hey what's up everyone this is Morey Croson from the performance lab of California today we're
going to do a another sprint breakdown on rommel glave he is a sprinter out of England right now
he's the the fastest seventeen-year-old in the world runs about a 10 to 100 meter dash so I
thought that he would be a good good person good example of what we can do to you know
better improve the Sprint and really get those those really elite numbers right so you know
that's always the goal just to see what the elite people are doing and just kind of compare them to
some other counterparts and some of the other guys that we have also broke down as well I was
like doing the younger you know guys just because you know most of our audience is you know younger
developing athletes and so if you can get of a perspective on how you know other top guys are
doing it then it could help you translate into more speed for yourself and and yeah so we'll
start the breakdown so you know a couple things stand out here's this is where Ramona is here
for for his start the this guy right here and the fourth line actually probably had a better start
then than him and so we're gonna do is one look to see you know what are the differences within
the start and then we're also look to see these two guys here as we get going we get to start to
see some of the inefficiencies between what Rommel is doing compared to what these guys
are doing and then even you know what Rimmel did against and when it compared to the start so went
what stands out with Rommel is that his arms are very especially that left arm see how it's coming
across a lot and you compare that to the guy here in the fourth lane where he's much more kind of
forward and backwards with his arm swing which is really more of what you're what you want to
do and he actually starts out with a pretty good little lead really hit of everybody because he's
very [ __ ] up he's also has like a longer torso a little bit shorter legs and it's another thing to
think that'd be interesting to kind of talk about the physical traits and how those impact you so
you know his shorter legs end up kind of hurting him there at the end and you could see that but
that long torso and the shorter legs maybe so he gets faster turnover which helped him get a
really good start when you're talking about Romel now again the big thing that stands out with him
is that arm swing so that left arm really going side to side is something that's a little bit
inefficient that's what's gonna be you know as he starts to work on that and starts to be a little
bit better control of his arms he's gonna be a lot faster guy because he has a very nice very natural
leg swing and then he also gets very good air off of each one of his steps you could see how well
he's able to get that vertical lift off in each one of those steps which is really ends up being
crucial in order to maintain that high level of speed so you know as we get further into the race
you can see romell start to take over what stands out to me is that if you look at these other two
guys to the side they are very inefficient with how their bodies moving right so their
heads move especially him his head's moving a lot side-to-side as he's going the guy in the first
lane it's slight but you can you can compare that to since we're going to come to the end here we'll
go back you can compare that to Rimmel and how calm he is right so you can see that there's not
a lot of extra movement going on within his head and his shoulders he's very smooth but you could
see those other guys there on the right are not not the same they have a lot of shoulder movement
side to side a lot of wasted movement within their sprint which is something that's very important
that you gotta think about is that you want to be able to maintain you know a nice ability to
stay rigid in in those shoulders in that head in that neck and really you definitely don't want to
go kind of forward and back as you're going and that's where you get that a little bit here and
you get that a little bit here with the head kind of bobbing front forward and backwards okay and
that's something that you definitely want to stay away from another big thing that that romell does
well that I think is important especially when it gets to this top end you could see how high
his hands getting right so he gets that hand all the way up to ear height I mean it would compare
that to some of these other guys here here in that middle lane where they're just not getting there
hands very high yeah okay and that's gonna end up being very important a lot of times
I'll see sprinters and they have a good ability to get their arms back which I don't think you
know there's not very many guys that that I see here that aren't doing a good job in their arms
really far back really reaching back there but you do see a good amount of guys that aren't
getting those hands all the way up see how his hands not getting up to 2-0 height I think this
guy's not getting all the way up to zero height as well so that forward that that PEC activation
when you're coming forward during your sprint is really really important in generating force and
coordination within your body so the more that you use your arms coming forward the more power
that you're gonna get in each one your steps I mean it's very important when you're jumping to
to you know bring those arms through through and up as you're jumping just like it is when
you're when you're sprinting it's very important to bring that arm all the way up and all the way
through that's that's a big part of what drives that opposite hip flexor so how well he's using
his right PEC here and how much he's driving with that right arm is a direct indication of how much
power he's gonna get out of that left leg and that left hip flexors as it's coming up so when you
could sync that up better and really fully utilize your force there it's gonna just make it so you're
faster sprinter I think that's one of the things that stand out is that you know his arm swing is
just a lot better than all these other guys which is probably a key part in you know how well he's
able to develop force as the race goes on at the beginning he takes a little bit to get it going
just because his there's some inefficiencies with with his arm swing so he ends up kind of relying
on it a lot which makes it so he can't get the the great start and as he begins to you know
work on that and starts to become more efficient within the arm swing you know I think he'll end
up fixing that start a lot but what separates is when he gets to that the end part now his his arm
swings becomes very efficient and very controlled and he has that natural ability to get that great
vertical force like I was talking about before so he ends up being able to feed people by a lot
because of you know when he gets going how elite that arm that swing is and how well he's able to
coordinate one arm swing to the other leg hip flexion or leg drive and then another important
part about what he does as well as he has that really good ability to stay controlled and get
that good vertical force so he's not wasting a lot of motion here and he's continuing to get
that vertical force on each one of his steps you can see no he's touching here very doesn't spend
very much time on the ground but push gets a lot of push up and is able to drive that other leg out
you could see how vertical he's getting as he goes but he doesn't go end up going very much
up-and-down right so he's almost like floating here in the air so see how he does that how his
hip height doesn't change at all as he's going all right up through the air it's really kind
of an amazing thing that you're able to do where you know your momentum is going so strong so far
forward that doesn't even know gravity almost doesn't even have an impact on on you as you're
as you're in the air so yeah that's remotely one of the new and upcoming fastest sprinters thought
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