The Best Tips For Teaching Kids How to Hurdle

Links to 9 Posts That Will Help You Teach Kids How to Hurdle

Below are links to a collection of posts, that when combined, add up to provide a very handy addition to your hurdles coaching toolkit.

Overview

How to Teach Young Athletes to Hurdle

Coach kids to hurdle in 4 simple steps.

Read the Full Post

Getting Started

Hurdles: How to Get Young Athletes Started 

How to use mini hurdles when coaching young athletes.

Read the full post

Running to the First Hurdle

How to Put Your Best Foot Forward in the Hurdles

Stop young athletes stuttering to the first hurdle.

Read the full post
Hurdles 2Photo Credit: domeckopol from CCO

Hurdle Clearance

How to Get Kids Lower Over the Hurdles

Three tips to help kids stop “jumping” hurdles.

Read the full post

Trail Leg

Cue Hurdlers to “Pop the Balloon” and See Terrific Results

A trail leg cue to use when coaching young athletes.

Read the Full Post

Running Between the Hurdles

How to Help Kids Run Faster Between the Hurdles

Tips for transitioning kids to fewer strides between the hurdles

Read the full post
Hurdles 4Photo Credit: domeckopol from CCO

Common Errors

10 Biggest Mistakes Young Athletes Make in the Hurdles

Look out for these common hurdling errors when coaching young athletes.

Read the full post

Circular Hurdles

5 Top Tips For Effective Coaching of the Circular Hurdles

Ideas for coaching the 200, 300 & 400m hurdles.

Read the full post

Hurdles Game

Games That Kids Love: The Hurdles Shuttle Relay

Try this fun hurdles game with young athletes.

Read the full post
Hurdles - BlogPhoto Credit: domeckopol from CCO

I would love to know if any of these ideas work for you!

Let me know by leaving a reply/comment or by using the contact details below. I would also love to hear if you can add any further ideas to those that are presented above.


If this post helped you please take a moment to help others by sharing it on social media. If you want to learn more I encourage you to leave questions and comments or contact me directly.


Darren Wensor is a sports development professional, coach educator, specialist coach of young athletes, and founder of the blog coachingyoungathletes.com. Learn more about him here and connect with him on TwitterFacebookLinkedin, or via email. Check out Coaching Young Athletes on YouTube, the Coaching Young Athletes podcast, and the Coaching Young Athletes E-Book Series.

Click here to subscribe for free to the Coaching Young Athletes email list and receive a complimentary mini e-book!

Do you want that little bit extra? Learn about Coaching Young Athletes membership HERE.

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Advertisement
Tagged ,

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

%d bloggers like this: