DRILL #1: LAND FOOT UNDER BODY
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The easiest cue for this is “Fast Feet”. At first this might feel confusing because fast feet does not necessarily mean fast running. Remember, good form should work regardless of speed.
Think of it like this: if you can jog in place, you can jog while moving, right?
Same applies to “Fast Feet”.
If you’re used to over striding - in order to maintain the same pace with smaller steps, you need to take more steps in the same amount of time.
AKA faster feet.
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DRILL #2: FEEL THE FORWARD LEAN
Once you’ve got a feel for taking smaller and faster steps, it’s time to add forward lean.
The first few times you try this, you’re gonna feel like falling.
Your natural instinct will be to tense up and reach out with your foot which is the opposite of what we want to be doing.
This is why rat...
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DRILL #3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER
Now it’s time to combine fast feet with forward lean to start running. Rather than focusing on your cues, remember those drills we practiced and think of flowing from one into the next.
As you get more comfortable with this drill, you can experiment with more or less forward lean to run at diffe...
