hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have a brand new breakdown
for you today on blessing okagbare and we're gonna start the video right now
okay so this video is from a couple weeks ago we have blessing here who is slowly making herself
one of the favorites that should be able to potentially win or at least give a good
competition in the 100 meter and this woman's 100 meter is still going to be super entertaining to
watch even though we're not going to be able to watch you shacarri richardson as well but
we'll go ahead and break down blessing here and you know big thing that that really stands out
to me uh with her is just one i mean her height is something that you know obviously gives
her a supreme advantage over everyone she's five foot eleven but another thing that stands out is
that she has really just great technique and this is another example this is something i've
been preaching a lot lately is the importance of technique but you can really see this here in this
olympic trial race where you know when you compare hurts pretty technique and what she's doing
primarily here with her arm you can see some big differences here so you know we could see
for instance you know these two women here you know one this one ends up crossing over
to the side a good amount with the arms and so does she here really crossing over and really
having a hard time maintaining a good position with the the posture right and so when you're
going you're swinging across with your arms and that's an important thing to be able to look at
or have a hard time maintaining good posture when you're sprinting you know keeping
yourself pretty upright it's going to make a negative impact over a long period of time so
you know you might be able to get to a top speed pretty quickly right you might be able to build
into a top speed but when it comes to you know 60 meters or so you're going to start to slow down
really really quickly and that's going to make it very difficult for you to be a you know top
sprinter when it comes to the 100 meter right i'll see a lot of people that are running like
the 40 yard dash for the nfl draft and they'll have that that forward lean and be able to run
a really great 40 but that's just not sustainable when it comes to being able to run at an olympic
level and to me is really not something that you want to be able to implement in order to
really have great overall speed so you can see here with blessing and and how she's able to
maintain such a great upright position and how she utilizes those frontside mechanics i mean that's
real what she is tremendous at is is her leg is all the way straight here and she still has
you know probably three or four inches at least before she's hitting the ground so she's really
able to pull that foot right back behind her and land in such an upright position there that's one
of the best landing positions you could possibly be in in any sprinter woman or men hers landing
position is is really a textbook position of where you want to be landing with your foot i do think
that she could work on her backside mechanics a little bit where you know you can see we're
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done a couple videos lately on like noah lyles and how great his backside mechanics are and how
well he's able to get a great knee drive and she's lacking a little bit of extension within her hip
as she's going back and pushing up so you can see you know her knee is right behind her hip there
she's not getting as much extension and push off within you know that posterior chain so she could
get a little bit better with being able to better utilize that right you see what a lot of those
top sprinters you know are able to get that knee pretty far back behind their hip and that allows
them to be able to create a little bit more force off the ground but still she's able to maintain
a very very vertical position within her foot how she's pushing off and then is able to then utilize
that in having excellent excellent front side mechanics and again great job of utilizing our
arms we're seeing some of these other women here and you get to see the difference in posture right
where they're all kind of falling forward here and really very tight intense with their upper bodies
right and and really because of of the tenseness that they have in the upper bodies or ended up
using a lot of inefficient movement patterns where you can see blessing is just so nice and
smooth with their upper body which is really assisting her and being able to create a lot of
downward force as she's sprinting so you know you really want to be able to emulate the the
landing position i would say and the posture of blessing because you know both of those things
i think are really effective in making sure that you're going to be able to sustain a top and speed
very very well because you know this is difficult it's not easy to be able to really pull that foot
back underneath like that and be able to do it in a way that can sustain you over the entirety of a
race it gets tiring to be able to hold yourself like that so you're really utilizing a lot of
core she's utilizing a lot of leg strength and also a lot of arm strength to be able to maintain
that posture throughout her running so you know that ends up being the big difference is she's
able to maintain it these women just are not able to maintain it which makes it so then they start
moving all over the place and you can see they start landing with the knees a lot more bent
and you know really end up land or pushing off with their feet really far back behind them which
makes it so the spine ends up falling a lot more forward so you can see some of the big differences
even the hand position you know like the hands are really high up here with her running in comparison
to what we're seeing with blessing right getting her hand just right up to her cheek well if you
get your hand too far up in front of you here that's also a good indication that you're falling
too far forward with your spine position getting that foot too far back behind you so
really want to be aware of some of these little nuances that can make a big difference when it
comes to sprinting you know a hundredth of a second a couple tenths of a second that makes
a huge difference in where you're at even with you know what she was able to run on this is 1062
was a win-aided 1062 but if she would have ran a 1068 right or 1082 then we wouldn't be making this
video right it wouldn't have been as big a news so just a couple tenths of a second which the
amount of time that takes you to blink is like three to four tenths of a second so faster than
a blink of an eye ends up being the difference between somebody that is really world renowned
before her time or somebody that is just you know runs another really good time right so it ends
up coming down to a lot of small nuances as the point of your sprinting so you have to be able to
focus on this stuff you have to be able to look at yourself actually running you also have to be able
to have some quality coaching to be able to help you in assisting what is it that we need to be
able to change within your running form in order to really make it so we can make some positive
improvements in a very short period of time you don't have a long time to be able to get yourself
into a position where you're able to really compete for you know things like the olympic
trials the oblivion game you know i think there's a lot of people that are watching this channel
that have really high aspirations in terms of what it is they want to accomplish but then stuck
in getting some mediocre results and what they're currently doing within the training program so if
you're looking to have really high expectation and high results and high goals you have to be able to
actually get that within whatever training program that you're doing if you're getting
mediocre results that's not going to lead to top tier performance you have to be getting great
results in order to get yourself into the position to compete at a olympic games or even to be able
to run you know in those low tens you know or even into the nines area so if you guys are interested
in being able to get some breakdowns some help within your speed i highly recommend you guys
checking out some of the links in the description below it will really help you out a ton and really
make it so you can make a lot of big improvements within your sprinting in a very short period of
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