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in fearless pushkin leader malcolm

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gladwell the new podcast

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called legacy of speed

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legacy of speed follows the transformation

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a san jose state track program in the nineteen

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sixties which started out

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as second tier state college no one

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outside of california that ever heard of

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quickly became known as the home to speed

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city one coaches guidance

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and unconventional techniques launched the careers

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the fastest sprinters of the day you

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know from season two of against the rules i

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love stories about coaches and this

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one yours truly great malcolm

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gladwell a competitive runner himself

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an impressive when traces the journeys

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of those sprinters went on to ignite

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a boycott movement and protests the nineteen

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sixty eight summer olympics now

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can talk to olympic sports journalists

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performance coaches and document areas then

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you'll hear from some the best runners of all time

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tommy smith john carlos and leon and the

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story about athletes who dare to take stand

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the mentors who made them fast enough and

2:14

brave enough the pave the way for

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sports activism we see today years

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episode one can follow the

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story by searching for legacy of speed wherever

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you get your podcast

2:26

nineteen sixty eight the summer

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olympic games are in mexico city

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the first time the games are truly

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a television ethical twice

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as many hours of coverage with new

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technology like instant replay

2:40

it's been broadcast live

2:42

around the world in color i

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want when the

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, states leads the olympics and metal

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awards and is just about supreme

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in the sprint races and demand

2:54

like tommy smith and john carlos

2:57

carlos smith john carlos to

2:59

the greatest sprinters of all times captured

3:02

in one of the most iconic images of

3:04

the twentieth the two , men

3:07

standing on platform each

3:09

with assist in here yesterday

3:12

they stood on the victory platform with

3:14

bowed heads wearing black socks

3:17

and gloves heads wearing black protest

3:27

i remember seeing this photo was a kid growing

3:29

up the nineteen seventies ,

3:31

who was obsessed with sports sports

3:33

even though i was much too young to understand

3:35

anything about the context for it for

3:38

, that was an act of transgress

3:42

open next five episodes i want

3:44

to tell you the story behind that

3:46

transgression how , two

3:48

men ended up on the victory send the

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struggles and triumphs because

3:53

in that moment half that moment ago

3:55

the way we think about sports and social

3:58

protest sifted for however

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in ways that we're still wrestling with today

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to extraordinary figures

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may said iconic moment possible one

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, winter and extensive tactician

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who reinvented what it meant to be a post

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the other sorry edwards fiery

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professors and black power activist

4:20

who dare to challenge that most

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sacred of american institute

4:26

here's the remarkable thing all

4:29

for those men those two runners

4:31

the professor and the couch the

4:33

same place a second

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tier state college that no

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one outside of northern california

4:40

and ever heard of then

4:42

as a state or i

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didn't know that can city

4:51

i'm not i'm grub well this is legacy

4:53

speed story , athletes

4:56

who dare to take stand and visionaries

4:58

who made them fast enough and bread

5:02

alone

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in

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the nineteen sixties silicon valley

5:13

was not yet called silicon valley that

5:16

, wouldn't come until the early nineteen

5:18

seventies seventies among the rolling

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hills and six as grove south of san

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francisco a hundred revolutions

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had already started to bubbles the

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microchip the beginnings the personal

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computer the computer bay

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area was wide open to innovation

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and reinvention and any wonder

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what a crazy idea about how to do things better

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and in the middle of that from and was commuter

5:42

school in downtown san jose and

5:45

jose state then

5:47

as a state was were coach name but

5:49

winter health court and but winter

5:52

is where the story begins but

5:54

was one of most important coaches of

5:56

the twentieth century he invented

5:58

modern sprinting with an unconventional

6:01

approach the has today become

6:03

dogma have you

6:05

ever watched the way the fastest man in history

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the jamaican splinter usain bolt glides

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down the track

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i know hold com i'm

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post you can credit but

6:22

winter for the way boat ramp

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the code the bud winter disciple

