Carl's Blog

Martial arts to help sprint

Carl Brewer — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:29:53 -0500

http://maaml.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/ideas-for-visualisations.html - have a read. For us, as sprinters, we're not THAT dissimilar to martial artists. We have skills that we need to master, moves and countermoves that use those skills, and then "tactics" which is essentially the application of the right moves at the right times. Very similar to martial arts. I think we can learn a lot from them.

Another nutritionalist to check out

Carl Brewer — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:09:53 -0500

http://thenaturalnutritionist.com.au/

Well worth a look. I'm trying to see if getting her to give us a talk is feasible.

Women's keirin!

Carl Brewer — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:08:29 -0500

This is a really good thing!

Thank you Nathan

Carl Brewer — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:54:57 -0500

Nathan Larkin worked with aboc for some years as a coach, but has now moved on to studying art at university and hasn't the time to coach any more riders. I wish Nathan the very best of luck at uni and in the future with his art and photography. Nathan's a top guy and a good friend and a talented photographer with a great eye for a shot. He's contributed a lot to aboc and the culture we're doing our best to encourage, with honesty and integrity. Thank you big guy, everyone I know appreciates your contribution.

So now I need to find a coach to look after enduro riders as I am only doing sprinters. If you're keen, let me know. If you're doing a level 1 and want mentored hours etc, I am keen to help.

Quitting sugar

Carl Brewer — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:24:46 -0500

http://iquitsugar.com/

is very good! Check out her book... http://www.sarahwilson.com.au/i-quit-sugar-print-book/

A week (or so) in the life of

Carl Brewer — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:51:23 -0500

Let's start a week ago, why not, it's a nice place to start. Before this we had Oceanias, sprint camps etc ...

Wednesday - 11am-7pm at DISC, VSG training

Thursday - 3:30-7:30pm Kids in the powerhaus gym

Friday - 10am-2rpm VSG, 5pm-9:30pm BBN DISC training sessions

Sat - 7am-12:30ish - Vic junior titles ITT

Sun - 7am-4pm - Vic junior titles sprint & keirin, 4pm-7:30pm aboc sprint group

Mon - Day off, powerhaus CLOSED!!!

Tues - 7am-2pm - travel to Adelaide, 3pm-11pm NJTS R4 Adelaide

Wed - 4:45am - 9am travel home from Adelaide, 11am-7:30pm VSG at DISC

Thur - 9am-12:30 DISC working bee, 1-2 visit IT client (make money to pay bills!) 3:30-7:30 powerhaus gym

Fri - morning SLEEP IN! 4pm-9:30pm BBN DISC

Sat - 11am-4pm VSG training, 4pm-6pm pack CV vans to go to Sydney for senior nationals

Sun - 6am? Drive to Dunc Grey velodrome (Sydney) for Senior Aust titles

Mon 'til um ... when're we back? Senior nationals, 18 hour days

Get back, get J17's ready for junior nationals in late Feb. Organise SSS R5. See wife?!

If I haven't returned your phonecalls lately ... I'm sorry!

Gears, again...

Carl Brewer — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:08:21 -0500

In the UK :

youth A u16..6.93m - ~7m, ~same as us, 1 year offset younger kids
youth B u14..6.45m - bigger than us
youth C u12..6.05m - bigger than us
youth D u10..5.40m - ~same
youth E u8..5.10m - do we have U8's?!

They're not falling apart, in fact, Le Poms seem to do pretty well ...

In the US (not so much a powerhouse anymore, but interesting all the same) :

17-18: Unrestricted
15-16: 6.78 meters (22'3")(48x15)
13-14: 6.36 meters (20'10.5")(48x16)
10-12: 6.00 meters (19’8”)(48x17)
For Juniors 16 and under who are competing in Championship team sprint, team pursuit, keirin, or Madison the 17-18 (unrestricted) gear limit applies.

I don't have the rules for other countries yet, watch this space ..

Big gears, big fears?

