what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we're gonna do
another breakdown today on Tori Bowie a sprinter out of the USA she's there in Lane six here they
didn't know we want to do is I mean I think Tori is one of the up-and-coming sprinters here in the
USA in really just in track and field in general that's a great background story definitely would
recommend you guys checking that out but more portly we just wanted to go over some of the
things that she could probably improve in in order to help her get to an even better and
better sprint and achieve even more so we'll go and get it going she ran a 10-8 here but you know
big thing I'd say is gonna be at the beginning phases so you know really and everybody's a
little bit different with how their alignment is you could see that she's you know very upright
in her initial visual fade you know it looks like her first step is a pretty good step you know she
does a good job driving gets that that leg up and through then waste a good amount of energy with
this step you could see how there's a lot of bend that's going on here within that that foot where
that bend off to the side so if you didn't pick up very much ground in the second step which then
gets her a little bit behind so the third step to come back and then fourth step is again okay
a little bit off to the side and point being when she gets going to like the ten you can see that
she's one of the last place people here I mean it seems like these two are probably the two
furthest behind out of the bunch and even as they get going you can see that she everybody else by
now is looking up and she's the only one that's still looking down and still kind of has that
that downward posture within her head and then once she looks up right here boom now she looks
up now watch what happens as soon as she actually looks up boom now she was able to totally open up
and immediately just start sketching all of these girls as soon as she starts looking up now she's
able to start straightening out and to me she probably could have started looking up about right
here right there's no reason why she shouldn't be looking up right now basically everybody else is
she's just kind of staying in that acceleration phase for a little bit too long right here she
should be or you know earlier she should be looking up because once she does open up now
she's eight or look up then she's able to fully open up with her body now she gets that postural
line and is really capable to drive back hard with both of her legs now one of the big advantages
that she has this she has very long legs and still is able to maintain a lot of stabilization within
her overall ankles there I mean the right leg is so good look at how well she doe she goes into
driving that right knee up and then pulling that right leg underneath her and then pulling right
back behind her left leg not as good with pulling that foot out in front so she'll probably work on
a little bit of hamstring range of motion between behind that left leg in order to help get a little
bit more speed you can see how she bends a little bit more within that left knee in comparison the
right side look how straight she goes with that right knee when she lands very little bed as she
pushes right back off then again we'll compare that to the left side where she has a lot more
bend in the knee as she's transitioning in so I'd say definitely needs to work on her ability to
stabilize it then probably good you could probably start with in the left foot but also being able to
get a little bit more mobility through that that left knee and she and I would say this or anybody
that is a big-time track sprinter you know she ended up winning this and she ended up winning
it let me look how good she can't shouldn't no coming back again I mean that was just phenomenal
once you started looking up how how well she was able to really accelerate but she won this
because she leaned forward with her head alright this is a similar situation of the scene before
where you know the person here in lane 3 she got her foot across the line first but because Tory
got her head across that made it so she was able to actually claim the victory here which is you
know definitely something you'd want to be aware of it means as long as she would have put her head
across she would end up winning this race she is a little bit more out in front overall but she just
reached with the way she could see how she just would thought she needed to reach with the leg and
she'd be good where Tory goes and reaches with the head and actually gets the win because she
reached with the head so definitely importantly to think about as well also you know overall one
of the big things that I've been talking to people about is as you're transitioning if we look nobody
will rewind back a little bit watch notice how here with we're towing how and she's going into
extension how she almost reaches extension with that left leg so here's probably maximum extension
that she gets within that left leg and then here's where she gets to Magnus essential within
the right arm right and point being is that she reaches matching max extension within the left leg
before she gets to max extension within the right arm so you want to be able to fully extend back
with your legs and and then therefore transition that leg up and back forward before you do it
before you get to extension within the arm okay that's a very important concept to understand say
it one more time you want to be able to achieve maximum extension within the leg and therefore
begin transitioning the leg back through before you reach max extension with the arm and begin
transferring with the arm back through I see a lot of people that end up not having that capability
where they're reaching back and reaching max extension with the arm first before their leg and
I think that the big reason why you wouldn't be as fast as a overall sprinter because what happens is
if you get stuck with that that leg and extension after you get your arm an extension now you don't
have as much time to drive that that meet up and through so because she gets her so much extension
within the leg first now she has plenty of time to be able to drive her knee up and through and make
it so she has the ability to get better extension that's even on the left side where she doesn't get
as much extension as well on the right side she doesn't even a better job we just can't see the
outside as clearly so yeah as always guys thanks for watching these videos we have any questions
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