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up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we're gonna break down the
hundred meter sprint that happened this week in Doha ended up being won by Christian Palmer but
just kind of want to give it a overall breakdown of like what what happened or what transpired in
in the race I'm just going to a few different things that stood out to me obviously a big
focus of it will be on Christian Coleman but I also want to put a focus on looking a little
bit more into onto the grass as well Justin Gatlin came in second and you know maybe even
Yohan Blake as well so Christian Coleman's gonna be right there so we'll go ahead and
just get started the thing that stands out to me excuse me when we get started is we see that
the the beginning part of the race or the just the first few steps notice how fast Christian
Coleman puts an emphasis on turning over with the feet so one and two and he doesn't really want to
get the lake too far back behind him he's very very quick with with those fees already on his
four-step world when you look at the grass here he's a little bit more longer a little bit more
long of Justices I pointed through him look at the grass one two three right so you can see
that how much faster Coleman gets going with his feet in comparison to the grass and if we look
to to see you know five you see how fast he puts an emphasis on you know that turnover so that's
what I would say when you first start you want to put the emphasis on turnover you know need drive
or just not spending a lot of time on the ground it's being really really quick there okay then
as he starts to improve or is it the the knees start to come up the next thing that ends up
happening is he starts to increase the leg cycle right so one would even put turnover
to is increase I guess we'll say stride length okay so he doesn't he slightly goes up with the
angle of the spine but really what happens is he starts to allow his leg to come back
behind him a little bit more as continuing the knee drive alright as that starts to happen he
slowly starts to to raise and spine okay so if we watch Christian Christian Coleman
even compared to everybody else how he keeps that spine down everybody else is
starting to stand up right but notice how he's really staying down even like
Simba here is standing up the Grasse is standing
up Galan's pretty much standing up and gavin really hasn't stood up
until right there right you can see how he starts to separate to so to me and the way
I put putting these down is because by putting a focus on really quick feet right and then as
your feet are getting quick now slowly starting to elongate the stride right and maintaining
quickness but just elongate the stride so simple to focus you can put a focus on stride length
and then you know turning over the legs faster or you put a focus on fast legs and then increasing
starvation it looks like Coleman really puts a focus on quick legs and then increasing the
stride length then as he goes slowly gets that spine angled position now he's really reaching
which is fine angles back now he's really reaching with his arms and now you know for him what he's
essentially done is he's reached his max capacity right so you can see where he's at boom he's all
the way there now is when other guys start to catch him right so now we'll go into why does
like Andre de Grasse catch him right so now he gets in that top end speed and we could
really see the difference between the amount of hamstring strength that de Grasse has on the top
of the legs because you could see how well he's able to reach and how much of a vertical push
he's getting so as he gets this knee Drive notice how that how high his knee is as he initiates the
push or sorry not to push the pull right so he's here right we're looking here and he's extending
that leg he's pulling that leg up underneath him and that makes it so look at notice where
he's at I mean he's even you know he's pretty far back right now he's at least in you know
sixth place maybe uh you know maybe fifth fifth or sixth place you know depending on who's doing
in the first way he's winning or losing the down the first lane so but then as you get
going notice how he just starts catching everybody he just eats up everybody ends up coming in third
right and so what makes it so he ended up doing that is that ability to really dry that knee up
and then pull you know much he starts catching Cristian Coleman here at the end well Christian
Coleman look at how high he's getting his knee up right within the Grasse is getting that knee
all the way up extending and reaching so you know Christian Coleman is really really stiff and tight
in those hamstrings and so he uses that as a way to make it so you can really get a lot of Nejad
and really be really quick but in order for him to maximize that top-end speed I mean so I mean he's
running nine seven six right so at the other day you know excellent job with his overall splitting
I'm trying to say he has like these amazing huge flaws that are in his sprinting form I'm
just saying this is how he can you know improve and maybe get into these you know nine six nine
five type type numbers and right now I mean Chris Coleman's at the top guy in the world but I think
you get there by just getting that that last he's so good at joy getting to that drive face once you
get to that top-end speed that's where he ended up ends up having a little bit more of a struggle and
then if we see like the de Grasse the grass is a little bit more of a hard time when he first
starts but when he gets at his top-end speed and this is why he's you know a little bit better at
farther 200 because he can get that that knee drive up instead pull and courageous that much
force and so you know guys that are watching this are trying to learn really understanding what are
the the pros of what Christian Coleman did and what are some of the pros that that we saw with
Conor de Grasse and it'll really stand out to make it so you can you know utilize this in improving
your overall sprinting form and it's a way to help a wide variety of different type of athletes here
so yeah guys as always thanks for watching these videos if you have any questions would be happy
to hear from you and hey this is a new concept I'm kind of done if there's any races that you'd
like to see more broken down to see what exactly happened to make it so you know maybe somebody
lost maybe somebody wanted something happened you know I'll be happy to break that down help
you give you a little bit more information and really write down the different phases of it cuz
there's really you know there's so many phases of this hundred meter sprint that you ought to
be able to maximize and if you don't have that down pat then you're not gonna be able to you
know be able to perform at the highest level as a as the athlete I think that ends up being one
of the things that that happen is you know if you don't have a great start that ends up being
a thing if you don't have a great you know second part of your Drive phase that can end up losing it
for you you don't have a great first part your top end speed second part your top end speed I'd say
you know the big thing with Chris and Coleman is that second part of these top-end speed is
what kills him and then with you or with Andre de Grasse is the first part of the drive phase
right so he gets a pretty good start within right here he just ends up standing up a little bit too
much and now everybody passes them right so that first part of his drive phase where he
gets a little bit more lost but then he has like the top second part of his top-end speed face is
is elite right so just being able to understand where in your actual sprint there's something
that needs to be improved it's something that we could definitely help you out with if you have
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