Gillick Changes Coach

thirtyfoot

So Gillick has made a huge step and gamble it must be said in moving to Lance Brauman in Florida. With London only 2 winters away he had to move now if he was ever going to move. While moving coach has many risks, Brauman is a top coach with Tyson Gay on his roster. Jason Smyth is also there. To me it shows his ambition. He wants a medal in London instead of just a final.

ecoli

thirtyfoot wrote: »

So Gillick has made a huge step and gamble it must be said in moving to Lance Brauman in Florida. With London only 2 winters away he had to move now if he was ever going to move. While moving coach has many risks, Brauman is a top coach with Tyson Gay on his roster. Jason Smyth is also there. To me it shows his ambition. He wants a medal in London instead of just a final.

Could also be a signal of intent for Gay moving up to the four after some decent performances in early season there was talk of him maybe makin a switch. Will definitely be interesting to see how this develops over the next year or two

notsofast

thirtyfoot wrote: »

So Gillick has made a huge step and gamble it must be said in moving to Lance Brauman in Florida. With London only 2 winters away he had to move now if he was ever going to move. While moving coach has many risks, Brauman is a top coach with Tyson Gay on his roster. Jason Smyth is also there. To me it shows his ambition. He wants a medal in London instead of just a final.

Fair play and best of luck to him. He's changed out of his comfort zone before with great results, lets hope it's the same this time. As thirtyfoot says, it's now or never.

NickDrake

Controversial coach to say the least. Not sure about these american sprinter groups.

myflipflops

This will mean a change of agent too. I sensed a certain amount of frustration from his blog this summer that he was struggling to get into the really top races in the lead up to the Europeans.

Credit to Nick Dakin for his work with Gillick. He arrived in Loughborough a young 45.5ish athlete and has left a consistent 44.8ish athlete. Let's hope he can step up another level.

shels4ever

myflipflops wrote: »

This will mean a change of agent too. I sensed a certain amount of frustration from his blog this summer that he was struggling to get into the really top races in the lead up to the Europeans.

Credit to Nick Dakin for his work with Gillick. He arrived in Loughborough a young 45.5ish athlete and has left a consistent 44.8ish athlete. Let's hope he can step up another level.

Does Brauman not have a few 400h guys on his book too? Could be wrong but think I seen some footage of a group he was coaching a while back.

myflipflops

shels4ever wrote: »

Does Brauman not have a few 400h guys on his book too? Could be wrong but think I seen some footage of a group he was coaching a while back.

I really don't know. Despite coaching Gay, he wasn't a coach I was familiar with at all until I read Jason Smyth went to him.

I don't really see Gillick trying the hurdles to be honest.

Rineanna

Interesting to see that Gillick has decided to move to Orlando to work with Lance Brauman (coach of Tyson Gay). I hope it pays off for him, as I'm sure it was a tough decision to make.

David Gillick is to leave his training base in Loughborough University in England and move permanently to Orlando, Florida to work with Lance Brauman, coach to American sprinter Tyson Gay, amongst others. It’s a bold and significant move designed to improve his prospects at the 2012 London Olympics, although Gillick admits it was a difficult decision.

“It’s not really a direct result of the way the summer ended,” says Gillick, who ran three sub-45 second 400 metres this summer, but was ultimately disappointed by his sixth place finish at the European Championships in Barcelona.

“I was very happy with Nick Dakin as my coach at Loughborough and the progress I made under him for the last four years, but at the same time I felt maybe I needed a change, to freshen things up, and make sure again that I leave no stone unturned in the build-up to London.

http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=15723

Pisco Sour

NickDrake wrote: »

Controversial coach to say the least. Not sure about these american sprinter groups.

Why so?

ecoli

04072511 wrote: »

Why so?

http://www.cstv.com/sports/c-track/stories/071206aah.html

Like Gay, the World 100 and 200m champion, Campbell was in Osaka while their coach, Lance Brauman, was in prison on fraud charges. According to Campbell, Brauman continued to set her sessions, coaching by telephone. At the World Championships, Omar Brown, the Commonwealth 200m champion and her fiancé at the time would oversee her workouts. Now Campbell trains under Brauman in Orlando, Florida. Of her relationship with her coach, Campbell said: “I have been working with him for a long time, since my junior college days, so it is a long relationship. He is a great coach and we get along well. His workouts really work for me.

http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid=47130.html

dna_leri

Gillick was on radio1 at about 715, good interview. Talked about being in same squad as Rooney, Brauman's record (including slammer) and also about potentially improving his 200m time as a motivation for moving.
Sounds like euro indoors are still in his plans if coach agrees, with worlds the main target in 2011.

myflipflops

dna_leri wrote: »

Talked about being in same squad as Rooney.

What did he say about this? I thought Rooney could be a factor.

dna_leri

myflipflops wrote: »

What did he say about this? I thought Rooney could be a factor.

Don't have the exact quotes, but he was clear that Nick Dakin never treated him any different from Rooney. I got the impression that maybe some of the support team did. He did mention that he did not have access to all the resources there that the UK athletes did and that seemed to be a slight grievance.

The overall impression I got was that improving his speed, without compromising strength was his biggest motivation but with a few other background things contributing. I think maybe he also decided that he just needed to do something different, a change as good as a rest etc.

dna_leri

Extended version of the interview on the rte website:
http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2010/pc/pod-v-13101016m24ssportatsevengillick.mp3