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article 4 March 2025

Athletics Lesson: Using Starting Blocks

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The starting blocks are an important tool for sprinters, allowing them to apply horizontal force during the start. Students will use a skipping-based warm up to develop the fundamental movement skills of acceleration and learn how to correctly position and accelerate from starting blocks.

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Martin Brockman

Director of Performance Pathways

Martin Brockman is Director of Brockman Athletics, providing teacher training and track and field teaching resources for schools around the world. Representing Great Britain in the decathlon for almost a decade, Martin achieved a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Dehli, 2010. On retiring from his international career, he moved to the world-leading Aspire Academy in Qatar as the Head of Athlete Development where he designed and implemented the academy athletics program from talent identification through to international athletics.

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