6:28

over his career but coached a

6:30

hundred and two all americans thirty

6:33

seven world record holders and

6:35

twenty olympians including

6:38

tommy smith and john carlos the to

6:40

sprinters who raise their loved this

6:42

in mexico city but athletes

6:45

so completely dominated sprinting

6:47

the people stopped calling the centers eighteen

6:49

by it's formal nickname the spartans

6:52

and just godspeed city there

6:54

was scrapper he grew up in poor

6:57

neighborhood in san francisco he

6:59

was right it by the zoo happy

7:01

winter buds daughter

7:04

winter was born lloyd see winter

7:06

in ninety know nine and grew up san

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francisco

7:10

his mom was

7:12

a spitfire irishwoman

7:14

and his father was a of darfur

7:16

and very quiet introvert

7:19

and he's lived on the poor side

7:21

so think it's way had such compassion

7:24

and compassion hard for people that didn't have money

7:26

it ended up u c berkeley the

7:28

studied psychology after

7:30

college coach football at

7:32

a high school and then junior college was

7:35

man of obsessions they didn't

7:37

just golf

7:38

he invented golf clubs that he swore

7:40

hit the ball further because you're

7:42

exposed to radiation the

7:45

didn't just fish he went fishing

7:47

around the world was unkempt

7:50

the human you want mismatch

7:52

patterns his clothes are often wrinkles

7:55

and he traveled stuffed suits

7:57

into duffel bag the only

7:59

thing they have so

8:00

or something down his shirt as

8:02

his but but when you pointed it out

8:04

he downstairs you know who cares it

8:07

just wasn't his priority

8:09

in nineteen forty one but took job

8:11

coaching track and freshman football

8:13

at san jose state

8:15

we see my job was i'm

8:17

somewhat absent and don't

8:19

see that with negativity a my heart

8:21

or anything but a his whole

8:23

life was about track and field

8:25

and and the guys we'd be sitting

8:28

there at the table dinner and all a

8:30

sudden my dad would get up and he would go over to

8:32

the side been start to practice like

8:34

the shot put okay now he wants to

8:36

tell them to turn has had this way and

8:38

and here we were in middle of tried to tell them a

8:40

story about what we did what school coach

8:43

that was teacher not screamer

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The thing that impressed me about but

8:48

he never raised his voice. This

8:50

is Ray Norton when it bites athletes

8:52

and never. Did I ever hear

8:54

him use profanity? That's pretty

8:57

unusual for Coach by School

8:59

coaches all they did. of good

9:01

causes it was used

9:04

i didn't look like a traditional coach he

9:06

didn't sound like a traditional codes and

9:08

that was all part of charm

9:11

note in remembers the first time he met but

9:13

he was still in high school he and some

9:15

of his friends who also ran went to attract

9:18

me the university of california berkeley the

9:20

annual showdown between the big ten

9:22

and the conference that would become the pac twelve

9:26

first of we snuck into place and we

9:29

sit quietly hoping nobody

9:31

notices you know norton

9:34

and his friends all ran track for their high

9:36

school teams school teams of them are pretty

9:39

fast but none them expected

9:41

to be recruited by the college's at disney

9:43

it's nineteen fifty five not

9:45

too many the big track schools were

9:47

interested in black sprinters

9:51

we watch that the big boys

9:53

the collegiate guys and then when

9:55

they left we can have eased

9:57

down and track and the

9:59

start mark they started

10:01

to raise

10:06

also be there obviously and there were several

10:08

coaches in stands financing

10:11

all , them less except one one

10:15

one was but was and

10:17

bud walk from

10:19

the bleachers there were the starting blocks

10:23

oh and we say oh god we've been bus

10:25

that they're going to throw us outta here in

10:28

you want real slow and

10:30

then and then front me and he

10:32

said do you know you could be the world's fastest

10:34

human

10:38

know where o k our

10:42

the me when the fast die young star

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bucks where he was sentenced to

10:47

, to the high school does the beep beep beep

10:49

that god what suits must

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build suffered

10:54

at the time note and had no idea

10:56

what buds saw him it wasn't

10:58

until he went san jose state that

11:01

he understood that bud had turned the science

11:03

of sprinting on it's head

11:05

was six three sprint is like by

11:07

be five nine five zero what

11:09

he saw his that had a natural

11:11

relaxation moon i did

11:13

swinging when read the

11:16

other given the could teach

11:18

me though he likes sumo and

11:20

can handle the relaxation

11:22

mode

11:24

shorthand for the complex set

11:26

ideas at the heart of buds philosophy

11:30

coaches for generations had stressed

11:32

the visible application of effort

11:34

intensity the grimacing tightly

11:36

coiled runner passing and snorting

11:38

down tracks like a runaway plow horse

11:41

work harder push push push what

11:45

was what if i was entirely

11:47

backwards splinter

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should be gliding

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norton joined by the team in nineteen fifty

