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hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we have
a new breakdown for you today on Matthew bowling he is big made a big name for himself last year
in the track and field world and here we're gonna actually break down his curb start so we've been
working a little bit more curve start lately and just thought we'd go ahead and give you a better
detail of what you're looking for when when doing the you know 200-400 type of races so first you
can see front leg up out in front they think that he does an excellent job of is getting that full
extension one of the things that looks really interesting to me with Matthew bowling start is
that he really extends that that arm all the way up and forward and all the way up and he does that
really really early on in the actual movement and I'm assuming that allows him to get a good amount
of horizontal movement going this way right leg so everything is moving that way in that direction
by getting him to really boost that arm upwards like that and then from there does an excellent
job getting triple extension look how good he's pushing off this toe here and maintain a triple
extension all the way through his foot through knee hip and then one thing that you can really
say in doubt is that he does a good job getting that second foot down quickly keeping that heel
high right he gets a little bit rounded through here but he keeps a good knee bend give me that
again that heel high and is able to push off really really quickly on that second step so
that's really important a lot of times with the second step I see a lot of mistakes with either
not getting that foot down very quickly or getting that heel too low to make it to you're not and
you're not too quick with that second step you got to be really down quick and then pushing off as
fast as you can on I think it's eyebrows are just not gonna work out third step here you'd see again
not spending too much keeps that one one thing keeps that heel really lower but sort of that
foot really low as he's transitioning through and then as he pushes down again not spending
too much time with his foot off the ground really gets his foot down quick really and that's what's
here and then is up on to her office he'll again write really quick they're still a little bit
rounded but but also staying very very low didn't really get too much height from his second to his
third step for step now he's starting to open up a little bit more right this one takes a
little bit longer for his foot to get down on the ground but all of his steps he's really attacking
the ground for each one of these steps and that really helps him in getting his momentum going
and he's also staying horizontal he's really he's still not popping up still not popping
up he's maintaining a really a lot of quickness there as as he's starting to begin that the the
roundness and the opening up of the actual run so that would be you know one of the big things
that notices there is when you're looking at that start how quick he is when he's first taking off
and then how well he's able to stay with more of that horizontal look look how far back he's
still getting that foot back behind him right the only way you can get your foot that far back is
if you're staying very very horizontal with your spine and really not allowing yourself to pop up
too early there so he's doing an excellent job of staying low here and and you want to be able
to do that because right now it's really about gaining that speed it's not about getting to
your top-end speed you're running a curve so you don't need to necessarily get into a high speed
really really fast it's about being quickness or getting quick and starting to groove your overall
mechanics over being able to kind of break that down and see you know how Mathew bowling does it
I hope will be beneficial for you and being able to understand how you can improve your
your two or four hundred liters start alright I don't know if you guys have any questions
and we'll talk soon hey thank you so much for watching this video I hope you really enjoyed
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