alright what's up everyone Morey Croson here from the performance lab in California and we're gonna
do another breakdown here today on say Saquon Barkley I think Saquon Barkley is probably the
best prospect you know out there for sure and one of the best prospects that we've seen in a
long time in terms of know guys that are going to you go in the NFL me know it's almost like can't
mess with this guy I mean there's just so much you could do super school well we also we did a video
about him doing of him doing a power clean I'm not too long ago and so I thought today we would just
go ahead and go into him doing his his 40-yard dash is to kind of go into what his mechanics
are here so we'll just hope go ahead hop right into the breakdown so what really makes him so
unique is his ability to really utilize the core and when he gets going here and I guess there's
two parts of it the other part is that he has what's called like a deeper hip socket so his
femur the bone here sits a little bit further back in a socket which then makes it so he can
get a little bit more you build up a little bit more strength use a little more time to build
up strength or the he's in a better position to I guess create power out at a hip extension I guess
power is the better way to put it and the reason because it is because that is is where the femur
sits just gives you a little bit more ability to access the muscles that are in the hips a
little bit more effectively so and again it's just that femur sitting further back and you
can really see that here I because his because his hips leading so far back now that he has a
little bit more space to drive the knee up and he also has a little bit more ability to activate the
his glutes and hamstrings for a little longer period of time which helps them really in that
acceleration process especially when you sync that up with somebody that has a very very strong lower
back and so for each one of these steps notice how his spine stays pretty well aligned you can
see how everything is there and but that doesn't put any strain on throw to his legs his legs still
have a lot of range of motion again that's just because of that hip socket where it's sitting so
because his spine is there's also very strong as well is really strong and as he gets going here
you can really see that he has such a huge kind of like his lumbar erectors the muscles in that
low part of his back are just very very active very very strong which helped him and controlling
the pelvis and then with that again with that hip being in the position that's and then it makes it
so then he has more overall range of motion to to create power to create force if you have the the
muscle to to go along with that so that's what makes him very very unique is that he has just
a good really good set of muscle that really helps a lot and especially that kind of that core core
area hip area so notice that I wish I could we could see like so right here you can see I mean
even and how he's running right there he's going through a good amount of range in each one of his
legs but even as he's doing that you don't really see his back going into very much extension it's
all pretty pretty locked in there as quarters so strong it's so locked in that's amazing so he can
generate as much power he doesn't and why it's so good those Olympic lifts where I knew there's
a good job with his breathing as well you tell its XO X hailing there this one not as good of a start
as in the first one he didn't do as good this one was so I mean for four to four for one basically
basically the same and the reason I was just fast through that because I want to see the front so
as he goes shoot through the front again same type of thing now notice how he did that there
though look at how he pushes off so starting on the front leg or started starting pretty even and
then as he goes he's shifting his weight from kind of a little bit more on this side to generating a
little bit more force onto the left leg the back leg and then drives hard through and so it's a big
shift from his from weight on the middle side to weight onto the leg that's back to then weight on
to the leg that is pushing off right and then from there does a good job of getting right back with
this foot over to the side so you can see how much his his weight is all shifted over the side there
see that how he has so much weight distributed over to like the left side the whole angles all
shifted then from there you know it almost looks like he's gonna be moving towards his right our
left but then he's able to then do a good job of bringing that right through that right leg
through pretty straight to make it so he actually doesn't lose very much space from one side to the
other right so he's does a good job being able to run run straight each one of his steps are pretty
straight even though his hips are shifting so much to the side as he gets into that that beginning
phase and does a good job of transitioning into getting up so he has great acceleration especially
for as big as he is then once he gets going it's really a lot of the same type of things right it's
it's really quite amazing how well he's able to kind of push off and how when he pushes off his
legs are almost you know his hips and and his feet is you can see how his feet are so far inside of
his hips but then he pushes off he pushes off in a way to make it so then he has a little bit
more range to drive that foot back behind his leg and then from there drive it straight through and
you can see even more on the left side notice how that left leg he landed that left like so
far inside which makes is always creating a lot of external rotation in that leg and then from there
he pushes off right and then he drives right back through but there's there's actually movement in
in there so he does the same thing here where he's landing he's having to decelerate that
movement with him when he pushes off and it has a lot to do with how like wide his hips are and and
how again that my hips sits in the socket where he could then have so much of a transition in
in his hips from one side to the other and have so much control as he's doing itself you know
essentially it does doesn't a phenomenal job of being able to almost step and cross his feet over
which typically is a inefficient movement right we usually talk about how you know when you don't
really want to be crossing over but for him he uses that crossover to really be able to access
his like quads and the outside part of his hips which were his big strength and he uses that kind
of power production to to push off now I do still think that he's gonna end up having a little bit
more risk here and you know if he's going really fast and somebody kind of goes for the ankles he's
gonna have a little more of an exposure to having ankle stuffing you can even see the ankles are a
little bit kind of underdeveloped under worked in comparison to you know knees and calves and things
like that are all really really strong but ankles because of how he moves like that that's gonna be
a little bit more at risk you might end up also having some risk for like plantar fasciitis and
things like that and the feet but you know that that stuff that that you know you can you can
obviously trade forward it for injury prevention but yeah I think that the it's just a you know
in terms of how he develops for some crates for such a rare thing where he's going and he's able
to start here and push so much in the outside there and he's really creating a lot of internal
rotation see how much foot internally rotating there so he's using glue he's doing hamstrings
excellent way to control the the body and generate generate power there and and yeah I mean I think
there's a lot of things that that show that he's gonna be a very very explosive very very hard guy
to stop the NFL and I can't wait to just to see them play so as always guys thanks for watching
videos I hope you guys learned a lot I think big thing with with sake one is understanding
the core and the pelvis and kind of that deep pelvis socket as well as understanding kind of
that you know your foot landing and how you should be transitioning within your feet in
order to maximize your performance alright hope it makes sense if you have any questions let us
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