11:55

six on scholarship the would

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become star the first real star

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the so called speed city era as

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centers a state

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winter her his leg of moment when

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he first arrived at san jose state he

13:22

sat in sat class taught by dorothy

13:25

hazeltine yates it was

13:27

about the psychology of fighter pilots

13:29

and enormously important subject at the start

13:31

of over two pilots , suffering

13:34

from nervous exhaustion burnout breakdowns

13:37

were making fatal errors in combat

13:39

because of the enormous stress they were under

13:42

in the class but learned about new approach

13:45

to tackling the problem teaching

13:47

pilots relaxation techniques

13:51

i'd watched as the techniques replied to boxes

13:53

at san jose state this is

13:55

what but wrote in his nineteen eighty one

13:57

book relax and when the

14:00

results proved not only gratifying

14:02

in some cases they were amazing to

14:04

us green inexperienced

14:06

novices very soon so the cool

14:09

confident poise of champions they

14:12

know they boxers one every

14:14

thought that season some spectacular

14:20

the start of second world war but

14:22

enlisted in the navy and

14:24

got a chance to build them what he'd learned with yates

14:26

his class at san jose it

14:28

was put in charge of a research study at flight

14:31

school in california looking at

14:33

relaxation training for cadets

14:36

it was the beginning of what would be a radical transformation

14:39

in the way we think about preparing people for

14:41

stressful jobs called

14:43

up doctor police have ravaged to get

14:45

a little one on one on relaxation techniques

14:48

the any pants muscle you have on

14:51

your body if is using oxygen

14:54

then you need other muscles to

14:57

been sort of prepped and alert

14:59

and ready to go

15:00

ran into the clinical psychologist who works

15:02

with lots of people in high stress jobs law

15:05

enforcement firefighters navy

15:07

seals pilots though

15:09

if your entire body is tense

15:12

you are going to be used of calories

15:14

and you're going to be using of oxygen for

15:16

instance chest masters burn

15:18

a tremendous amount of calories

15:21

playing chess and it's

15:23

because your brain uses so much

15:25

oxygen so if you are

15:27

thinking and hansen if your body is tense

15:29

you're tapping into your tank of energy

15:32

imagine how quickly you might drain that

15:34

tank of energy and dog site and

15:36

if you returned safely how would you managed

15:38

to get some sleep so could fight again

15:40

tomorrow the solution to

15:43

learn how to relax the

15:45

contain and control your stress

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inhale kill we

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breathing in stretch

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a little bit more the hi

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on the exhale then

16:05

you ready to go so

16:07

you're breathing controls your heart rate

16:10

your heart rate is your main indicator of

16:12

stress so when you get

16:14

stressed out your heart rate goes

16:16

up and once it goes past a

16:18

certain point it a sex your

16:21

motor skills you're fine motor skills

16:23

your memory and your ability

16:25

to perform

16:26

so whether you are

16:29

war in corporate setting or you're

16:31

an athlete you'd like your heart

16:33

rate to be in place where

16:35

you or harm but

16:37

alert

16:38

the flight school winter study involved

16:40

two hundred cadets for six

16:42

weeks they attended classes played

16:44

sports and took psychological tests

16:47

the cadets was split into two groups

16:50

one was control group the other group

16:52

learned relaxation techniques but

16:55

read about the outcome his book the

16:58

relaxation group made more significant

17:01

and even spectacular progress

17:03

the greatest improvement by the relaxation

17:06

group was demonstrated in courses

17:08

that involved the most pressure

17:13

when the war was over the went back

17:15

to san jose state that's when

17:17

he realized the relaxation

17:19

techniques could help pilots really

17:22

they could also helps printers dr

17:25

believe of ranch again

17:27

if you are able

17:29

to

17:30

get yourself to breed well mechanically

17:32

meaning die from adequate and now you

17:34

train those muscles separate

17:36

from your sport is actually

17:39

affects your times it delays

17:41

fatigue the

17:43

problem at the heart of sprinters task

17:45

was pressure they weren't running

17:48

marathon where they had two hours to settle

17:50

in and adjust and make up for

17:52

