hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California we're gonna
do another breakdown here today on Carlin Isles the rugby player from the US a widely renowned
as the fastest rugby player ever and there's obviously no no proof for that oh there's any
like combine or anything like that they to be able to participate in rugby and even within
that I would imagine that it'd be different from different country to country but definitely very
fast guy definitely a well-renowned guy within the the rugby community I just typed in on YouTube
fastest rugby player and this is who came up so I thought hey you know want to get into different
different sports the different applications of speed and I think this is a good guy to be
able see especially because of his acceleration and that's what we're gonna get into first year
as we could see Harlan here he's getting the ball he's like kind of on the edge of the of the field
and when he initiates that takeoff notice how you know right here he's much more upwards in
his overall range of motion and then as he begins to want to take off you really lowers that that
center of gravity a lot and this allows and any changes that spine angle is a lot too so you can
see how you know now he's much more bent forward and then from there is gonna be able to get a lot
more pushback right so see see that angle there within his fine and and this allows him to not
get as much range of motion within his hips so he can't drive his knees much but we get a lot
more force from our glutes so he's really trying to get much more activation from that from that
posterior chain being able to really push off and you can see with that push off how and we
talk about this a lot with sprinters how he pushes off and really drives that that heel right to his
butt so he's really getting a good vertical push even though he his body is much more aligned to
be moving more horizontal this makes it so he can get that really fast acceleration quickly notice
how the the guys he's running against here they're pushing and they're going much more vertical with
the press compared to Carlin here is he's doing a much better job getting that heal right up to his
butt okay and then as he you know starts to get his feet going and he starts to be able to open
up now we can see where he gets more into that that knee drive gets into that extension within
me a lot of the key things that we end up seeing but notice how different his spine angle is here
now compared to where it was when he first kind of started going here at the beginning so see
notice that spine angle at that point and then as he gets around and now he's hitting his top
speed now he's much more upright and and able to to really open up and now he's letting that Lake
those legs get even more back behind him and also getting more nimi drive and hip flexion as well
so yeah definitely an interesting thing to see there you got another one here so now he gets
around the corner you see kind of how he starts I mean this time that's the difference between you
know some of the track videos that we do and then this one will be you know he has to actually avoid
getting thing into the ground bye-bye there guys so you know he has to be able to stiff on him and
change his center of gravity and things like that but now he's back in the open field notice here
again he's very good at getting that that knee drive and getting that that leg out in front of
them right and that foot out in front of them and then pulling back and landing with his his whole
foot head all in one fairly straight line he's sending out driving everything nice and aligned
there as as he lands and this ends up being really a key thing no matter what the sport is right just
shows that there are certain biomechanics that are very very important look at that net knee
straight I'm getting that foot out in front and and really being able to get that foot off the
ground when you get that foot out in front so a lot of times once you once that foot gets that
far out there becomes a difficulty of being able to drive that leg back underneath but we can see
that that carlin does an excellent job of being able to maintain that that foot outside being
able to get that nice solid turn over bring able to then drive that foot up and through and keep
the foot off the ground play well as he's driving through and driving back okay so very important
thing is gonna be being able to really for all athletes rugby players you know sprinters football
players you got to be able to get that foot out in front have some height in that foot right so see
how much that foots off the ground because then you can go ahead and pull that foot back behind
you and then as long as you're getting that that vertical force again notice how he's pushing off
he's driving that heel right up to it but as long as you get in that vertical force you're gonna be
able to create a lot more effective turnover as a sprinter and as a runner and that ends up being
really the the most important part of speed is the ability to get get very very fast turnover the
better your turnover is the the more you can the more and faster cycles that you have with each one
of your steps the faster overall you're gonna be of course it's great to have a long stride length
too but I just if you develop stride length you're not going to necessarily be very fast it's good it
relies a lot on your overall ability to turnover so as always guys thanks for watching these videos
we wanted to change it up a little bit on you and make it so we have a more of a speed mechanic
video that is oriented towards rugby players if any of you guys are rugby players that are
watching so any interest in any of our online stuff you can go and check it out we have a free
ebook that we have several 12-week online speed program awesome stuff always trying to create more
value for you as always thanks for watching these videos guys and we will see you soon