hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be talking about
why flat feet will make you faster and we'll start the video right now
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alright so i'm really excited about this video i think it's going to give a great opportunity
to get a lot of different perspectives a lot of different points of view and really hope give you
a opportunity to be able to learn a little bit more about the foot and why it's so important
i was actually working with this athlete here today and we started talking a little bit more
about flat feet and you know how it ends up being like a limitation or something that could end up
you know slowing you down and i really went more into why it could actually be a huge benefit and
you know one of the big things that i'll say first is usain bolt is flat-footed right the
greatest sprinter of all time is flat footed so flat feet is something that you can't have success
with and how is the best printer ever the you know somebody that's flat footed there's a lot of great
basketball players that are flat footed there's a lot of great sprinters that are flat-footed
and you know there's an estimation of about 20 to 25 percent of people in general are actually flat
footed just to give you a few different facts i'm gonna knock up a couple here and then we'll get
a little bit more into the details another thing is having flat feet actually absorbs shock better
than having more of an arch right or you know too much of an arch there's never no evidence to show
that flat feet actually cause any type of you know negative performance no evidence that that
supports that even though there seems to be a lot out there that talk about why you know or how flat
feet are something you need to correct blah blah blah but a lot of times the best jumpers and the
fastest athletes actually do have flat feet another thing is you actually are less injury
prone with a flat arch then you are somebody that has a high arch right so high arches are actually
worse when it comes to potentially injuries than having flat feet and also having flat feet is
actually and creates more flexibility within the foot you know it also helps with the whole
shock absorption so we'll get more into the details here and and really at the end of the
day right there could be flat feet that can make you worse uh you could have normal arches and that
could end up making you worse you could have high arches that could end up making you worse right
so it's not really what you are born with it's how you utilize that to help you in running faster the
thing about the you know flat feet or having a low arch that could be beneficial is the flexibility
and the ability to shock absorb more effectively now you know here the athlete on the right
has flat feet right watch how well he is able to shock absorb here on the right foot
right goes into pronation kind of drops the arch there and comes out that's an excellent job of
being able to control your landing phase and then be able to you know push off in effective manner
to be able to really you know maximize force production and the ability to stabilize and
control during foot contact time now we're going to the left side right same athlete
as he's going down lands with a much more supinated position to start
and most importantly goes through a massive amount of pronation uncontrolled pronation right so see
how fast he goes through that pronation as he's going and landing there right and so you know
we want to be able to understand how having a flat feet right so he's five feet on both feet
right it's not like one foot is you know worse than the other both feet are flat-footed he might
be a little bit worse on the left side but that's not the point the point is we have to be able to
learn how to control our landing in order to make it so then we have the ability to you know
maximize force production and limit the amount of time spent on the ground when it comes to speed
right this video is about how having flat feet can actually make you faster right because you can
absorb better you have more flexibility you have more ability to get into a pronated position right
it's more natural for you to get into a pronated position which is actually which is needed
when you are going through plantar flexion or extending off right the natural way your foot
should be moving as it's hitting the ground is it should be supinated transition into a pronated
position and then go into extension right and so what happens when you're flat-footed is your it's
a lot easier for you to get into a pronated spot okay and now you have to be able to build up the
muscles and then be able to control that pronation so you don't go into over pronation or you know
lack control within that that pronation right the pronation is like when your your heel drops right
or your arch drops it's like pronation right when you're when your heart is coming up that's
supination okay we'll give you a little bit of a diagram here to show that okay now we have athlete
on the left going landing doesn't have a flat foot issue right but you can see the difference here
in the positioning of the leg and in the positioning of the leg
right so this doesn't have anything to do with flat feet okay this has everything to do
with you know just overall running mechanics right understanding how to be able to utilize
you know your body to perform at a high level right so you have to be able to you know when when
you're here when you have you know more of an arch and i'm just using this as an example of like the
opposite side of the spectrum right so somebody that doesn't have you know a big problem with you
know arches but still doesn't have uh good landing mechanics can still get themselves in a position
where they're not able to properly push off and really you know is suffering from struggling
from oh from uh pronation right can't get to pronation so as he's going and pushing off he's
really pushing off more on the outside part of the foot and really staying too much in a supinated
position okay so you know he's suffering from not being able to get into pronation where person with
flat foot is easily getting to pronation actually getting to pronation on the left side too quickly
which is causing you know some some instability but athlete on the right is significantly faster
right and so i don't want you guys to think that you have to be able to correct your flat foot uh
you don't want to you don't necessarily have to correct your you know regular arch normal arch or
your high arch okay those aren't things that you have to go deep into correcting right you have to
be able to understand how to utilize that to be able to help you in being successful right you
can't be you know if you have flat feet you have to spend time on being able to strengthen your
arch and how to control and balance through you know your feet and absorb through your feet just
the same as somebody who has a normal sized arch right so it's not like because you have a normal
arch that all things are good and you're going to be able to run faster be more athletic or you know
same thing with having flat feet okay but there are potential opportunities within being with
being footed that will help you in getting faster right having more shock absorbent absorption
should help you out having more flexibility in the foot should help you out and really there's a lot
of elite athletes that have flat feet all right that's just what the statistics show
so hopefully this is able to open your eyes to some of the really facts behind having flat feet
and really give you the opportunity to hopefully have some more success when it comes to running
we do have exercises i'll put some of those down below that will help you in building up your feet
making sure you have good range of motion through there you know arches balance control through the
cast control through the ankles but you have to understand what's going on within your feet
within your ankles in order to really be able to maximize your start your drive phase your
top end speed because if you're not connected to your feet not connected to your ankle then it's
really hard to be able to control and stabilize during those critical landing phases when you're
starting especially you have to be able to have a lot of flexibility there and so that's where you
know having flat feet can potentially be very very beneficial but you have to understand how to use
it right you can't just think that oh now because i have flat feet i'm going to be fast right for
everybody and you probably are naturally fast honestly if you have flat feet you probably have a
lot of naturalness and speed but still you have to work on your craft right just because you have a
nice natural maybe jumper in basketball doesn't mean you're just you know immediately going to be
the best three-point shooter in the nba you got to be able to work on your craft all right so
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