hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be breaking down
matthew bowling 6.59 in comparison to 6.65 when we start the video right now
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all right so as a lot of us know matthew bowling he started off running a 6.59 in the prelims in
the sec championships and then he ended up in the finals tying with a 665 and so we really want to
go over what happened the thing that really stood out to us was that on the in the prelims he did
a he had a great start right he had a great and when we really look at it it ended up being really
a great reaction right so you could see from the very beginning it was a little bit ahead it seemed
like you know the guys that were next to him but really right on the same time in comparison to
in the championships he was a little bit delayed right you could see everybody basically reacted
out in front of them and you know i would actually say this ends up being a great experience for
matthew bowling especially when he when he watches it again because what happened here
and if we look and see you know some of the key critical numbers right so you know he's down at
two two six boom with that foot two six and then he's off by four three right so he's in that
point one seven range we're always talking about that first step down at 0.5 and then back off
at 0.63 0.633 right so that second step wants to be around you know 0.13.14
is what we're always talking about and that's where he is right so you know nothing amazing
in terms of the start right nothing really stood out there and even on this one 9.66 a little bit
late off at 0.86 right 0.2 i might have been a little bit early there with that landing
you know the film is always not the best when it comes to this i always like to be
able to utilize my film better because you can get a little bit more accuracy there
and yeah and here we're at point one so he's a little bit late with his steps there right we'd
like to see that one closer to point one four okay instead of you know he's at about point one seven
so he's a little bit late but i think the better thing here is he really didn't stay with with
his typical form here right so he realizes that he's he messed up with that and and didn't really
you know wasn't that far behind with the first step but he could tell that he got a bad reaction
and then on the second step i think he kind of popped up a little bit realizing that and then
it took him a little bit more time to be able to get off the ground and then by the time he
hit back on that third step you know now he's back in a position where he's going to be able
to get into his drive face but he kind of messed up with those first two steps right you can see
how that ended up making a big difference and you know as he got into his drive phase right he ended
up being a little bit behind but i would say you know he really wasn't in too bad of a place
after his first second first two steps yeah he's a little bit delayed but i think that more of what
the the impact was is that he you know didn't stay consistent with you know what it is that he does
when it comes to you know building to his top end speed so the idea of the start the idea of the
the drive phase is how can we optimize our ability to get into our top end speed as effectively as we
possibly can right and so what happened here is because he got that delayed reaction he didn't
go into his drive phases confidently you know as he typically does so now we're going to go into
that 659 where you can see he really stayed with that drive face and see how his spine stayed in a
consistent angle all the way through that really helped him as he went into uh that drive phase
into his top-end speed we're here you know he got into this spine angle was a little bit out in
front and then you know kind of lowered back down in order to get back into his drive phase and then
got into his stop-and-speed later on into the race where here he stayed consistent through that drive
phase and then was able to transition to his top speed you know a lot more effectively so now he's
way out in front of everybody and then just really utilize that top end speed to be able to help him
out now what makes him very very you know special and very intriguing from a you know long-term
development perspective he has such a great position within his hips you can see he has a lot
of range of motion here so he's able to land with his foot really really straight while maintaining
a lot of uh hip hinging ability so his hips are still you know back is his core is really flexed
so now he has a great opportunity to generate a lot of force behind him while maintaining a great
position within the legs right so typically what happens is when you're landing here you end up
having to get your spine a little bit more upright to be able to land with your foot right underneath
your hips right like that because you're the the hamstring range of motion is going to be limited
right but for him he can keep his spine pretty far forward while landing with his legs straight
which really allows him to generate a lot of force into the ground and transition to his
top speed very very smoothly and this is what he can do no matter what so even when he gets
into his top speed here he's able to catch these guys because he he is able to go back and do his
fundamentals but really if he would have stayed with that at the beginning instead of you know
kind of panicking or kind of responding to you know that that bad step right so you could see
this first two and then this is where he really starts to have to go back down into
his start right or into that that initial kind of posture so everybody else is kind of standing up
and going through their their regular mechanics and he ends up being kind of a step behind
in terms of his body position then he has to get back into you know his normal drive phase
top-end speed phase and then he's able to end up you know catching the guys at the end but you
know that ends up being i think a great lesson for you guys if you know you start off and it's
not a great start you want to stay with you know your same you know start mechanics your same drive
phase mechanics don't you know immediately react and respond in a way that's going to make it so
now you lose your technique right stay focused on the technique really you know allow yourself to be
able to go through the same process as no matter what happens everything that happens in the past
you know that's behind you you can't make too big of an impact i know that's you know hard
i did this as well in my event is like you know i didn't have a great start and then i ended up
impacting that impacted my ability to get into you know my top speed so it's a lot easier said than
done especially when you've been training and working and he had such a great you know prelim
so i understand you know where it came from but again i think it's a great learning opportunity
so now when he gets this opportunity again you know he'll be more prepared from a reaction point
perspective as well as you know if things don't go right you know stay calm and and stay with
his training because he's still you know what i'm sure he learned from this is like he's got the
elite speed you know he was really far behind here in the 60s you don't have a lot of time to be able
to make up space in the 60 but he was still able to do it he still ended up being you know time
for first place here with that that great lean but you know we want to be able to understand
just because the start isn't always you know or the reaction isn't always great don't panic and
this is where you know running the 40 could be a little bit better because you know you're not
racing against somebody so you don't lose that you know body position as much you could stay a little
bit more consistent with your your running form but you know in in this race you you end up kind
of panicking especially because the guy next to him got a great start right so it was like
the two total opposite situations here you got one guy you know who got a great start other guy
that got you know terrible start and you know they still ended up tying so you know i think it ends
up being a great confidence booster for matthew bowling going forward in terms of his over to all
development especially because he ran 6-5-9 which is a great time especially for his age so you know
he needs to keep working on his start he needs to make it so it's something that is a lot more of
like a routine that he's consistently doing to make it so then you know when he gets to these
events he he has a framework that he's going to be going through every single time so as always guys
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