hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of california and we have
a new breakdown for you today on oblique seville he is a sprinter out of jamaica he's one of the
big up-and-coming sprinters out of jamaica and he is one of the fastest top-five fastest under-20
youth athletes and so we're gonna go ahead and give them a break down here today you know and
big thing that i would say is you know the whole idea of don't make this mistake is really the
comparison here of oblique and i don't know the man's name here in lane seven but we could see
a big difference here in you know what happens during the actual race and in regards to start
so let's see one two three four five excellent you know start in a good position and and the
big point of this is as much as i think the the start is important really it's that transition
phase you know you can go through these first five steps and really that's you know that that
kind of initial or even the first three steps is really that initial start and in these first
now five steps here we can see that the guy in lane number seven really looks to be ahead of
everybody here and what happens is in once we get into step number five you could see oblique starts
to stand up a little bit more right now he's into step seven step eight now he's basically looking
up and really a lot of the guys are starting to you know get their posture and a little bit
more upright position but the guy that actually had a really really good start is still staying
down I were at step eight here nine ten eleven you can see now oblique is really driving he's
really it hard in that transition phase which is important because you want to be able to get out
of that dead star face yeah it's important for those firstly in three to five steps you got to
stay low when you got to drive but then you got to be able to start getting your spine up and
then driving your knee to make it so now you're able to work on how much overall stride length
you're getting when you first started so it's I mean it is about length but it is also a lot
about frequency guy get those legs going fast fast fast fast fast you know you want to get some light
but but really like a Justin Gatlin he doesn't take very much steps there are very long steps
at the very beginning he's just so quick so quick so quick when he's getting his legs going and then
he starts opening and we could see oblique does a good job of having a good turnover but then
once he gets those legs going now he can he can start changing up his posture so he's a little bit
more upright dad I lost the amount of steps here but let's say we're at 12 13 14 issue right now
look at how much more upright oblique is then the man here in Lane seven right and and what happens
is that he really starts to lose lean that's just because he's staying so far down he's not allowing
his hips to come up he's not allowing himself to you know start to increase the amount of
distance he's getting each one of his steps and and he's in a bad biomechanical position in his
spine okay so by having this length in the spine now you're getting yourself in a good pilot bond
we cannot put cool position to really maximize how much your stride how good your stride length
is as well as how good your stride frequency is so you're starting to be able to build and
build and build and that's what oblique swivel doesn't that's what why the transition phase is
so important because right here you can't tell who's gonna win the race we have no idea any
one of these guys could end up breaking away but what makes it so you when they're breaking ways
your ability to transition and then from that transition phase being able to get to that top
end speed phase and then be able to hop there to hold that top-end speed very very effectively so
you see guys that are very good at getting through you know getting through they're starting in their
transition right they end up being a little bit more ahead okay then we see guys that are
effective in their actual transition phase and so they're able to stay with the the top guys
and then you know once you get into the top end speed phase we see guys that are really good at
getting their christian Coloma it's a good example where he's great through his transition phase then
at the top end speed phase he kind of struggles in there a little bit and ends up getting caught
sometimes because he gets to that top end speed face so fast that it becomes difficult for him to
maintain that top end speed fade for a long period of time right so you want to be able to do a good
job of getting through that transition phase and getting to the top end speed and and having that
top end speed phase being a part where you're really at that top speed and you're doing that
for only like 30 or 40 meters once you have to do that for like 60 meters it becomes a little bit
more difficult alright anyway we'll get back into the to the actual run so it was a bleak now he's
in he's pretty much into his full stride now he's just going into maximizing his overall frequency
now once you get to your full stride now you just gotta start to getting that turnover getting that
turnover getting that turnover and as you get that turnover the momentum from the turnover very
action there's an actual reaction makes it so now you can start increasing the length again so once
you could begin okay now you're getting that nice turnover and you know the length begins to really
be effective and you're feeling comfortable with that length and then you're starting to gain that
speed now naturally what happens you could open up a little bit better now you could see oblique
Saville starts to really open up and get that nice extension there in his knees look at how
he's doing that look at that nice extension where you know now we get we go back to the guy in Lane
7 he's just starting to be able to open up and his legs because he stayed down for so long so
he's just getting to the point where oblique has been for you know maybe eight or nine strides now
because of his inability to really open up you can even see once he you know goes from his head
being down to now his head being up you know now now he could start opening up a whole new
level talking about this guy right here right see how now he could start opening up so this
whole time he's been keeping himself down and his Megan so now he can't open himself up and
now he's wondering why everybody's passing him right it's because you just stayed down for too
long with your head right look at this even this guy right here look at how far back behind he is
but because he reached his head up now he could start opening up and his spine and now he said he
easily starts catching these guys today go back to oblique Saville it ends up being really how well
can you get that that knee extended and then from that knee extension how well can you land back in
front of you can see you know and what makes it so he gets such a good knee extension look
at that turnover look at how he lands with that foot right underneath them and then as he pushes
off how close he keeps that heel to his butt I see a lot of guys you know look like like here
where you're letting your foot get too far back behind you actually that's not too bad of a job
there let's see let's see a good example of you right here okay watch this guy how he's getting
his foot get so far back right see how far back he's letting that foot get especially that left
one so now he can't get that that same amount of turnover and his leg right so now he's getting
you know people are passing him because he's not able to get that knee as high up and get as much
of a pull so he's not being is not gonna be able to create near as much overall speed that's like
oblique Seville who's really primarily with that knee out in front he's just driving that knee in
front so so quickly and a big part of what he's doing here and I'm not necessarily you know I'm
weary on exactly how he can advise this but if you see once he gets this extension here and he
begins to pull that leg underneath him he kind of get is like a forward flexion of his head to make
it so now it didn't the head and chin are kind of out in front a little bit which makes it so now
he can land a little bit more with his head and foot underneath him but it kind of leaves that
hip back leaves that's fine back but it allows them to still get a nice turnover so and that's
why I say I'm kind of worried about it because it does it looks really good from this perspective
wryly that's an excellent position to be in with that foot so far off the ground net where you can
create so much pull and now your foot contact times gonna be absolutely nothing when you're
able to you know create that much straightening in your leg and then drive your underneath that's
gonna make it so your foot contact time is gonna be so small that you'll be able to just feel like
you're floating through and that's what those guys you know you watch Usain Bolt looks like
he's floating and that's just because there's such a good job of maximizing that turnover
so when he's touching the ground he just doesn't have to create very much force at all and you know
most of the the overall force that happened is when he's driving here so now he doesn't have to
create a lot of ground force which of the ground force is what makes this you end up having the
injuries and the overuse problems but if you could have that really effective turnover and
just maximize that that's gonna make sure that you could really become a really strong strong
sprinter for a long period of time and not put too much stress on your body getting like a Justin
Gatlin there's a similar way right he's able to run for as long as he did and still does because
he just maximizes his turnover starters you have to create as much ground force he just has to you
know be able to be very fast twitching and have a lot of really great range of motions alright guys
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