Carl Brewer — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:40:43 -0500

Not everyone's a fan of the 7m rollout for J17's. I've gone on to discuss this in the past. We now have our first lot of in competition times from Vic titles to look at. So let's have a look. I'm going to just look at sprint, I am not interested in the pursuits!

This year :

Event 3: JW17 Time Trial

2 Laps 500m Final - STANDINGS

1.	32	Brook RAMSHAW (CAR)	38.735
2.	31	Chloe BAGGS (BBN)	39.023	+0.28
3.	33	Brit JACKSON (BBN)	39.145	+0.41
4.	35	Jordyn HASSETT (BBN)	40.033	+1.29
5.	37	Emily DUNK (BWK)	41.310	+2.57
6.	36	Jamie GOODING (BBN)	41.909	+3.17
7.	41	Freya WICKENDEN (CAR)	42.000	+3.26
8.	34	Greta CURRAN (BWK)	42.063	+3.32
9.	38	Madison FITZGERALD (BBN)	42.637	+3.90

No new records. Reasonably close times.

Compare to last year

Courtney FIELD(CAR) 38.195
Emily APOLITO(BBN) 39.256 +1.06
Chloe BAGGS(BBN) 39.656 +1.46
Emma BILSTON(B-S) 40.629 +2.43
Zoe NICHOLSON(ART) 41.872 +3.67
Nicole CLARK(WNG) 44.980 +6.78
Rebecca THOMSON(LAV) 45.568 +7.37

Apart from the outlier (Courtney), they're pretty close. A little faster with the bigger gears, but there's too much variation in te size of the girls fields and the quality of them to make any judgements yet. There's a lot of depth (relatively) in JW17 this year.

And the F200 :

Event 15: JW17 Sprint Qualifying

Flying 200 Top 8 to Quarter Finals

1.	31	Chloe BAGGS (BBN)	12.737
2.	33	Brit JACKSON (BBN)	13.046	+0.30
3.	32	Brook RAMSHAW (CAR)	13.128	+0.39
4.	35	Jordyn HASSETT (BBN)	13.373	+0.63
5.	34	Greta CURRAN (BWK)	13.512	+0.77
6.	41	Freya WICKENDEN (CAR)	14.029	+1.29
7.	37	Emily DUNK (BWK)	14.193	+1.45
8.	36	Jamie GOODING (BBN)	14.195	+1.45

CF last year :

Courtney FIELD(CAR) 12.466
Emily APOLITO(BBN) 13.308 +0.84
Zoe NICHOLSON (ART) 14.670 +2.20
Rebecca THOMSON(LAV) 15.109 +2.64

Here we see some bigger differences - again, if we ignore Courtney as an outlier, the top three girls rode significantly faster this year. For the girls this isn't a suprise in the F200, they can wind up the gear, rather than have to accelerate it from a standing start (and most of the girls are not very strong, I don't think many of them lift), so I'd expect to see bigger changes here. What we are seeing is greater density at the top end. The girls field in 2011-2012 was tiny though, so the sample size is too small to draw any conclusions from, except that we have more JW17's racing sprint this year and that's a really good thing, there's also no (that I have seen) dead bodies on the floor. The horror of allowing 14 and 15 year olds to rev a little lower has not killed anyone. If anything, it's leveling the playing field a little, the mashers can keep up with the hummingbirds. AMAZING!

Where do we have depth? The boys. This is where we don't tend to see outliers so much because the talent pool is much bigger.

This year :