mistakes and misjudgments hundred

17:54

to spread is ten seconds you

17:57

did meters is twenty seconds

17:59

the must react instantly

18:01

to the guns run a flawless race

18:04

extract every ounce of speed from their

18:06

bodies over and impossibly

18:08

compress timeframe splinter

18:11

settling into the blocks before race was

18:13

under an extraordinary potentially

18:15

debilitating amount pressure

18:17

and the bodies untrained response to that

18:19

pressure makes the runner slower

18:22

that faster i

18:24

realized he needed to fix

18:26

that problem that idea seems

18:29

common sense to our years today the

18:31

came from but

18:33

he was really visionary and understanding

18:35

how importance relax station

18:37

was to performance quick

18:39

about it in the forties fifties or sixties

18:41

what you are hearing was buckle up

18:44

right maybe a little bit later was no

18:46

pain no gain was pull

18:48

yourself up by your bootstraps so

18:50

that he was saying max to perform

18:53

better was and

18:55

stick because it work

18:58

re note and and other athletes on track team

19:00

remember bud and his phrases

19:03

how you explain to

19:05

a sprinter running

19:07

full speed relax

19:10

well you teach

19:12

them to relax

19:15

by using certain term

19:17

analysis monsters really they

19:19

were designed keep parts of your body relaxed

19:22

if you ran for bud a couple of them

19:25

were burned into your brain

19:29

those

19:29

hands you never clinics your face

19:31

when you're running loose jill was

19:34

a you have to open your mouth but

19:36

just relax to demonstrate the

19:38

power of loose hands discharged

19:41

heard would have is at least when it tried

19:43

straining with every time

19:52

and it hadn't been relaxed through

19:55

hands on flinched their faces

19:57

sagging with what's that called

20:08

i

20:15

a pack with tommy smith kind of greatest

20:18

of all birds athletes with

20:21

it difficult to master some of the things he

20:23

was talking about todo with lot of things

20:25

as he put into a

20:27

process that the we

20:30

had to understand i knew

20:32

was so very difficult

20:34

time for semester

20:36

the usage of the muscles to the

20:38

maximum without tensing

20:40

up without overdoing

20:43

it to the process of too much

20:45

is not doing too little is

20:47

just as bad

20:49

just like the navy to deaths but

20:51

athletes also had do visualization

20:53

exercises this has been talker

20:55

a distance runner before

20:57

each competition the

21:00

would always call us in friday

21:02

night

21:04

the night before the event and

21:07

then then have

21:09

us sit in room

21:13

turn the lights up and

21:15

then we would just sit there and there would

21:17

just talk just through

21:21

the first lap this

21:24

is the second lap

21:26

and so

21:29

he has not

21:31

, strategize

21:33

but he has seen ourselves

21:36

this the night before

21:42

the are we gonna a nuisance but as

21:45

much as of us got

21:48

into i see it got

21:50

into i hear

21:55

that also ran his athletes methodically

21:58

through drills he created the

22:00

hi ni exercise the runner

22:02

marches up and down the tracks driving

22:04

one day after the other high into the

22:06

air in an exaggerated slow

22:09

motion version of running that's

22:11

real basic of how sprinters wrong dr

22:13

peter way and studies the bio mechanics of

22:15

sprinting at the locomotor performance

22:18

laboratory a southern methodist

22:20

university it's directly

22:22

connected to how forcefully

22:24

the sprinters hit the ground so if you watch a marathon

22:26

iran did they don't run that way to

22:28

have kind of a shuffling gates the

22:30

sprinters punch to frack with their limb

22:33

to the high new lifted lauzon the space to get the

22:35

high velocity and then then stop it's like

22:37

delivering a punch to ground the

22:39

more force sprinter can deliver with that leg

22:41

punch the faster they get

22:43

off the ground which leads to a longer

22:46

more efficient tried all

22:48

of the difference in how fast they can run

22:50

all of the force difference it's happens during

22:52

that initial impact period so

22:54

it's essential that they get the jaime list and

22:56

they execute the high velocity and quick

22:58

stop that's the entire secrets right

23:00

there the innovations

23:02

the tinkering the rethinking the search

23:05

for the slightest edge never

23:10

realize as and this is the first

23:12

genes or emits a she's mine was

23:14

busy of how to make us run

23:16

faster that's the evans

23:19

another bugs greatest sprinters

23:21

i remember eve the his okay why to give

23:23

me yours is shorts and

23:27

he punch holes

23:29

in it and the back part of and so the way through

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the wind consoles to them better

