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hey what's up everyone it's Morey from the performance lab of California and we have
another great breakdown for you today on running the curve with Wade Bailey Kirk from South Africa
Africa so the the big thing that that stands out with Wittering the Cartman the reason we
obviously chose Wade mana Kirk is just because of how I mean he has the fastest 400 in the world so
you know there's a guy that knows it well it's got to be him so with that being said we'll go
ahead and hop right into it this is the his 400 she broke the world record in the Olympics oh
and this is that last curve so I just going into it you could see overall sprinting for me that's
a good job maintaining a good upright posture as she's going through he's very similar in each one
of his legs has a lot of extension through both legs has a lot of overall vertical height within
those arms does a great job pushing his body up as he's as he's going through the actual sprint
and now we could see him going in and landing when he's landing he's landing with that left
leg pretty straight and on that one right leg pretty straight but as he gets going around the
curve he ends up changing a little bit of how that that stride looks so now he's going through that
curve and notice how that right legs maintain that a lot of very straight and then that left
leg starts to bend a little bit more during that that contact time so that right leg he maintains
power that kind of that power type of leg while the left leg not as much of a of a straightening
more of a bend but very quick through it that the the right leg has a lot longer stride left
leg has a lot quicker stride as he's going around the curve doesn't really change the posture very
much he's obviously leaning into it and I would just say when you're leaning into anything with
the important that left arm keeps a really big drive and that right arm also keeps a really big
drive as you're you're actually going through the curve so don't don't limit your ability to really
reach with your arms going back during during the curve and then the other there could be a
slight lean in the spine that's not definitely not going to that's not unnatural but you still want
to be able to get a vertical push off you don't want to end up leaning to the sides and then have
your body kind of start pushing you side-to-side you want to be able to even though you're you're
kind of having to slight lean you still want most of that force to maintain a vertical action there
again and then notice how when he's taking these steps that left one even though it kind of comes
in the left foot stays turning out so right leg right there it's easy to maintain a good action
within the right leg but then the left leg you got a good do a good job because it's kind of
coming this way it's kind of coming inwards as you're going down you know the motion of it is
to carrying you in so you have to be able to turn that foot and get that foot off and then still
be very very quick when you're landing with that inside foot so boom that left foots down turning
in and make it so you're very quick there and then also again keeping up with that right leg straight
okay a little bit of a sideways pull with the left arm okay the left arms gonna coming in and
also a little bit going out right I'm doing a good job I was going straight through forward
and backwards as he's going there see how that's going out a little bit out to the side but again
I think big thing is just maintaining that really good upright posture as you're going through it
you're going to limit a little bit more on the inside leg with your foot contact time so you
wanna have a little bit faster foot contact time don't need as much extension there and then your
right leg or outside leg really becomes the power leg that you're you're utilizing to create a lot
of force during that that curve then also maintain that that big arm swing on both
sides the inside arm can come a little bit more across or to counterbalance the lower body so
it's coming across a little bit and that outside arm really is got to be able to reach and maintain
a very straight position during that curve so I just wanted to go in-depth a little bit into
how you can more effectively run that curve to really maximize your overall performance if you
have the questions you can go ahead and go and reach out to me and you know shoot me an email
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