Why Jamaican so fast? specially Usain Bolt & Asafa Powell
Why Jamaican so fast? I think it’s the culture around the sports track & field…Probably more than 90% of all school children participate in the sport in Jamaica…
I was in the top 5 fastest track star back in high school in Jamaica; one other guy was just as fast, sometime he will win and other time I will.
One day a new guy transfer to our school and word quickly spread that he could run fast…While I was on one side of the school having lunch outside with a group of friends a friend ran from the other side of the school to let me know that the new guy beat one of our track star in a 100m race, one of the top 5 fastest guy at the school. “On any flat surface we could eye ball the distant of a 100m and race”
When you have 10, 15 guys fallowing you every day at lunch because you are a track star and you are popular you have to challenge the new guy else you will lose ranks.
So the entire school walking to the other side with me to meet this new guy for a race, still in school uniform and casual shoes ready to dismantle this new guy…
When I first saw this new guy I was like “this should be quick and fast” no way this bent foot knock knee boy could beat me in a 100m. Once you know you are fast and can run fast at will, you never fair a challenge. I don’t know where Asafa Powell fair comes from.
With the entire school shouting your name and all your girls and home boy rooting for you, its game on time, its knee lifts time.
I wasn’t even thinking about starting fast. We ran and this guy was so fast he instantly became a track star but he had to publicly challenge me while wearing spikes “track shoe and shorts”.
So a show-down was set for a school afternoon where the entire school will be watching… My preparation for the challenge was to get up 3am in the morning and ran up hill and reach back home by 6am so I can get ready for schoolat 8am, this is done daily…
Keep in mind that I also go to track training every evening after school, the 3am training was that little trick I got up my sleeve since all the track star at the school doing the same training everyday, I want to do something different to have an edge. Track star equal girls, free lunch and celebrity status in school. Lol…
Well, anyway this new guy whip my Ass and he wasn’t even trying to run fast, a proformance like Usain Bolt 9.69…lol
Its like this in most school in Jamaica…football star will shine during football season but track star will shine all year….
The funny thing is that Jamaicans don’t forget you because you last your status as the fastest guy, some will like you because they like your style, drama and the excitement around you. So the new guy established his group of followers and sometime we all hang out together…. What a drama….lol
Even at 30 now, when I bump into old time school mate they will remember you as a track star… The other day I was in Jamaica talking to an old school friend on the street corner when a old school mate walk up to join the conversation. My friend asks me if I remember Lightning, track star from school days…I said “yes man I remember lightning”.
Track star always do some dramatic spectacular thing that you don’t forget them….like one track star name flash who won a 100m with a broken hand still in cast…
So, when you see Bolt and Powell run like that and run against clock pounding chest…its not drugs.
Most Jamaican doesn’t even know that a person can take something to run fast until the American made it popular….We just train to run fast or can run fast at birth…
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