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these okay okay i do me a rather give me

23:36

the spikes out your shoes we took us by sending

23:39

them as he would sit on like

23:41

pyramid so that the

23:43

report the didn't have more push

23:45

off he was always think of ways

23:48

to take off attempts are one hundred

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that the heart of the bud winter revolution

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is that saw his role as cultivating

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the talent of his athletes he took

25:11

rock clay and molded that

25:14

is not how coaches saw their role in those

25:16

years the traditional coach exploited

25:19

town thanks you between cultivation

25:22

and exploitation is crucial

25:24

coaches of that era were motivators

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recruiters tacticians coaches

25:30

took what they were given and put to

25:32

use fide was

25:35

one of first modern coaches who understood

25:37

that a coach's job was to manufacture

25:40

elite performance systematically

25:42

and methodically that's separate

25:44

it into existence the

25:46

most successful of the coaches of the contemporary

25:49

age the about check and football

25:51

phil jackson and pat summitt and basketball

25:54

or in many ways buds disciples

25:57

coach wins again and again in

25:59

different places and with different athletes

26:01

it means they've crossed the line from

26:03

exploitation to cultivation right

26:07

the profit of that movement

26:11

the held coaching clinics nonstop

26:14

he wrote a how to manual so you want

26:16

to be sprinter that became must read

26:18

for coaches and athletes alike in

26:21

it to cartoon sprinters help

26:23

demonstrate the right way and runway

26:25

to execute buds techniques the

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names were jack kemp and juncture

26:31

the coach is a bud like singer named

26:33

eager beaver at

26:35

, computer he

26:37

eventually made eventually fifteen minute instructional film

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that he shot at san jose state coach

26:42

winter believes that the sprinters should undergo a

26:44

special drilled with members of buds

26:46

team appeared in the film which was called sprinting

26:49

with but winter mom action is powerful

26:52

but it was also relaxed run

26:55

thinks of driving his elbows the

26:57

hands are loose re norton

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was his first major recruit in

27:02

nineteen fifty eight note and tied

27:04

the world record for the hundred yard dash with

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time of nine point three seconds

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the only other americans had held that record

27:11

were from big schools like us see and

27:13

co that

27:15

same year but added another start

27:18

to his team this one was shorter and

27:20

stock your a more traditional looking

27:22

sprinter the pointer with

27:24

high school state champion from pasadena

27:26

who had his heart set on usa he

27:29

went to junior college trying to study

27:31

his way onto the u s c track team meanwhile

27:34

but kept sending a bladders that

27:36

kind of real main effect of some attitude

27:39

destitute there's started pay

27:41

attention to san jose state to

27:43

you crowd some you know barrier

27:47

all around two birds with promote have

27:49

asthma attack me and

27:52

we got an invitation to go to the penn relays

27:54

why do you know what our they

27:56

never get back is a my life

27:59

the penn relays

28:00

the philadelphia or the oldest track and field

28:02

events in the united states massive

28:04

international carnival track and field

28:06

to realize where

28:10

we want all the stuff

28:12

baggies and people back there

28:14

they had heard sounds a they these the pronounces

28:17

and josie the girl

28:19

says using they get it was a blackout

28:22

because we're go uniforms and most

28:25

of kids were african americans that

28:28

would idea that have

28:30

stayed on man

28:31

that was doing all of this with a miniscule budget

28:34

at say cause that when he arrived didn't

28:36

even have dormitories the

28:38

low beating care staff

28:44

know anybody who's be

28:46

because he failed to like poor people

28:48

going up against the rich people and

28:50

, norton he was beating almost everyone

28:54

fifty nine was my biggest year

28:56

at that time i yelled the world record for

28:58

the hundred yards two hundred

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and twenty yards around occurs the

