hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California gonna do another
speed breakdown here today on Chris Taylor he is a sprinter out of Jamaica up-and-coming guy we
had a few people that reached out to us to do his speed breakdown so we thought we would do that as
always we're trying to as fast and as quickly as possible get all the recommendations that we're
getting both from a quarterback perspective but then also for mrs. Clinton perspective and also
trying to add a little bit new touch you know we did the Christiano and although we got a lot of
people that talked about Gareth Bale we're gonna do Clarabel fulfil breakdown as well so yeah we're
just gonna try to get as many video got out there to you guys to get more information about the
proper mechanics in order to run faster jump high or move better throw harder stay healthy all the
things that go into that so unfortunately for this I wanted to get first a like 100 unfortunately
we're not able to get the the beginning part of this video there's a lot of videos that he
has it just weren't really good quality I'm in a lot of videos that I think he's more of
a 400-meter runner but I wanted to get more of the sprint just because that gives a really good
indication of what he's doing I'm from a technical perspective when it comes into the the 400 meter
run yeah there's a lot of technique involved with that as well but it really ends up being
the same technique that he's doing he's just able to maintain it over a longer period of time okay
so we'll get hot right into the to the breakdown again unfortunately we didn't get the original
beginning but just looking at this we could see a lot about overall technique right Chris Taylor
is a guy that's obviously been trained I've been working on his craft and you could see you know
he's probably about four steps in here would be my would be my guest over between three to five
look at the height between some of these other guys and Chris Taylor right here in the middle
and these guys are probably you know the the tube better sprinters out of this hole basically and
you can see the big difference in their story right so if you're trying to get faster and
you're not putting a huge impact on your start then you're not doing everything that you can in
order to help you become the best printer that you can you can see how he's already getting out to a
good lead just because he's able to have good mechanics in his starting really getting good
spine angle right so he's at a good 45 degree degree angle and still getting the long strides
still concentrating on getting great hip drive great knee flexion and and and hip flexion as
he's coming through that's the big concentration when you're starting out guys it's about getting
very good keeping a good 45-degree angle within the spine right so you don't want to be up right
here this would be closer to 90 degrees you want to be at a 45 you'll want to be too low either
I'd say this guy Mighty Mite he's not even out of great 45-degree angle you can see how
he's bending here in the spine 245 is a straight spine right and so you can see Chris Taylor does
better job to keeping a good angle here that's an important concept to understand okay now as you're
in that 45 degree angle we also need to put a big concentration on continuing to get that great hip
Drive okay so if you have to be up to 90 degrees in order to get your knee up then you're not doing
as much as you can to work on the acceleration you want to be able to keep that 45 degree angle and
put a big concentration on that hip drive together at the same time and that's gonna be the key part
of being able to really excel from the sprint perspective and then from there you could start
getting into your overall top-end speed so from here we're gonna continue to go into the ability
to now he's gotten the out of his beginning acceleration phase he's starting to go into
his top-end sprint and from here he's gonna go in and start opening up and when you start to open
up now you're gonna get into the longer sprint cycle where the concentration becomes on really
getting more vertical press off the ground and also being able to get a great pullback in that
front leg as you're taking each one of the steps and that's what Chris Taylor does a really really
good job of so as he goes and extends out in his step he's going to get that full knee extension
right so see how he's getting up that leg to be completely straight and then from there pulling
back that leg and make it so that leg lands right up underneath them and now when he can when your
leg is up underneath you in comparison to here where you can see how the leg is back behind him
he's gonna get more of a horizontal press off the ground okay we're and the shin angle is not
great where Chris Taylor he's gonna be a lot more upright shin angle and so when he pressed off the
ground and it's gonna transition to make it so it's not perfect there but when he transitions
off he's going to make it so it ends up being a vertical press and you do want to transition to
make it so your angle doesn't end up to be super vertical but you don't also want to transition and
even in his initial landing phase his knee is out in front of his ankle a little bit okay you want
to bake it so when you land that that tibia this bone here is that exact 90 degrees okay notice how
when when Chris Taylor lands how that's straight okay now when he transitioned his his angled never
gets to that deep of a shin angle he's pretty vertical and how his push-up is and that makes
it so when he pushes off it's much more of again a vertical force okay that's excellent excellent
I always talk about how you know those elite level sprinters they look so similar in that lower body
and and Chris Taylor falls right under that where he does a great job in each one of his transitions
of extending out pulling back in it and as he's getting more and more speed he gets more extension
than me I get the better better pullback and keeps his his foot right up underneath him
as he's transitioning through okay now one of the things that he can work on and a lot of times you
know there's differentiation between the upper body so with him he can get a little bit better
posture position especially when he's going with this left leg through and bringing the left leg
or left arm back to his left legs coming forward left arm going back he kind of comes and you can
see how is the swing is of the arm he's kind of coming off to the side he also makes it so the
initiation of the arm swings happening whether the arms out in front of them the really really great
sprinters and he does a good job on the right side well when he's coming down he's putting
a big emphasis on when once that hand gets to the the hip now is when he really is able to
drive back and it has an excellent excellent arm extension or going backwards with that bad
shoulder okay on the left side his emphasis is is there he puts a lot of force there and he doesn't
get as much of an arm swing back which is gonna impact his ability to really get that as clean a
leg drive on the left side it's also gonna make it so it impacts his ability when it comes back
through to get great core synchronization with the right hip so he could have you know potential of
having too much too overworked right hip flexor too overworked right groin something along those
lines because he's not using his core as good to help bring the right leg up he's using a lot of
his hip flexors and can overwork there a little bit okay again you can see look at how that arms
kind of getting away from his he's going back that left arm when he's driving that left that
left our left leg up and through okay then again going back onto his right side very clean very
clean how he's going right back there you know his hands very close to his body he's going straight
back and you could even see how he gets good T spine rotation opens up good to us towards his
chest and then he goes back to the other side doesn't open up as good there you could still
almost see his chest on this side as he's bringing that left leg or the sorry that left arm back so
you know there's important parts of utilizing your upper body to make it so the whole overall
sprint can be a little bit more efficient and effective that can really allow you to I think
with Chris Taylor's case really make it so you can resist a potential injury and also add some more
speed because really he can allow himself to get a little bit more core activation which will make it
so that he gets a little bit more right hip flexor activation which will impact his ability to get
that turnover out of that right leg he has really good turnover already where he gets that knee out
in front extends it pulls back underneath but he was able to get even more out of it then you know
he would take the end up running 10-4 here so he'd be able to take that ten four and make it
closer to whatever 10 - who knows what it ends up going down to it's just the consistency of working
on the mechanics working on the techniques making it so you can better access all the muscles that
you can utilize and that will make it so then you can improve your overall sprint as always
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