hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're
going to be talking about foot contact time and we'll start the video right now
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we're gonna head right into it alright so over the last few months what i've really been able to
recognize is it seems like the biggest difference between uh top sprinters and you know the novice
printers are people that are getting higher numbers when it comes to the 40 the 60 the 100
whatever it ends up going a lot into the full contact time so today i really want to go into
how to improve your foot contact time some drills and some ways to be able
to progress that the first thing that is the most important thing you have to understand is
where you want to be landing when you're striking the ground seeing right and the first thing that i
see is that that causes a longer full contact time is if we're landing more on the outside part of
the foot more of the inside part of the foot right and potentially even if you turn your foot out too
much right because when you land and we see some guys have good good foot contact times that end up
turning their their feet out slightly but at the end of the day what we want to be able to do is
we want to be able to land as far forward in that foot as possible and as much underneath the hip
as possible so the first thing that we're going to do is we're just going to work on going high knees
getting the knees up and the common mistake that i see when people do high knees is they don't
put a focus on knee up toe down knee up toe down so we're just gonna go ahead and do that
in high knees just put a big emphasis on getting the knees up right and then getting that toe
back down as i'm striking the ground to make it so i'm getting a nice
bouncy effect when striking the ground the next part that goes into this is going to be improving
our horizontal force in the ground right so when we're striking we don't want to be too much and
you know i know in high knees we're working on just doing this but really what we want to be able
to start working on from here the next progression is going to be getting some horizontal contact so
we want to be able to still get behind these up but now we're going to get this horizontal
contact back down into the ground right so we're going to get a little bit of knee extension to
make it so i can get right back in underneath me i don't need to necessarily get a lot of extension
but i want to make it so i get some extension so that i could land right back underneath me
now that's it from there i'm going to work on bounce right and this is going to be just a
big focus on spending the least amount of time on the ground as possible so i'm just pounding here
then i'm just getting nice and springy and really being able to the best that i can hit the ground
and pop right back off the ground okay and then from there i want to be able to just progress
it so i'd go into a faster running so i'll just go into like more like 80 90 percent again just
focusing on where i'm landing and making sure that i'm it's in the best position as possible so i
need a great posture here and i need to make sure that i'm landing with my foot right underneath my
hip as i'm going to be able to really understand what ends up being the you know main part of being
able to help you in improving your contact time and then what i would do right is be able to watch
myself sprint and see how well am i doing those drills right if i need to be able to focus on one
part remy i'm not feeling bouncy enough we need to do more bounds maybe i'm not landing in the right
position i need to practice more of that that drill maybe i don't have my right toe position
then i'll just would really focus on that right knees you could just go marching right and be able
to really work on how you're striking the ground and make it so you get that rhythm right but get
this same view from the side and you need to have any crazy type of technology in order to really
see what's going on when you're going through your sprint you just got to be consistent with it right
and and all you wanted to be able to do is again just get that side view and i'll show you here
what i would do here and be able to work on getting quickly on and off the ground
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