Event 4: JM17 Time Trial

2 Laps 500m Final - STANDINGS

1.	4	Gary RAMSHAW (CAR)	34.323
2.	1	Ryan SCHILT (BWK)	34.592	+0.26
3.	2	David KOROKNAI (CAR)	34.852	+0.52
4.	7	Stephen ELLUL (BBN)	35.144	+0.82
5.	6	Thomas MCFARLANE (LGA)	35.699	+1.37
6.	5	Conor ROWLEY (BBN)	35.929	+1.60
7.	3	Kurt SANTAGADA (BBN)	36.556	+2.23
8.	13	Kyle MUIR (BBN)	36.626	+2.30
9.	11	James TICKNER (CAR)	36.915	+2.59
10.	8	Caiden HULL (CAR)	36.985	+2.66
11.	9	Nicolas ABELS (BWK)	37.483	+3.16
12.	12	Tomarsh LOKI (WNG)	37.853	+3.53
13.	14	Ryan KILPATRICK (SHP)	37.935	+3.61
14.	23	Jarrod WILSON (BBN)	38.223	+3.90
15.	16	Hamish WEBBER (BBN)	38.779	+4.45
16.	22	Lachlan VAN DER VELDEN (CAR)	38.970	+4.64
17.	21	Sebastian PRESLEY (BBN)	39.614	+5.29
18.	20	Adam PAYKEL-SAMUEL (CAR)	39.766	+5.44
19.	25	Clancy LLOYD (LAV)	39.847	+5.52
20.	15	Jacob MUMFORD (BBN)	39.910	+5.58
21.	19	Indiana MICHEL (SHP)	40.463	+6.14
22.	24	Ian HERMAN (BWK)	40.601	+6.27
23.	17	Samuel BROWN (BWK)	40.874	+6.55
24.	18	Stephen DAMM (LAV)	41.435	+7.11

CF last year:

1 Jay CASTLES(SHP) 34.608
2 Mathew ROSS(CAR) 35.419
3 John COCHRANE(BBN) 35.484
4 James DANN(BBN) 35.600
5 Jack HICKEY(CAR) 35.775
6 Jerome BECHAZ(CAR) 36.075
7 Braeden DEAN(BGO) 36.142
8 Jordan STANNUS(CAR) 36.866
9 Angus LYONS(B-S) 37.349
10 Caiden HULL(CAR) 37.580
11 Thomas VERLEYS-DONK(CAR) 37.878
12 Pierce CONNOR(BBN) 38.381
13 Lucas HAMILTON(ART) 38.383
14 David KOROKNAI(CAR) 38.436
15 Jade MADDERN(CSL) 38.764
16 Angus FLOOD(BBN) 38.820
17 Jack WALK(WGL) 39.241
18 Steven CARROLL(PRS) 39.563
19 Nicolas ABELS(BWK) 39.679
20 Hamish HAYNES(SHP) 39.935
21 Ned EFE(CAR) 40.039
22 Tomarsh LOKI(WNG) 40.555
23 Michael STRINGER(BBN) 41.495
24 Jarrod WILSON(BBN) 42.294
25 Lex MUNOZ(CAR) 42.452
26 Stephen DAMM(LAV) 42.841
27 Jacob MUMFORD(BBN) 44.577

Quicker across the board. Not dramatically, but it's significant. No dead bodies.

In the F200, we're a little quicker, but interestlingly, a lot denser at the top end. I wonder if any of the kids can get into the 10's if we find any real outliers? Wouldn't that be amazing ...

Event 16: JM17 Sprint Qualifying

Flying 200 Top 8 to Quarter Finals

1.	1	Ryan SCHILT (BWK)	11.543
2.	2	David KOROKNAI (CAR)	11.627	+0.08
3.	4	Gary RAMSHAW (CAR)	11.651	+0.10
4.	7	Stephen ELLUL (BBN)	11.662	+0.11
5.	6	Thomas MCFARLANE (LGA)	11.785	+0.24
6.	9	Nicolas ABELS (BWK)	11.866	+0.32
7.	5	Conor ROWLEY (BBN)	12.019	+0.47
8.	13	Kyle MUIR (BBN)	12.152	+0.60
9.	11	James TICKNER (CAR)	12.176	+0.63
10.	14	Ryan KILPATRICK (SHP)	12.477	+0.93
11.	23	Jarrod WILSON (BBN)	12.480	+0.93
12.	16	Hamish WEBBER (BBN)	12.669	+1.12
13.	25	Clancy LLOYD (LAV)	13.066	+1.52
14.	22	Lachlan VAN DER VELDEN (CAR)	13.366	+1.82
15.	19	Indiana MICHEL (SHP)	13.410	+1.86

