hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the perform stop in California and we have another to
break down for you today on Ben Johnson just because you know you watch his start and it's
like one of the most fascinating starts it that you can see and you know he's really known for
just because you know everybody else really extends out with that first step but he's a
unique as an unique start where he just really jumps out of the blocks and also has just a
insane reaction time so we'll go ahead and just hop right into the breakdown here we got on the
right here that's Ben Johnson we also have been John so we got two different angles here this
is Carl Lewis - and on the left of him or I guess on the right of him to us we're looking at him on
the left but you know so what stands out is that when you first see the reaction of everything you
know he's just really quick and being able to get off the actual block you know then when he
goes he really extends both arms together almost going backwards for a second so his left arm goes
back right arm kind of goes back so they both go that way first and then you're the left arm kind
of comes up and it really makes it so his body lifts up so it's initial movement of going back
with the left arm then going up with with the arm to make it so now you can start driving the right
leg through and so instead of you know you could see Carl Lewis where he's gonna go in and really
extend off and try to push off Ben Johnson really just tries to really jump out and explode out and
we could really see it here on the left side really well where he goes and when he pushes
off it's really a lot more of like a jumping type of emotion right you can see again here
where he's just going in extending this more like the traditional type of movement but you could see
what Ben Johnson where he's jumping with with both legs and he gets that that right foot down pretty
quickly doesn't take a very big step really turns that foot out to the side a good amount there that
first down right foot and then from there comes all the way through with that left leg and we see
this like Asafa Powell does this a good amount Usain Bolt does this a good amount we see this
a lot with that initial start in in really making it said there's a lot of valgus going on within
the knee so that's a pretty normal thing to do but he really drives out that leg around and and
uses that momentum to get him going because he's not a very tall guy but he was still one of the
springers ever and the reason was is because of how great his start was he was able to get
to his top speed so good and then you know from there he just had to maintain the leads that he
would get because he would always jump out and have such a great starting and get himself in a
great position from the start so I just wanted to show you guys a little bit more about that that
an interesting start that you hadn't really you know emphasized the amount of explosion
that you want to have when you're coming out of the blocks and and this is really I mean it's
coming out the blocks ins also when we're talking about the first three steps when you're starting
here 40 right because I see a lot of guys that aren't able to get that full extension within
their license you could see you know even though he's he's going jumping everybody's still getting
full extension within their legs as they're starting and that's super important in order
to maximize your run there's a lot of guys that as they're starting they're keeping their knees
bent and it's impacting their ability to really get to their top-end speed effectively and also
maximize their time we're getting a great start position right it's all about to start if you're
if you get yourself popped up in the start or if you're not pushing off the ground correctly then
the momentum ends up being messed up right that's why you know like an airplane all airplanes end
up having the same basic route and how they they take off just because they're there's a certain
trajectory that you got to do in order for the airplane to get to the max speed and then be
able to actually get up into the air so similar here with the with the start you want to be able
to really maximize how you're getting out of the blocks in order to make it so then you can get
your top and speed right there's gonna be a little bit of a lateral movement that's gonna happen when
you're first getting started but then from there you'll be able to straighten yourself out and make
it so you get to top end speed but if you end up going and not getting extension or if you don't
don't utilize any of that lateral movement it's really gonna have an impact on you once you get
you know going into 10 20 30 yards down them down the you know field or you know 20 40 60 meters
down the actual track you just won't be able to you know match the guys that have a really really
great start in comparison to you know if you have a lot of wasted motion or or don't get the right
amount of power when you're coming out of the box all right so I just want to show that you
I thought it was super interesting going over been Jets on another quality here isn't isn't
great I'm going to show it to both live here to kind of end the the actual video here but the
yeah thought it would be super interesting for you guys to be able to check this out
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