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the performance lab at california and we have another new breakdown for you today on the high
jump a 2.4 3 meter high jump by Mutaz Barshim this was when a that's right now I think this
is the second-highest high jump that we've ever seen and you know it was a fairly recent one I
also want to do the world record as well but we'll get we'll get started here just overall
better quality just get into some some things that we can learn about some things that we can
you know utilize as high jumpers to you know be able to achieve more and so you know I'm right
from the start here you see he's kind of warming up I want to go through all the different phases
as much of the phases as I can here I don't want to make it so it's too long of a video and make it
so it's watchable but I also want to give you guys as much information as we can so here is just kind
of chattering his legs there's when he takes his first step right there so that second step third
step these are all fourth step these are all shorter steps well look notice how he's getting
knees high and extending with full legs there this is the first time he takes really a big step there
boom get those knees going and this one actually tries to like push off of that bad step and look
at how high up he is with that extension really driving the knee up that's a eight step I want
to say ninth step you can see really putting a big focus on driving the knee up and then from there
look at how early he goes into an extension there and you know these are this is important being
able to work on driving that knee up and creating extension is an important part in establishing a
loading process for your your body to be able to maximize the overall force production so that's
why we're going more in depth here boom getting full extension one more step here where you get
a lot of extension and then being able a lot of knee height and then extends from there
this is the first one where it really shortens it up a little bit more and he's beginning that
that initial process of really driving towards the towards the pole towards the Hydra area now
what I think is important here is looking to see how he loads his his shoulder and then we're gonna
also get into some very very specific loading techniques that he does within the down leg so
you can see here not as high but again look how straight he is and then also look at how much
he's able to land on the outside part of the foot this is very important you gotta be able to land
on the outside part of the foot here okay now he loads big shoulders look how high right he raised
up his shoulder so now he could really sink down so now he's starting to sink right that look at
how much he'll look much he bent on that on that me right there in comparison to you know where
he was that before so you see how he didn't really Bend as much here okay now in this leg he goes and
really is able to sink down tonight is creating a lot of downward force presses off here and now
this one look at how he lands up with this leg right look at how far out in front is you want
to take video of yourself the idea of doing this is to make it so you can understand to take video
of yourself and be able to utilize that video and breaking yourself down and establishing how
you can achieve more as a high jumper right so look at how far out he gets with his foot out
in front of them and then he's able to decelerate right so when he decelerates is another big thing
look at how much he'd bend the knee there and he's actually able to go into him some valgus which is
you know it's not an area that a lot of people want to go into but he still is able to achieve
that right so point being is that he's able to you know allow that knee to bend a good amount keep
that hip on the outside and this allows him to you know have a good amount of his weight really on
like the inside part of his foot I know you can we can't see it super well the quality isn't amazing
but he's actually into like pronation so we look at his foot he has a lot of his weight right about
here and now when he goes and he pushes off he actually goes into external rotation right so see
how when he's pushing off he's externally rotating and twisting his body this is opposite of what you
end up doing when you do like a layup for instance or you're trying to you know jump over a hurdle
those that's that that jump is gonna be much more on the ball of your foot he's actually externally
rotating and twisting out and pushing out like that with his foot as he's jumping ah seated see
how his foots turning like that which is why that deceleration is so important so he goes
need accelerates he bends and he he lets his knee actually come in words like that so then he can go
in and create torque outwards as he's jumping so he's going in twisting see how much he's able to
twist there and that's what helps him really get that air off the ground he's being able to twist
like that nut that makes it so as much as he's moving forward that way now he stops and it gets
a lot of force going upwards right so that's what makes it so it's a very horizontal movement I mean
he's very far away he's moving a lot this way but he's moving very fast this way too we didn't end
up also having to jump a long way up and over it's not like he's just doing a straight vertical jump
he's going up and over in order to to make this happen the reason he's able to do that is because
of how much momentum and ability decelerate he is from you know going going in that horizontal
direction so now from there he's going up and now notice when he comes up here he gets that hand
right up and over he gets his fight up it over and notice as soon as he can get his hand up and over
he just allows that that head to drop right look how his head just drops like a rock right so he's
allowing himself to get so much extension in the back because of how well he's able to just allow
his neck to come over and drop and now as soon as he feels himself get up and over as soon as
he's in Matt's neck extension there now he's going to tuck his chin hard hard tuck his chin hard tuck
his chin hard tuck his chin and and use that to drive his legs up and over right so he's using a
lot of that lower core to make it so he can get up and over there and achieve the actual jump just an
amazing job so technically sound of being able to get up and over allow that head to get over
and be able to squeeze that lower core dry that chin to his chest he could have actually done a
better job he'd you know soon as he got to here if we're gonna break it down my milliseconds as
soon as he got to here I would say now you'd want to go and start tugging that chin and get up and
over and he would let me what you cleared it by and then he almost ended up hitting it because he
was a little bit late and driving up his chin to his chest so once he could drive up to that chin
to his chest a hundred percent on the right time he's gonna easily easily get that world record so
yeah I'm looking I'm looking forward to see bar team actually achieve that and actually jump oh
really seems like he's a pretty young guy so I know he's working hard I'm sure he's gonna be
able to to beat that that world record hopefully the upcoming Olympics here in 2020 so yeah very
excited to see that you guys have any questions for me would be would be happy to you know answer
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