hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be breaking down
matthew boling at the sec championships and we're going to start the video right now
so a couple people reached out for me to do this video and i think the big reason why is because
matthew boling ended up kind of struggling at the end of his first heat of the sec championships and
actually almost got hawked and came in second place and you know really goes into you know
what happened right what ended up being the big difference between you know where he is with his
top speed in comparison to where he was a couple years ago when he ran a 998 and was the fastest
high school athlete in the nation so really wanted to go into some of the things that that changed
and specifically into the top speed we do want to go a little bit into his start right just because
that's really what stood out in his races he just had an amazing start really took off was able to
stay low for a good amount of time and really does a really nice job of utilizing the arms and
his head swing in order to really generate a good amount of force here so you can see he got a good
kind of reaction time and and was able to slay low but you can see how he's really utilizing
his head and his body to be able to sway side to side and this really helps him in being able
to generate a good amount of motion right and the more motion that you have then the more leverage
that you're able to create so as he's creating motion here he's able to get himself going pretty
well and then he gets into his his top speed and at this point he is pretty far out in front and
really in a good position to what everybody kind of thought would be you know kind of blow away the
competition similar to like what he did in high school when you're in the 998 and you know what
i think what ended up really happening here is and i don't know you know exactly what type of maybe
injuries or tightness or what the his coaches are obviously working on him with but you know one
of the things that we really loved about matthew boling or at least i really loved matthew boling
when he was coming out is just how great his frontside mechanics are right and what happened
at the end of this race is that he really started to stiffen up with those front side mechanics
when we look at the right leg you know he still has that really nice reach with that right foot
and then pull down with that right leg so that's something that he's been able to continue to excel
at but it looks like he got a little bit stiff on the left side right and so he's not able to get as
much of that motion with that foot coming out in front and i think what happened is that because
he kind of struggled there and having a little bit of asymmetry from one side to the other you
know you end up almost slowing yourself down a bit right when you go in and you utilize that
right leg to really pull back here able to get a good amount of acceleration push off
and you know really be able to optimize that leg but then with the left leg not being able to do
that as much you're not creating much as much of a pullback he loses a good amount of speed right
and then this is where he gets gained on a little bit and then when he has the right leg he's able
to you know get back separate keep the space but then he gets back to this left leg and then you
can see he gets gained on a little bit right that pull down with that left leg is not as forceful
not able to generate as much overall ground force and then because of that isn't able to push off
as well and again that's where he almost ends up getting caught is able to then you know get
himself back up keep the distance here and then on this last step again gets caught a little bit more
so really goes into that that left leg and being able to optimize the left leg and what i did
is i went back to when he ran that 998 that's why i referred to a couple times here and just
wanted to see like you know does was there a big difference in his ability to really region and you
know i would say there is the angle is a little bit different right so once you got later on into
the race um you can't really see as much but it definitely looks like he's able to maintain a good
amount of extension on really both legs you know he's not as good on his right leg you know like
here he's really doing a great job reaching all the way out with that right leg and pulling back
and you know he's not doing a bad job but he's not doing he's not getting that right leg as high
and you know pulling back with something that's a little bit more consistent to the left leg right
see how how similar each side is there and so i don't know again if they're specifically coaching
to be able to get the feet higher you know on both sides and the right leg is responding better than
the left leg or again if this is something that you know you might have a little bit of stiffness
going on within that left hamstring and a lot of times that ends up happening in you know the
situations where you might have a slight pull um or something like that where you could end up you
know having a little bit less overall range of motion within that you know specific hamstrings
so again i don't know what happened i don't know what what's the you know background story of it
but you can definitely tell there's a difference between his running style from you know back here
and you know being able to be a little bit more consistent on each leg and you know that ends up
making it so he's able to maintain a little bit better top end speed where here he wasn't able
to just maintain it as well uh which i think ended up being the big reason why blow this race out of
the water so you know i still think he's obviously learning still pretty young and he still has a lot
of improvements to to be able to do i you know appreciate the recommendations of people reaching
out and wanting to know a little bit more about you know what it is that he's doing from a top
end speed perspective and and i'm glad that we were able to you know hopefully find a conclusion
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