, it is imperative we come to grips with two truths:
There is no single 'optimal' sprinting technique that works for everyone. Every athlete is different, and they will all use different strategies.
Different athletes can achieve the same sprint performance using different movement strategies.
Does this mean it's a free-for-all?
No! ❌
Despite no single precise technical model existing for all, there are clear general aspects of technique that are fundamental and translatable across all athletes in how they underpin the mechanical objectives of high sprinting performance.
😀 FREE RESOURCE
Learn about the ALTIS Guidelines for Sprinting with our free ebook: The ALTIS Kinogram Method.
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07/22/2026
"Sometimes rehabilitation doesn't fail. Sometimes we simply stop asking enough questions." — Dan Pfaff
This was one of the standout moments from one of our Structured Exchanges at the 2026 ALTIS Speed Summit, where Dan Pfaff joined Molly Binetti and John Griffin to tackle a question every performance team will eventually face:
➡️ When short-term pressure to perform and long-term athlete health are in direct conflict, how do you make the right decision?
Rather than focusing on protocols or timelines, the discussion centred on decision-making.
Early in rehabilitation, assessment is often comprehensive. But as athletes move closer to competition—when the demands become more complex and less predictable—we often begin asking fewer questions, precisely when we should be asking more.
The conversation explored why return to play is never the responsibility of one department alone. It requires trust, transparency and collaboration between medical, coaching and performance staff, with every decision centred on the athlete rather than the calendar.
There are rarely perfect answers.
There are simply better conversations, better collaboration, and better-informed decisions.
The full Structured Exchange is included in the 2026 ALTIS Speed Summit Digital Package, alongside every keynote, panel discussion and recorded practical session from this year's event.
📽️ Get the Speed Summit Digital Package
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As always, a huge thanks to our awesome sponsors for making this event happen.
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USR
Twelve Achilles ruptures tracked this fall.
Twelve athletes who reported the same early warning: tension, pain, and irritation through the gastroc–soleus complex.
Signals show up long before the injury. The challenge is noticing what the athlete’s lower leg is telling you and understanding how that information fits into the bigger movement picture.
This is the work of a trained coaching eye.
The next Coaching Eye cohort with Dan Pfaff begins September 5th. If you want to improve how you read risk, interpret movement, and intervene with confidence, this is where to start.
If you want to build that clarity, the Coaching Eye Program with Dan Pfaff walks you through how to study movement and identify the patterns that matter for both performance and injury risk.
All the details: https://loom.ly/U2DdtRM
07/17/2026
The ALTIS MSc in Strength, Conditioning & Coaching was designed around the realities of coaching and performance.
We include a research component - because evidence literacy matters for serious coaches.
But we don't dedicate a third of a program to it.
The balance is different here, because the goal is different.
Built inside high performance sport and delivered by experienced practitioners, the program centers applied problem solving, communication, decision making, and real-world coaching application.
You learn alongside an international network of coaches while earning a fully validated MSc grounded in the environments you actually work in.
Applications for the September 2026 intake are now open.
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