hey what's up everyone morey croson here and
today we're going to be breaking down shacarri richardson's contact time and
how she's able to just bounce off the ground and the video starts right now
all right so many of you know that shacarri richardson ran a 10-7-4
this weekend at the golden gates and when i was watching a run it really stood out to me
is just how she has this amazing ability to really just yeah bounce off the ground
when she's running and really wanted to go more into how she's doing that give you guys
a better understanding of what that looks like the full contact time and you know just break
everything down there so we'll go ahead and hop right into that now you know we obviously
have shacarri chips in here and you know for her to be already running you know 10 seconds
this early on is you know definitely a great thing to be able to set her up for the the
future and the olympics they're going to really just focus on her full contact time so first we
want to get like a number here of you know how much time she's spending on the ground let's see
i want to get a good one in terms of when that frame that one looks pretty good so that one she
hits the ground one six four five nine and then she's off the ground you know probably six seven
right and so that's uh 0.08 on that one right so you might even be off the
ground right there so 0.07 to 0.08 in terms of the foot contact time
which is amazing there's pretty good on the timing there as well 16479
and yeah again right about 1.07.08 in terms of the you know foot contact time which is a great place
to be and the big thing that you know she does is she has a great ability to maintain dorsiflexion
right and she's able to land with that foot right underneath the hip you can tell she has you know
ton of determination and you know i'm super excited to see her continue to really flourish
in the track and field because you could just tell you know how determined she is to be able to to be
one of the fastest uh women ever and i really do think she has a chance to be able to compete with
you know definitely for the gold medal but also for flojo and you know her world record time i
think she has i mean she's only 21 years old you know shacarri richardson and he's already running
you know what should have been 10-6 you know with the with the wind being what it is i
mean i think she's definitely set up for when she goes in the olympics to be able to run a
you know 10 6 maybe even 10.5 and so really what we're looking at here and i know
from the angle and how the finish line's kind of blocking the actual foot contact and and you
know how she's pulling that leg up underneath but notice how she's maintaining dorsiflexion really
well here and really staying on the inside part of the foot during that that landing form and that's
critical here and being able to then swiftly get right back off right i see a lot of people
that end up having a lot more weight kind of back in their feet and then also more weight on the
outside part of the foot during the landing or really when you can land on the inside part of
the foot and then we've noticed this and then kind of twisting that heel outwards during the push off
it's going to really maximize the most amount of force production that you can generate
in the leg as well as make it so you're able to be as quick as possible as you're transferring
through and i think she does a little bit better job on that right side of maintaining a little bit
more dorsiflexion and landing and then the other big thing is really trying to land you know right
underneath you so when you're when you're pushing off and able to get that heel again notice how
her heel is kind of turning out during that push off that allows her to get a little bit more
verticality in the movement and when you choose to use vertical because that heel gets so up
when you turn that that heel outwards as well you get that that heel high makes it so you
can really push your body up that gives you the time to be able to swing that leg through
and really land with that foot as close underneath your hip as you can right because the big thing
that we want to be able to optimize is being able to land with the feet as underneath this as
we possibly can right and then once the foot lands being able to very swiftly then push right back
off the ground because really when it comes to force production force production is generated
in this part of the movement pattern right so foot comes out in front and is then pulled back
underneath and that's where all the force ends up being generated as you're running right so you can
watch her here as she's going to the finish see like look at that that stride right there look
at how high she is in her body position and then really pulling that leg back underneath
so when she's landing she's landing with that leg basically perfectly straight right and then she's
able to then transfer right back off very quickly right into the next step right that's what makes
it so it looks like she's almost floating as she's running is because she's able to so swiftly get
that foot out in front of her right and then as soon as that foot touches the ground she's
right back up and i love this just because these are the mechanics that we teach and she does it
flawlessly and you know she makes it look so easy in her ability to actually make it happen so
i'm very very talented and again i just feel like she's going to continue to flourish just because
she has such great technique in her you know body mechanics and so as she continues to you know work
on like the start like this start when you when you ran the 1074 didn't look great you know so
she there's still some parts of her mechanics that can improve that will just make it so you know and
we all know like a great start could easily be a tenth of a second right and so just with that
you know going and let's say a tenth comes from the the wind right and that goes gets her down
to ten six four because we already talked about how you know in this race she already had a bit
of a wind issue and then we knock out another tenth from the the start right and just by that
she gets down into the ten five fours at 21 you know um and so i think that there's she has a ton
of potential to be able to yeah definitely compete with lojo i know that that might end up being you
know something that is you know crazy but you know to me at 21 i also think also already able to run
1074 is a huge accomplishment and you know i think that she's going to be able to run 10-6 you know
later this year so um you know definitely rooting for shacarri to continue to do some great things
and you know hopefully this all makes sense to you in terms of understanding how to maximize the full
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