29:03

hundred meters and the

29:06

, hundred meters have all those records

29:08

one time and i also

29:11

went undefeated and other moves

29:13

period for two years i

29:15

beat them all everybody

29:18

was no nineteen sixty norton

29:20

have been going strong for almost two years

29:22

everyone thought he would win big at the room

29:24

olympics that year but then just

29:27

before the games then suffered freak

29:29

injury he

29:31

made the high jumper john thomas

29:33

played prank into a snake

29:35

at that

29:37

was a real they do the little ones but

29:39

it was you know done new i do do snakes

29:41

still though i jumped out

29:43

of bed hurdles position and snap

29:46

my back though part of my bet

29:48

it's received the nerve this is three

29:50

weeks before the olympic games no

29:53

feeling in my legs good

29:56

luck didn't run in any

29:58

to that meets i couldn't i

30:00

didn't run anymore until

30:03

the olympic games the died

30:05

probably lost ninety percent of my conditioning

30:08

i couldn't sleep good

30:11

e l assume paths but

30:13

northern didn't want give up his chance at the olympics

30:16

i just decided that i still

30:18

to win and nobody can be me even

30:20

though couldn't walk three weeks before that

30:23

note made it to the finals of hundred meters

30:26

and a two hundred meters at the olympics but

30:28

he finished dead last any box

30:30

to baton pass in a for by one hundred me to

30:32

relate leading to a disqualification

30:35

the meltdown dinesh

30:38

the us hadn't lost the men's hundred meters

30:40

since nineteen twenty eight the

30:43

even though i ran the be honest with you

30:49

only few people knew about his injury one

30:52

of them was bad and

30:54

said he begged his coach not to reveal

30:56

the truth

30:57

i'm in wonder about that door my doors

30:59

ovaries bird to see because he ever in

31:02

he knows it okay so

31:04

i say but as a you know

31:06

i've drafted i'm going play football

31:08

after the olympics this

31:11

is i know chair be going to and

31:13

as it out warm know i'm her

31:15

norton says bud didn't want to lie the

31:18

up you're not that's

31:20

my nerves my back is killing

31:22

me all you got saved my nerves

31:25

do that go been so low as as

31:27

he didn't do it but our these the with

31:29

a big budget damaged goods to them

31:31

playing football soon as i did back

31:33

out of the olympics

31:35

while bud would say after norton's loss

31:38

was that re norton was trying too hard

31:40

and that's the worst thing or hundred can do which

31:43

was the truth as far as bad winter

31:45

was concerned speed city

31:47

have been stopped short in it's first grade

31:50

international test

31:52

remember games to me whereas at

31:54

one say inspiring

31:58

exciting

32:00

everything horrible experience

32:03

has been in nineteen sixty sweets

32:05

giving the opening remarks at sports symposium

32:08

hosted by san jose state there

32:10

is fine because once again i point out

32:12

that we must do in united states if we're going

32:14

maintain our sport supremacy

32:18

the water will regret it pointed out that maybe

32:20

on the field for the one common ground upon

32:22

which nations the world can get together and

32:25

, harmful because what happened rain autonomous

32:27

are losing the sprint supremacy supremacy

32:30

season changing zoos the necessary

32:33

to the scenes zones chinese

32:36

have and done freak

32:38

injury from a think ten wrong

32:41

the yeah

32:45

that

32:46

he and his runners would get another

32:48

chance in this every

32:50

not again says it's heroes both

32:53

athletes and coaches and

32:55

perhaps only this time speed

32:57

city would get swept up in another digger

32:59

revolution across america the

33:01

, sixties would bring rise protests

33:03

violence political assassinations

33:06

and organized marches of civil rights movement

33:09

and here was here young black men who

33:11

had already been liberated from one orthodoxy

33:14

have been taught com and

33:16

self possession and preparation

33:19

could unleash extraordinary performance

33:22

the sprinter the speed city would become famous

33:25

and a question would be asked of them that had never

33:27

really been asked athletes before what

33:30

will you make your position you

33:32

will stand on a plastic what

33:35

will you do once you there know

33:39

next episode the athletes of speed

33:41

city when acclaim and breaks world

33:43

records that off

33:45

the track a struggle to make ends

33:48

meet

33:50

after discuss thrower objects

33:52

to the treatment of like athletes on campus

33:54

is hearts the movement that will become one

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