hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have a brand new breakdown for today it's
going to be on eric stokes the defensive back from georgia he ran a four to five
forty i always want to be able to break down those really elite level 40 yard dashes just
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all right so i'm going to really go deep into eric stokes start just because we got a great angle to
be able to see it i would wish we could also see the back angle as well typically when you send in
your breakdown i get inside i want to see back uh side and front view so you'll be able to see both
really helps out but just being able to see the side view i think there's a couple things that
really stand out to me one notice the different distance between his feet right i think that's
really important also notice how his front foot is set up this isn't the only way to do it guys
but it is something for you know guys to be able to look at and be able to understand also check
his spine you know positioning right he's he's not really rounded in his back but he's also not
really flatten his back okay so this allows him to have plenty of range of motion through the
hips plenty of range of motion through the spine as he initiates that that initial takeoff and so
we see is that it's very quick right there's there's not a lot of wasted motion here and
what he's doing he drops down a little bit right and then he immediately gets his weight to go out
okay slide down and then out there's no you know again wasted motion it's a very quick movement
right and that sets him up to be able to really accelerate very very smoothly and you can see
how he lands with really his foot when he first touches the ground it's almost like those hips are
out in front of the foot right i mean it really is uh you know i always say to have the foot
or yeah the foot right underneath the hips but for him his hips are almost out in front of the
the foot which is very difficult to do and just shows how much pure acceleration he's getting
and horizontal movement he's getting there's a lot of guys that i see with their hips way
behind their foot when they land with that first step uh and so you can see it looks like actually
when he first touches it's like right actually i would say his hips are slightly on front um
in comparison to the foot so you know that's a huge elite level start that's a very difficult
thing to be able to do but it's something again for you guys to work towards if you can just
get to the point where your foot is going right underneath the hip that'll get you to you know
drop by a tenth or maybe two tenths of a second it's all about being able to make these small
adjustments when it comes to the 40 that really makes a big transition when it comes to you know
making a big change in your 40-yard dash time so if you're running uh four eight four nine in order
to get down to a four five some of these small technical details really make a big difference
so now he's getting going here as he gets closer and closer to stop so you notice where he's stay
he's staying in that drive phase very well right he has that chest still out in front of him
and he runs similar to john ross where he has that spine angle pretty far out in front of his body
right he has a little bit of rotation going into this right leg here landing on the outside part of
that right foot and we're really twisting out we see that with christian coleman too how he really
twists out with one leg and then has the other leg that is very straight and doesn't have that
that same type of action that's something that's very hard to teach we all have kind of different
biomechanics and you know what we're going to try to do in order to optimize our top end speed
so for him i wouldn't really want to change something like this unless he was getting a bunch
of recurring injuries then we'd want to be able to you know adjust that if he's having like grind
problems or hamstring problems then we can make some adjustments there but as long as he's healthy
and you know everything is working fine from a biomechanic perspective and also performance
perspective we wouldn't want to make changes there we just want to be able to kind of build off of
some of the the strength and the applications that he has by being able to create that that rotation
so you know we would work on different parts of the lateral core to make sure the the hips and
the lateral movement within the hips is very well controlled we also want to make sure that there's
plenty of balance between the strength and the adductors the hip flexors the hamstrings the
glutes the lower back because once there ends up being a big difference of strength because what
happens is when you're sprinting like that certain muscles are going to be more active certain
muscles are not going to be as active and so you want to be able to train the body to make sure
that everything is well balanced so even though there's a you know in the actual performance of
the sprint there's some asymmetries going on the overall body is well built up to be able to handle
those asymmetries that's very normal when you're doing you know sprinting jumping any type of
movement where you're going to be on one leg and you know your right leg then onto your left leg
your body's going to always adapt differently right when you land on your right leg it's not
gonna be the same as how you land on the left leg we're just not perfectly set up to be able
to ever do that that's how we balance is to be able to you know stabilize and understand how the
brain connects to our feet and to our legs and and our hips and an appropriate reception behind that
i don't want to go too much on a changer here but essentially what the point is is that everybody's
going to have a different sprinting form and a different way to be able to adapt their bodies
to be able to optimize their top end speed their drive phase their start phase and so that's why
having a coach i think is really beneficial especially somebody that understands the
biomechanics of the body to be able to really optimize your performance because if you don't
understand why somebody is moving the way that they do and what are the tendons and the muscles
and the joints that are acting on it then you're not going to be able to train it and build it and
get it to perform better and so when you understand the biomechanics and really break
it down like this you can see what are going to be some of the small nuances to really make a big
difference in their top end speed performance so for someone like eric stokes based off of
this breakdown what i would want to see is that he has great balance and the flexibility in his
hamstrings and his groins and his hip flexors or adductors and the hip flexors in the lower back
because once it ends up being an asymmetry in either range of motion or strength that becomes
very worrisome with his type of running form so i just want to make sure that everything was very
lined up as but as best as we can there's going to be again some asymmetries no matter what but
we want to be able to line that up to be able to allow him to stay healthy because he's already
performing i mean 4-2-5 how much better can you really get to five um you know yeah we
want to go below four two but really what we need eric's supposed to be able to do is be able to be
consistently healthy year in and year out so being able to balance them and make sure all the muscles
are working in coordination is most important now going into his top speed what ends up being super
interesting to me is just how long he is in his arm swing going back right and how fast he is too
right i see and even me myself i don't i know i don't get as much extension in my arms as
he does right he's getting a lot of extension and i see people they get a lot of extension in
their arms and are able to pull back with a a lot of range back there but move a lot slower
through the arms right here you can see how fast his arms are moving how fast his legs are moving
and if you guys watching full speed i'm sorry i can't do it in full speed or i'll say i have
copyright issues but um the the point is with those arms is you want to be able to really
maximize the extension a lot of times we see guys that are a little bit too rounded in the spine
lacking posture and that creates an inability to create that rapid turnover but when you have a
lot of strength and that arm extension as well as great posture and the ability to really stabilize
through the ankles you're really setting yourself up to be able to run at a very very high level so
you know some some good information there for eric stokes didn't go too much into his actual running
form but really how to be able to build balance in order to really maximize performance which i
think is super important for you guys to be able to understand in order for you to improve your 40
to improve your 60 to improve your 100 your 200 whatever your running form is you got to be able
to understand how to incorporate your own body's balance in order to maximize performance and also
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