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Reac-Time - Just How Fast Is Your Start? Nike Sprint Summit offers athletes
a chance to figure that out in Maryland Prep Indoor Meet in mid-March
For Further Information Contact:
Joy Kamani [email protected]
Cedric Walker [email protected]
http://www.nationalscholastic.org
February 19, 2003
Just How FAST Is Your Start?
Nike Sprint Summit offers athletes an opportunity to
learn how quick they are out of the blocks.
The presenters of the Nike Indoor Championships
promised earlier this year that their inaugural Nike
Sprint Summit would be the benchmark of sprint clinics
for the future. Today, they made good on that promise
with the announcement that FinishLynx" System
Developers, Inc. will not only showcase its ReacTime"
system at the Summit but will also devote
approximately an hour to testing the reaction time of
clinic participants!
In making the announcement, Clinic Coordinator, Cedric
Walker, said that the ReacTime" system is one of the
most critical pieces of technology available to
coaches today. "The sprint start makes or breaks the
race," he said. "How often have you seen athletes lose
because they were left in the blocks? It's the first
thing we look for when there is an unexpected result
at the finish line. Over the shorter distances,
especially indoors, getting out can mean the
difference between first and second."
Giles Norton, Director of Corporate Communication at
FinishLynx Developers, Inc. will be on hand to first
demonstrate the inner workings of the system. "I'm
bringing a two lane training system," he said. "That's
two ReacTime" units with built in audio, two sets of
photo-eyes for measuring time-to-distance, and a
computer projection unit so that we can display the
graphs on a projection screen for people to look at."
Following the initial demonstration, Norton and
assistants will put as many sprint athletes through
the system as possible producing a graph showing their
reaction time. "They'll be able to see the drive off
of both legs and learn whether they're driving
straight out with a single push or two," Norton
continued. "This one push or two is referred to as
having one hump or two based on the graph drawn by the
computer attached to the blocks."
But does the data produced by ReacTime" actually help
an athlete produce the ideal fast start? Norton says
it can. "Athletes using the system to train can
definitely improve their start," he said. "An
individual ReacTime" module can be used to record and
display an athlete's gun-to-motion times to an
accuracy of 1/1000th of a second."
FinishLynx defines FAST as:
* Fast initial reaction time.
* Acceleration that is explosive.
* Short time in contact with the blocks
* Transitioning rapidly into running phase
Just how FAST are you? If you are an athlete
registered for the Nike Indoor Championships your
admission to the Nike Sprint Summit is free! To have
your reaction time tested, however, you must be
accompanied by your coach. Admission to the Nike
Sprint Summit for coaches, parents and athletes not
registered to compete at the NIC is just $10.00.! The
Summit starts at 6:30p.m. on Friday, March 14, 2003 on
the track at the Prince George Sports and Learning
Center, Landover, Maryland. Plan on arriving on time
as ReacTime" testing will be done only until 7:30 p.m.
and so will be available to a limited number of
athletes. Competition in the Nike Indoor Championships
will start on Saturday, March 15th at 9:00 a.m. and
run until Sunday afternoon.
If you'd like to learn more information about the
ReacTime" system go to
http://www.finishlynx.com/common/navigation/products/main_page/reactime_main.htm
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