hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be breaking down
matt bowling and joseph fahnbulleh and we'll start the video right now
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all right so we're going to do this video really in preparation for the ncaa championships that
are coming up this weekend and you know the two favorites in the 200 are going to be matthew
boling uh joseph fahnbulleh these are both two of the top sprinters in the world we got fahnbulleh
here and we have matthew boling here and so what we're gonna see is really we'll start with the
start right and this is where and i know i talked about just fumbly start in the past but you know
this is another opportunity to be able to take a look at this and so you know this is where i feel
like you can make the biggest improvements going to be a start and you know one of the mistakes
that he's making here is we talk a lot about this is that first step needs to get down into the
ground right it's about being able to really get that foot down and make it so we're getting more
horizontal force so what happens if you're trying to get distances you're trying to create too much
vertical force you're trying to get two upwards too fast it's not about getting a lot of vertical
force here it's about being able to pick up as much distance forward as possible but we don't
want to do that by pressing off our back leg we want to be doing that by how we're striking down
into the ground okay and so he does a good job with his foot strike the issue is he's putting
too much focus on how he's pushing off the ground so he's getting way too vertical we look even just
compare basically joseph fahnbulleh i know he's taller than a lot of these guys but look at the
difference between a lot of their these guys as starts right they're a lot more horizontal overall
this guy's also pretty vertical as well um but look at how vertical he is this this quickly okay
and again you can see like matthew boling's doing a really good job of staying much more horizontal
so he's able to pick up distance on you know his opponent where and you can see joseph found
a gets caught really quick so this ends up being a bigger gap okay and so the guy you know has a
ton of potential but just makes a lot of mistakes with his technique which is really impacting him
right so now he gets in this position where he's just way behind coming around the curve
right so and and really also isn't maximizing his opportunity to be able
to build speed okay the point of being able to have a great start right to have a great
drive phase is to make it so you're going to be able to build your speed effectively
okay so if you're able to utilize momentum and utilize gravity and utilize you know physics
right to be able to help you and being able to get to your top speed it's going to make it so
it's a lot easier to be able to do that okay and what's important about sprinting
is we want to be able to utilize the most amount of effort at the right times so if we have to
utilize a lot of effort to get ourselves going right or to get started or to be able to get
ourselves into top speed then when we get to top speed we don't have the same fuel tank to be able
to get us through for this race the last hundred right but or if we look at the hundred meter but
maybe the last sixty right if we look at the four hundred meter you know probably that last hundred
or that's the last two hundred okay so the point is we have to be efficient in what it is that
we're doing and understand what that looks like okay and what that looks like is being horizontal
as we're starting off especially during the 200 you want to be patient right i would even say
in 100 also we want to be patient in our in our start and in our drive not that we want to be
you know allow ourselves to get caught but we don't also want to try to get to our top speed
within 10 meters right or our top speed mechanics within 10 meters and i see that mistake a lot
right where people are just like rushing to get themselves into the mechanics that look similar
to their top speed when really they should be more in a drive phase or a horizontal force production
time period within the run instead of so much vertical force being created right and joseph
fahnbulleh is a very very natural sprinter right so he has a ton of potential if you could just get
that that horizontal action going right and then we look to see right where really both of these
guys are our elite right i mean i think magic bowling's got a lot better with his start but he's
always been elite with his ability to you know get to his top speed right joseph fahnbulleh has
had a history of being able to really you know catch guys from behind we can see both of them
you know coming around the the bend here there there's not a ton of of the lead right like both
of them it's all pretty close okay at least in comparison to here until we when we see the end
well you see they really both start to separate so these are undoubtedly the two favorites going into
this weekend right the question is who's going to win uh to me my pick is going to be fanboy
and the reason is is because i think what ends up happening here is you know fondue lay is
able to make some adjustments within the start right may keep it a little bit closer they're
going into it and i think he'll end up going and being able to you know get the victory
i think that you know this ends up being a big race matt i think matthew boling really
wanted to win this and and was peaking more for this race um and i think fahnbulleh will end up
really going more for the ncaas wanting to win that and that will be you know his best race of
the year will be the the ncaa so that's why i'm i'm predicting that you know it's hard to tell to
me it's going to be these two one and two uh but i do think that after losing this race um fahnbulleh
is going to have a part of him that's going to really want to be able to redeem himself and we
saw um you know a similar situation last year with uh matthew boling and i think that he'll end up
you know having to uh learn a little bit from this and be able to get better because you know
when he gets to the top speed so he had a good position going around the curve right and then
what happens is he really and he he and you can see his mechanics here are pretty solid right
i like the smoothness he looks really like he's a able to perform at a high level right he's he's a
very elite level sprinter right but what happens is he gets kind of to the end
and he kind of feels fahnbulleh come in and he starts to kind of flail his wrist a little bit
right so we can see here as he's coming through he's not maintaining a great action in the hands
like this this turnover that he does with his arms is not great you can see with that left arm see
what he's doing like he's like internally rotating with his arm and then he gets extension from there
and i mean he does that a little bit when he's at a top speed but it's definitely not as noticeable
as when he's getting kind of towards the end and starts getting tired right he starts almost half
like this and he does it on the right side not as much right but he really starts to rely on
like this internal rotation of the arm which is is not an effective way to be able to uh maintain
good position with the the foot landing underneath the hip right so if he ends up getting into that
right if he ends up kind of feeling that stress from fahnbulleh and allows himself to create a
ton of internal rotation really early on okay i think that's going to end up negatively impacting
him right because you could say you see here see how he's going through more straight extension
in the arm okay that's better okay but when you start to get tired if you start to lose some of
your technique and some of your form that's not going to help you on you can see how you know i
mean i mean look at both of their extensions here they both look very very similar the issue or the
difference is bamboo is significantly taller right has significantly longer legs so he is a
lot more upright he's a lot more controlled where magic bowling is really leaning forward here right
this isn't a great finish it's not a a really stable position to be in fahnbulleh could easily
hold this for a long time magic bowling could not maintain this position for a long time now granted
this is the end right but again that ends up being to me something that shows that there are some
areas that matthew boling can continue to work on to improve and i think joseph fahnbulleh
you know just with a little bit more experience and things like that i think he's going to be more
set up to be able to win the race so again that's my opinion i still think that you know it's going
to be based off of what happens in the start okay so if fahnbulleh goes and and loses a lot in the
start then it's not going to end up being a a good race for him right but if he can maintain a pretty
close position with matthew boling you know around the curve whatever um and i'm sure he walked away
from the same thing i probably could have went harder on the curve to be able to keep everything
closer so then he can come through with a with a greater finish because i know he feels like he has
more left in the tank i don't know what if matthew boling feels like he has more left in the tank or
what his overall you know looking back on on how he can prove i don't know exactly what what those
kind of conversations were but that's what what makes me say that is that i think that he
you know when when you look back on fahnbulleh there's a lot of things that he can improve on
right and i think for matthew boling because he won he probably won't look back and see as
many things from a technical perspective that he needs to be able to work on but to me that last
20 meters again he looked very very uh not good right not good with his mechanics and what he's
doing with the arms and so if he doesn't really correct that and doesn't really work on those
last 20 30 meters i think bombay catches them and is able to win the uh the ncaas so that's
my prediction for the 200 meters you know there's obviously going to be difference for differences
for all the different races but that's what i'm thinking so and i know that's kind of the most
highly anticipated race at least in my opinion for the men's uh division all right so as always
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