what's up everyone this is Morey Croson from the performance lab of California we're gonna
do another breakdown here today on Yohan Blake on his nine six nine hundred meter dash I love doing
these sprint breakdowns they are so informative so interesting and this is hopefully not going
to disappoint so the big thing that I'm actually gonna talk about here is one of the one big thing
that happens with with the Elan Blake that everybody talks about is he has a very very
effective get off and I think that what this race shows is what his capabilities are I mean in the
hundred meter dash there's just so much difference between you know running 969 for instance even
something like 999 right so you know timing wise it seems like I guess a huge difference but in
terms of how the actual race is won there's not a huge difference right so if we look into because
we can see you know you want Blake around nine six nine here and you can try it again and probably
run you know a little bit over ten right or you know high higher nines right so there's there's
times when we see these same guys run different different times all kind of around the same number
on all obviously elite I mean you know I'm not out there running ten flat in 100 there's not
very many people that are and we're below ten five hundred so but I do think that you know an example
like this shows one the get off that wrote Yohan Blake has and he's going in size and a you also
has a very very effective get off as well and we could see kind of the differences there and then
I'll show how once you get into the top and speed I mean we're in that that you know full speed that
there ends up not being really a ton of difference there the the big difference end up being the
start so big focus here is on the start of Yohan Blake what makes it really good and you transfers
over into seeing how he was able to run nine six not I'm sure you know this might this is probably
one of his better starts and he's also probably working on on hitting some of his efficiency in
the sprint so this was just a combination of doing both of them very well so let's get right into it
here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to come Yohan Blake to Tyson Gay first place second place
and we could see kind of what the differences are in the steps okay and it's all gonna be basically
before this line right here so we could see Tyson Gay gets down his first step right here I'm sorry
Yohan Blake gets down his first step right here Tyson Gay is yet to get down his first step okay
so what ends up being very important is how he Yohan Blake takes this one step that ends up being
I'm pretty not actually very big instead of with the conventional thought processes which is that
you really want to take a big step here with your with your first step and said his is fairly short
but it at least gets it down and gets the power of going so I think that's an important message
and important thing to understand is that maybe that that first step doesn't need to be very far
out maybe it just needs to be get down on the ground so then you can get a good push off on
that next step okay anyway so it's looking to the let's count these steps and show what ends
up being the big difference so we could see Yohan Blake puts down one Tyson Gay now he just put down
his first step okay Dan Yohan Blake's put down a second again a not a very big step okay Tyson Gay
goes and he just put down his second okay and then Yohan Blake just goes and puts down his third now
Tyson Gay that put down his third now Tyson Gay is about to put down his fourth or sorry Yohan
Blake again is gonna put down his four Tyson Gay there's his fourth now you can start to see Johan
skin is starting to catch him in terms of how fast his turnover is there's his fifth you know
on Blake's fifth and now we're gonna see Tyson Gaye's fifth now we're about to see you're on
Blake six and now we're gonna be Tyson's gay so you can see how Yohan Blake starting to pull away
so that's Tyson Gay six now we're gonna see you Lara Blake seventh okay now we're gonna see Tyson
Gay seventh now we're gonna see yohanns eighth and now we're gonna see Tyson's eighth now we're gonna
see Johan's ninth right after Tyson's eighth okay now we're about even now on ten my time we get to
ten now these guys are about even but you can see that Yohan Blake is just a little bit above and
it's funny because it almost seems like it's just the amount that he took in that first initial step
right not a huge difference what's interesting that he still has his head down so he's in a
little bit more of Excel Faye's he's in more of that trying to get to top end speed phase okay
that doesn't necessarily mean that this is the way to go because we see this guy who's still in
the acceleration phase but he looks like he might be in last place so this doesn't necessarily mean
it's a way to go 100 percent I'm just showing the comparisons on how you can you know utilize
different parts of your running technique that can help you really become I guess more efficient
and I think that what he's doing that will seem very interesting is taking Rohan Blake is taking
very fast steps to get going and and it's still picking up really more ground right so even though
he started out by taking longer steps in the same amount of time I guess so in the amount of time
that took Tyson Gay to take nine steps and y'all have wait to take ten steps he's still actually in
front of him which is very crucial and when when you go and end up you know looking at the outcome
of the race okay now Tyson gays are sorry your own place starting to get into acceleration phase
but you could see that timing wise now steps they are about synched up okay Tyson gaze a little bit
in front it looks like then Yohan Blake but this remind you that he's one step ahead and how many
steps do you take so this is 12 step that was his 11 step okay here comes a thirteenth step
for Yohan Blake 12 separate icing gay and now it just starts to become these guys are really
on the same track in terms of each one of their steps okay and they end up being about the same
speed all the way through and you can see how each one of their steps are both taking up about
the same amount of distance they're both taking up you know each one they're hitting the ground
contact and about the same time so this ends up being the critical part of the actual race was
that beginning step and how Yohan Blake was able to get it down looks like once we get to you know
ride around here Yohan Blake starts to pull away a little bit okay so now he's starting to get some
efficiency going that left leg is really you know the leg that Johan place needs to get going and
now that he has he starts to pull away okay that left leg kind of comes across a little bit which
ends up kind of giving being his power leg so once he gets going into this sprint that's what ends up
really affecting his overall power production you can see that he ends up winning bye-bye I'm
out but their steps always end up being aligned and you know again would end up being the big
differentiator is that Yohan Blake had that extra step at the beginning to make it so he'd get that
power and get out in front okay so that was very interesting to see that I would say that you know
for what Yohan could probably improve on where his potential injury risk would be would be on
the left side left groin area I'm convinced that some of the reasons that make these guys you know
injury risks because that left leg you know again that groin area ends up being you know to me a bit
of a potential problem maybe even the inside part of the left hamstring it's probably what
ends up making him very good as well okay so he's able to really get a large amount of extension in
that knee there because his knees a little bit more adductor door closer to the midline then
he can do on this side so this side he has to wait until he get that foot gets a little bit
underneath him before he can extend it while on this one he's extends out when he's still
pretty far out in front with that left leg okay and again that's just because he's getting into
that adduction which means that he's bringing that foot a little bit closer to his midline
okay or closer to us while the left side he's much more kind of bringing everything right on
through okay left side kind of comes comes in you can really see it too as he's going through how
that left one really goes and extends out and so once he gets that thing going I think that
ends up really being the separator here so you know Yohan Blake he's very good acceleration I
think he's also getting getting able to get that you know that top-end speed going very smoothly
and that's why he was able to run that that great nine seconds nine so I hope you guys learned some
stuff wind it with this in terms of acceleration I'm also maybe a little bit in terms of you know
mechanics there's a lot of different mechanics that go into optimizing speed the key thing is
that you just got to be able to look to see what you're doing and look to see where you can make
potential changes potential improvements you know for Johanna I try to make it so you can get
a little bit more asymmetrical and some of this stuff to make it so you could resist injury not
even necessarily changing his running technique but even you know spending a little extra time
stretching out that back groin making sure that those muscles there are strong and able to stretch
fine just to make it so you know that a little bit of overuse that he puts on that left side can be
achieved in his body so that just you know how we kind of look at the the overall mechanics
we want to look to see you know where are areas that are being overused what our areas that are
being underused and let's try to maximize you as a person and make it so you can be as individualized
as possible rather than kind of grouping you into you know a whole group of people and saying you
have to run this way or throw this way or do movement this certain way okay we want to look
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