hey what's up morey croson here and today we're going to be breaking down
erriyon knighton in this 200 meter and we're going to start the video right now
okay so we recently did a breakdown on area knight but we did it in 100 meter this time we're going
to be the 200 meter because he had a absolutely amazing performance here at the olympic trials
in the 200 meter and this is uh amazing heat to be able to see the first heat of the 200 meter
we haveerriyon knighton in here we have noah lyles here we have fred kerley who's already
going to be going to the olympics as a 100 meter holly already qualified there so really some great
competition going into it from from heat one all three of these guys could definitely make it into
the final for sure so to be going against each other in this first seat was was awesome to see a
really good start for from really all of them here you know it's interesting to see how noah lyles
would do because obviously he's the big favorite going into the 200 and so you know it's very
interesting to see that erriyon knighton ended up actually beating him here as he's going through
and and really did a great job here during the curve and what really stood out to me here guys or
what i've really started noticing in terms of you know some just some general sprinting technique
is if we look and and i could zoom into area 9 or either uh no allowances we're doing more of
an area knight and breakdown here we'll go to him but if we look we want to really start to
understand how to use those front side mechanics in the the arms right so if we see how he drives
forward he does a good job of locking that elbow into place right so i see a lot of guys what they
end up doing is as they drive forward they'll end up going into greater amounts of flexion
within their arm and then when they start to pull back down it'll impact how you end up generating
the extension in the shoulder okay and i want to really make it so you understand that concept
because it could be confusing there so as he's going up right he's maintaining shoulder flexion
obviously or going through shoulder flexion but he's maintaining the elbow flexion in the arm he's
not going through more amounts of elbow flexion as he gets to you know the top there or he's
minimizing how much elbow flexion he's going to through as he drives that that arm forward
and that's really important to understand because again i see a lot of guys that will go into deeper
amounts of elbow flexion there and again that impacts then how you go into shoulder extension
so then when you're pulling back they'll end up being a greater amount of extension in the elbow
rather than just pulling back with the arm in a very natural position there so really be aware
of what you're doing as you're driving that arm through you don't want it and don't allow doesn't
know allows us a good job as well where he's just driving straight through and then coming back
behind him and really making it so you know he's controlling his upper body as you're sprinting
and that's a critical part of being able to ensure that you're going to be able to run consistently
at a high speed because what that the arm does when you're pulling your arm back it really
partners up with how you pull back with your leg right and it's critical that when you're
pulling back with your leg you want to be able to keep that leg as straight as you can right
so notice all these guys are landing with their legs really really straight which makes it so then
they can get a very very fast foot contact time so you can see him landing at 93.72
and we talk a lot about full contact time and leg cycle and i know we don't do a lot of stuff
with the um arms and so i wanted to give you guys a little bit more information of the arms
but he's at you know 0.1 probably under 0.1 you know 0.09 to 0.1 for contact time which is
excellent especially at this part of you know the race where he's starting to you know be it's like
150 meters in or so okay maybe 120 to 150 meters in so that's an important part to be able to
really understand how to make sure that you're driving your leg back and making sure that
you're able to maintain speed because you know obviously this is a you know the first heat so
he's not going to go and press all the way through but if you don't have good mechanics here you're
not going to be able to change them going in so it's super important to understand how to build up
yourself to make it so you're going to be able to have a strong finish whether you're in the 100
200 400 whatever the case may be you got to make sure that you're able to land with that foot in
a good position the way to be able to land with that foot a good position is making sure you're
maintaining good posture and pull when you're when you're pulling those arms back because if you lose
the ability to pull that arm back that's going to really have a negative impact on your ability to
run fast so as always guys if you like this information go ahead and click that thumbs up
down below subscribe the channel if you haven't already questions comments recommendations you
can go ahead and leave those down below you know big thing that i've been talking about lately is
going to be those zoom sessions i really really recommend you guys get a zoom session if you
want to get more into your technique and how you can improve your technique again this is the 200
but we could do 400 we could do 100 we could do 60 we do 40 meters i know or sorry 40 yard dash
i know there's probably not as many football guys that are going to be watching this because i know
you know track is going to be a little bit different than football and going and watching
the olympic trials is probably not something that a lot of high school or college football players
will be doing but if you are i highly recommend you guys checking out our zoom session down below
because then you will definitely understand the importance of your spreading mechanics and making
sure that those are optimized for your success and that really ends up being the big thing here you
know i get people that comment sometimes that try to say that you know the sprinting mechanics is
not important you have to build your strength you have to be in the weight room you have to do this
or that or deadlift or whatever and you know while those are you know to a degree important that's
not the big thing here all the guys that are the best in the world have certain biomechanics that
are critical to your success and you just have to be able to have those in order to run fast uh you
know erriyon knighton is somebody that you could tell is going to be great going into the future
because he has such a natural great biomechanics so he just needs to work off of the biomechanics
that he has if you're somebody that doesn't have great biomechanics you have to build those into
your body it doesn't matter how much you deadlift doesn't matter how much you squat doesn't matter
how high you can jump if you don't have the right mechanics from the start to the drive phase to the
top end speed and we want to be able to build that through those zoom sessions so i really really
recommend you guys checking that out down below as always thanks for watching and if you're still
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