what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be
breaking down martial jacobs and we're going to start the video right now
this is the newest edition of the performance side reach your individual goals you don't want
to talk about straight lines we also want to talk about your ability quick we break
down your video let's make you into the quarterback i know you can become
all right so this is going to be an updated video here on marcel jacobs i think overall you know
he does such a beautiful job just maximizes front side mechanics right and he's running here next to
arthur [ __ ] um right here who is five six right and then you have lemon jacob six one and you know
what ends up being the difference or what's what's amazing to me that i love about you know my jacobs
or marcel jacobs is he has like the same turnover as you know arthur [ __ ] as he's starting off
in that that initial start there right and you know since he ends up kind of getting a little
bit of a lead on him right but martial jacob does such a great job staying through that drive phase
right where he ends up being able to really catch him with that his ability to really
transition through and so what we want to be able to look at here and i have kind of a side by side
of the final and you know the prelims and what's just remarkable with marcel jacobs is he does such
a great job of maintaining such great stability during the landing phase right so you can see he's
landing here we can get a time of 5.542 and he's transitioning off really quickly knows off by 627
right so he's really transitioning fast off of that leg but notice how he doesn't absorb very
much weight during that contact right so you can see what he does here he gets that foot through
and then he really reaches downwards right so he's getting such a good vertical push off
and then really reaches a lot more downwards to make it so he lands in such a nice straight line
within his body and then as he goes through here he immediately gets up onto his toes right he gets
those heels off the ground and then immediately drives those legs through the left side he does
a little bit more of like a reach right so he reaches out and then pulls back with that left
side still lands in a similar position a little bit more out in front you know with his head on
this one hips are a little bit more back but still does a good job of being able to maintain right so
when he lands he lands he sticks it doesn't bend and then when he pushes off he doesn't even really
look like he pushes off very much right he just seems like he just drives that foot right kind
of upwards and then brings the knee through right there's very little bending we can see we've seen
in the past like nora lyles does a lot of knee bend right knee flexion okay but we can see with
marcel jacobs and why he's has such great frontside mechanics you know of course this
is my opinion is because as he transitions off he gets into that 90 degree angle
okay around 90 degree angle and then comes right through
yeah he's close to a 90 degree angle 89 degree angle right and then he's coming straight through
okay so point being is he doesn't bend that foot all the way back right we could see like
you know going back to [ __ ] here you know see how much knee flexion he gets
right that's a lot more of what we typically see where you get a lot of knee flexion right we get
the calf and those hamstrings really close together right where he i mean he does get
the hamstring and the calf close together but not till very late into the cycle right and he does a
great job being able to push off and immediately drive through right so that really requires a lot
of specific activation within his foot within his knees and really a lot of force into it the
ground right so they got to be really working on how well he's able to generate force in the
ground because once he gets to like this top speed and this is the same thing right so he's
he has the same turnover right here as is arthur system except he's you know six inches taller
right so now he's gonna end up being able to pick up a lot more distance per step just naturally
because of his height and also because of how much power he's able to generate into the ground
so once he gets past them he just kind of like lets up here and you know then then stops with
the turnover because he already knows that he you know is qualifying so you know there ends up being
you know something very very important being able to really establish how to be able to generate
that force into the ground with those front side mechanics right so you got to really understand
how to maximize your your front sight because you can see as he's getting into that top speed
you know he has a little bit of a reach right he gets that that you know if we see his knee
his foot is a little bit out in front of his knee but it's not much but then as he comes back and
pulls that foot back underneath he does a great job of just being able to land to be very stable
and then transition right off which makes it so now he's able to you know drive through with
that that knee so fast that now he can really pick up a lot of distance per step and he just
makes it look so easy and being able to maximize that front side mechanics and i think that he
you know really does a great job of building it throughout his entire run right so he starts off
really quick and is very far up onto his toes he has to have great just toe range of motion um
and balance on the tip of his toes right almost like ballet you know dancer how they have such
strong you know feet and strong toesies has to have that same type of capability um and i'm
sure they drilled them sure they worked on it i'm really like there's part of me that wants to go
to italy to be able to see like what are you guys doing um because i could tell that they are really
taking a you know just reading about you know some of the training and stuff like that they're really
taking it very serious on foot contact time on turnover time and how much force he's getting
generated into the ground and you know have the facility to be able to really concentrate on
you know how is his mechanics impacting you know or changing from day to day and i think that you
know once we can really invest into something like that it'll really allow the whole track and
field to make significant improvements in terms of overall development right if we could really see
the difference between you know when somebody runs fast on a you know microscopic level um
and how we can then develop them to be able to run faster right if somebody runs nine seven let's say
where were those mistakes where were the mistakes when you ran 97 and then being able to really
isolate that and be able to say okay this is where you can still improve vertical force horizontal
force turnover time contact time you know posture position whatever ends up being but really be able
to isolate those numbers will really be able to make big improvements within you know track and
field in my opinion so so as always guys if you like the information going click that thumbs up
down below subscribe the channel if you have any questions comments or recommendations you
can leave those down below we'd love to hear from you and we'd love to hear your opinion right we'd
love to hear what your thoughts are about you know where we are from a track and field perspective
do you think usain bolt's going to be holding that 958 for you know 20 years or do you think that you
know what he's going to end up getting beat here in in the the near future and also you know who
do you think ends up having the best technology the best information right now when it comes to
being able to develop sprinters is it china is it italy is it the u.s is it jamaica um we'd
love to hear you guys comments down below and as always thanks for watching we'll talk to you soon