My talk at Pat Beith's upcoming Speed Summit at MBSC in April is Everything Old is New Again.
Nothing is more new to me than the Acceleration Ladder I had at BU in the 1990's.
To be honest, then I didn't really understand it. Now I love the idea to teach stride length and stride rhythm. We have to be careful to not develop "reachers" but, the ladder, combined with the cue "push-push-push" really helps to quickly improve technique.
Here's a quick article from the Freelap folks as well as short video.
https://www.freelapusa.com/the-acceleration-ladder/
Some people call it “ stick drill” other coaches call them “ wickets”. Either way, sprint coach Tony Holler got me thinking about reinvesting in this tool. The Perform Better Track catalog has them if you want them. Great tool to teach stride rhythm.