Last year :

Jay CASTLES(SHP) 11.631
Jack HICKEY(CAR) 11.682
John COCHRANE(BBN) 11.733
James DANN(BBN) 11.780
Braeden DEAN(BGO) 11.809
Jerome BECHAZ(CAR) 12.154
Jordan STANNUS(CAR) 12.383
Thomas VERLEYS-DONK(CAR) 12.623
Lucas HAMILTON(ART) 12.659
Angus FLOOD(BBN) 12.791
Nicolas ABELS(BWK) 12.839
Hamish HAYNES(SHP) 13.038
Jade MADDERN(CSL) 13.546
Stephen ELLUL(BBN) 13.635
Jarrod WILSON(BBN) 14.136
Ian HERMAN(BWK) 15.915

Any conclusions to draw? Not yet, it's too early to tell and I have only done a very quick and cursory look at the times from two Vic titles and I haven't considered atmospheric conditions etc. We'll see what happens at the Aussies and also when this lot of J17's move up to J19's next year. Remember the whole aim is to make the J19 -> senior jump less of a killer, and that will take 3-4 years to show itself. So far, no dead bodies, no velodromes lined with corpses and we saw some really good, close racing on the weekend, in particular in the JW17's sprint and keirens.

New locals

Carl Brewer — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:20:03 -0500

They're very new, check them out :

http://www.whittleseacyclingclub.com.au

A decade of coaching!

Carl Brewer — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:55:31 -0500

Wow, it seems like only yesterday that I was working with Neil and Trevor Cameron as my first victims while I got my level 1. I still get to work with Neil sometimes! A decade of coaching ... It's been a lot of fun and an amazing journey, but I am still a grasshopper with MUCH to learn! Bring it on!

Oh, and Neil's lesson to everyone : Wear your gloves eh?

Slump!

Carl Brewer — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:28:54 -0500

After a pretty pleasing round 2 of the SSS, I've had a few setbacks, a niggling knee twinge, a week at the Oceanias, not much/any training ... And my power is down ~150 watts! Doh ... Round 4 is coming soon, and I'm feeling better, hopefully it'll be a better day at the races!

ASADA video

Carl Brewer — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:40:23 -0500

http://www.asada.gov.au/media/cycling_investigation.html

Cyclingtips Shane Perkins interview

Carl Brewer — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:10:19 -0500

This is full of interesting stuff about Keirin in Japan!

Have a read : http://www.cyclingtips.com.au/2012/10/keirin-racing-in-japan-with-shane-perkins/

Keirins! At DISC! Go do 'em!

Carl Brewer — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:56:44 -0500

Saturday November 24 at DISC.

Juniors at 5.30pm, Seniors at 7.30pm.

Entry fee: Juniors $10, Seniors $20 (pay on the night).
Entries close November 18 at kvaroz@bigpond.net.au
Early entries close November 11: Free entry for 4 lucky entrants.

$1810 for Junior program, $3750 for Seniors + $3000 in prizes.

Details on CV’s track fixture or Laurie Norris (0417 550805).

The program is chock-full of keirins! Go enter it!

13.0!

Carl Brewer — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:33:06 -0500

SSS round 2, and close to perfect conditions, I rode a 13.079, which is a big PB for me. 53x15 gearing, I rode a low entry line and it worked. It put me into A grade. Second last qualifier, so it was going to be tough ...

I rode a good race against Nic Mark, I had a good gap and had a chance, but flatted (lucky, back wheel!) down the straight with a lap to go, lucky not to bin it, so Nic got that one. Next up I raced Dino, and again I lead it out, Dino got right on my hip passing me coming into turn 3 and I got spooked and backed off (Dino would have won anyway, this wasn't why he won!), and in the last, Kyle Muir went from 600m and I didn't bother to chase him.

So, apart from race 1 I was a gumby, but I did ride a big PB for my F200 so the day was good!