hey what's up everyone we're coaching here and today we're going to be taking a deeper
look into yohan blake's printing form i'm going to start the video right now
all right so i recently got a recommendation to do a kind of before and after of yohan blake just
because he hasn't been performing as well recently so just to get a little bit more clarity on why
that could potentially be happening so here on the right we have yohan blake pretty recently
at the american track league um just this is on the 31st and then this is back in 2012
at the diamond league championships and here on the left he actually ran 969 uh and then
here on the right he ran 10-1 so um you know definitely a better time here in 2012 uh which
would be about nine years ago and he's about 31 now so um you know this is when he was like 22
years old and now you know he's he's obviously 31 so yeah just going a little bit more in depth into
his running uh obviously over a period of time and with as long of a career and that yohan blake
has had uh you know there's gonna potentially be some injuries that could end up affecting him and
that's what i think you know stands out to me uh is it does look like he might have some type of
like a limp or kind of lean that he has on his right side when he brings his right leg through
it just doesn't look like he has as much strength and confidence in it you know now as he did before
he almost has again like a kind of a limp to it uh where before he had a very very nice
kind of stride and we could see this so this is against tyson gay and again this is when he ran
969 so you know he still has a great start and i was i started off kind of looking at the start
and you know he did a great job he lost this race was actually run won by ronnie baker who's on
the right here and you can see that yohan blake really got a better start at the beginning here
and was able to you know get some great acceleration but then you know once we got to
about right here ronnie baker was able to start catching him and ended up actually winning the
race where we could see here you know y'all blink again gets a good start and then gets into more of
his top speed and once he gets closer to his top speed he just is able to pull away from everybody
we're here you know again he gets that great start and then once he gets to this position we could
see that limp right so see when he's landing on this right side how it almost even looks like he's
landing on his heel right on this on this right side so it doesn't look like he's near as clean
with that foot we could see you know where he's at timing wise so five eight ish is when he lands
and he's off by about six eight so he's still probably about at a point one
for contact time we have been looking at you know a lot of these guys that are running sub
uh 10 in the 100 and most of them are getting under 0.1 for contact time i'd say he's right
about at 0.1 and if we look at his foot you know again if we're looking at that right foot
much better with the landing on you know in before with that right foot so you can see how he's able
to maintain a good position in the toe in the foot as he pulls that foot back underneath him
where on the right side as he's pulling back we could see that little turnout there right
and that's going to really impact the amount of power that he's able to generate into the ground
when you turn your foot out to the side a little bit right so um right before he lands he's kind
of externally rotating his foot which i think is and ended up really impacting him and i don't know
if the the turning out of the foot has to do with maybe a hamstring thing like i said a groin thing
a you know foot thing what ends up being you know kind of the cause of that but you can see that his
left side he still maintains a good position and before he had a good position as well on
the left side you know he does seem a lot more comfortable before really reaching with his you
know feet out in front now he doesn't get near as much of a reach with his feet out in front
of him you know see how nicely he's getting that foot way out in front and being able to you know
consistently maintain that where again now when he goes and brings that foot out in front you're
just not able to get it as as much of a lift out in front there and also not able to pull that foot
back as as cleanly and so you know i think that he still came in second you know he was still around
10-1 which is going to still you know qualify for the olympics he's still one of the best sprinters
in the world and i think probably the best printer in jamaica right now um but you know point being
is there are some people that are starting to pass him up and you know there could be some some
questions with the form right i will say too it looks like he's getting a lot higher with his foot
back behind him as well you know especially here on that left side see how high that foot's getting
or before he was really close with those feet as he was coming out and he had a lot bigger and a
longer stride you know before and and you know was able to get to a little bit higher top speed
we can't go into a little bit the numbers here especially on the left side so let's see
five nine landing and off by six eight right so that's closer to a .09
stop at six eight touches back down at oh four you know maybe a little bit 404 maybe like o2 so
somewhere about a point three four for contact time let's look at the left side eight four
there's now seven nine off by eight nine or eight eight again 0.09 and then down there at about you
know 2 1 2 2 somewhere like that we'll say 2 2 which would again be a .34 foot contact time okay
and now let's take a look on the right the right side you know even though it was filming a little
bit higher quality uh seems like when you zoom in doesn't maintain it as well this is still the end
of the race and luckily he's wearing yellow shoes so we can kind of see i mean it looks like he's
pretty close to hitting the ground right there you know we could probably say like maybe two three
use off by three two which would be again 109. we'll go 0.32
go maybe six four so now he's at a point three two in terms of his you know leg cycle there
four two on the left
off close to maybe five two
and then we'll cycle all the way through maybe eight eight
which would be closer to point three six you know so you know it could be maybe it's close a point
three four um or maybe as high as a point 0.36 uh point being you know and this kind
of validates it so he's has a little bit longer stride with the left side a little bit shorter
side or stride with the right side it just shows a little bit of tightness on the right side so
um you know i do think that there is something going on on that right leg right foot that is
definitely impacting his ability to reach that top speed um or either that or something has to
do with like his lower back or you know something that that could be you know impacting him there so
um definitely don't want to end up shortening your stride too much right it's good to have a
fast drive but if you end up really shortening how many steps it takes you to go 100 meters
then it's going to have a negative impact on your time so you want to be able to improve the
the leg cycle so you're taking the same amount of steps uh in just less time but if you end up
impacting how much distance you're picking up per step in order to cycle the legs and
that's actually going to have a negative impact on your sprinting performance so
it looks like that's really the the big thing here is that he's able to maintain fairly good
foot contact time you know over the years but really his stride and how much distance he's
picking up per step seems to be the big thing that has changed in the past like nine years or so so
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