what's up everyone Morey Croson here from the performance lab of California and we're going
to do another breakdown here today on Alvin Kamara we got a recommendation to do an outfit
chimera breakdown I thought that was overall a good person to to break down and see a little
bit more about how they sprint and what's their technique what is their form so I'm
gonna go ahead and break that down we'll go and have them actually go through the sprint here to
show a little bit more of what that looks like and I mean one of the big big things that you
know notice just by kind of watching just how overall smooth he looks when he's running and
you know a little bit more into what makes him look so kind of natural as he's going through
the actual sprint so we'll go and hop right into it first I want to say - this is a big
guy right 510 1/4 214 pounds so for how tall he is 510 being 215 pounds that is and overall
a very thick person and for the fact that he ran for five three being that big is very very
impressive now one of the things that I think are important in this I think helps a lot his
acceleration is he has a very unique ability to maintain about the same spine position especially
here on that first step he really likes it to be in this kind of rounded over spine and he's
able to maintain that pretty good while he's even accelerating right so notice how he's
got that again he that spines kind of leaned over like that but he's he's almost like that
now his head is a little bit closer down to the ground here at the very beginning but when he's
going he always has that kind of rounded spine positioning so notice how as he as he's going
now that that heads a little bit more upwards but he still got all that that horn will come through
he's still got a kind of forward spine position okay again he's a little bit more upright as he
as he goes so his head's in different position but even when he's first starting off here you
know and when you watch him play football and run you could see that he a lot of times in this this
position were that that spine is rounded so what that does it makes it so that he's able
to achieve a more similar running style earlier on in his sprinting form than somebody who you
know when they first get off they're in a very low or maybe having much more of a knee bend
or their spine positions a lot different a lot of times when you're first beating your sprint
you're in a very very overall different spot than you are when you were running full speed
how about cámaras not in that same boat he's able to achieve a pre similar spine position basically
right away then he's going to that he's gonna have when he's actually sprinting what helps
him tremendously really transfer that speed into performing in in the NFL because that just means
that he does not have to spend very much wasted motion in or voice of time and acceleration is
acceleration phase is very very easy for him to overall achieve right and notice that as he's
going here he doesn't have much his stride length is really in a good position as well
right he hasn't lose very much struggling so he's able to really open up drive those knees and push
off and one of the things that I would say that going back to what makes them very smooth when
he's running is he does have a little bit longer foot contact time so notice how his foot lands out
especially let's go back here real quick so when he's going before ten yards he's landing and his
foot pretty far out in front of him right there and he has to maintain that spine position and
he's owning a knee and he's driving off that back leg Lance spends a good amount of time driving
off that back leg so now again what is that that make it so he's able to do what is that transfer
over to one that transfers over to overall much more power so he's generating a lot of power off
of each one of the stuff he's done necessarily very quick just did a recent breakdown of crystal
cafe as well where he's got tremendous overall foot turnover right he's just not spending very
much time on the ground with each one of his steps he's very very quick just boom boom boom boom boom
very touchy with that the the feet where alvin kamara is on the opposite side of the spectrum
where he's spending more time on the ground with each one of these steps but he's really getting a
lot with his overall stride length and his stride distance but by spending more time on the ground
that's big and so he's able to take hits better right he's creating overall more power so he has
so much strength and power in those legs you can really take on you know somebody trying to hit
him in these he has all that time on the ground to be able to adjust and react to taking on the
the force than being able to push off or generate power from each one of his push off flakes so you
know there's there's two thought processes behind I'm sprinting or there's two things that I've
seen a lot of from a spiritual perspective one is that you could be very very quick with your foot
contact time I mean obviously I mean we saw if we saw him run so he's not bad with full contact
I'm around four or five right so it's not like his foot contact time it's really really long but one
of the reasons it makes it look so he's so smooth is because he does have with his running style and
overall longer foot contact time because he's landing with his foot a little bit more out in
front of him and then he has to transition all of his weight forward and then he does spend a
good amount of time until he actually extends off of that back leg so you know both of those are on
the very very edge he's touching the ground at a position that's you know not too far out in front
but very close to being too far out in front and then he's pushing off at a time where it's not
too far back behind you but very close to win your foots too far back behind you so he's kind
of honing the line or you know stepping on very close to the line on each side of it and that
again makes it so he's just able to generate all that power and maintains up to high level balances
and you watch them run it's like man how can he be such an overall physical guy and still be able to
run so fast and just because he's able to spend so much time on the ground really generate a lot
of force in each one of his steps and you know the other thing is he is a very big person I was very
surprised to see 510 215 pounds again that is a very big dude I mean obviously that's not he's
got 6 3 he's not tall necessarily but he's big sig 5 10 to 15 I mean that's a thick even if you're
510 185 that's a good size overall person in terms of thickness and everything like that would mean
you know 5 10 to 15 and being able to run 4 or 5 I mean that is that is really good and how he
runs 4 or 5 is again he uses all that lower body strength to to just generate so much overall power
in each one of his steps that you know just makes them very very fast and able to run as such an
overall physical guy so hope you guys enjoyed that breakdown this is gonna be more for people that
watch football because I think that people watch football really be able to understand what makes
this guy they'll be interested in understanding how he's having the successes having and I think
by being able to watch this breakdown and really listen more than watch it I think you'll be able
to give them good understanding of what's going on and what makes them overall a great running
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