hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be doing a breakdown on
mecole hardman this has been a requested video for a while now so i thought i would go ahead
and knock it out that's going to be of its 40 i thought we could also go into
some of the important parts of being able to get through your acceleration or drive phase
when it comes to the 40 or really just trying to get into your top speed so as always if you
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okay so this is from the draft couple years ago obviously mecole hardman is doing really well
for the chiefs here if you follow football um you know big thing he ran four three six here he ran
four three four on this run first running kind of stumbled out a little bit so i wanted to do this
one uh what stands out to me in terms of his in this this video for whatever reason is a little
bit kind of laggy in some of the the movements here but um you can see that with his first
initial step i think he had a great first step where he gets that foot out and then he drives
back it almost looks like by the time his foot lands his hips are already you know pretty far
out in front of them he did get a good amount of height too if we even watch to see his you know
that like initial step and where he he drops those hips and then raises back up and through
and then you can still see even though he kind of dropped those hips and raised him back up he still
maintained a very kind of downward position within the spine right he didn't go in and get that spine
too far up he kept it all down but it still has the range to be able to drive those knees up and
out i see this commonly where you know people i think get the idea where they're trying to
get their feet or legs to come so far up right as they're going instead of putting a focus on
on getting him out in front and you can see that um clarvin here does a good job of being able to
really get those feet out he's putting much more of a emphasis on working horizontal here right so
you can see how he's really you know getting all of his momentum going this way which makes it so
he's able to pick up a good amount of distance on each one of the steps and he's slowly coming into
you know a little bit of a higher spine angle here doing a great job of driving through with
those elbows i do think it's important to be able to get those elbows back behind the spine
and then back up in front of the spine when it comes to the start if you're you know really
short through those arms it really makes a big difference in your power production so make sure
that as you're going when you're watching your film that you're doing a great job
and being very consistent with how much range you're getting through your your arms and your
elbows and generating a lot of force through there because i see a lot of people make that mistake
as well as is not being able to pump the arms and i think what's important here so now he's getting
you know he's obviously past the start phase he's probably been past the start page here
for a couple of steps it's been you know he has really the first three steps so one two
you know three let's say those would be the more like the start now he's into his drive again and
when he watches drive what stands out to me is that he stays in a very very uh stagnant position
within the spine which just means he's very patient in being able to get to his top speed
right he's not trying to rush it here he's continuing to you know get plenty of push
off and let's see where his foot contacts are at right now um okay let's say six five seven
so he's at about 0.11 contact right now um which is pretty good for being in that drive
fade still it's about where you want to be a little bit up over 0.1 but you can see
he's still you know maintaining that that drive back he's getting blending those feet stay back
behind him a good amount you know he's still able to get some turnover there in the front
front side right but his front side mechanics aren't all the way opened up now he's really
starting to open up once he gets the 20s you can see the big difference there
and i think that's important to be able to really keep a very very uh a lot of
patience through that drive phase let's go and see this last step where he's at
so it saves at nine two
and off it
probably happen to be honest so he's at about a .09 um contact time right so he definitely
lowered down that contact time as he went from that beginning kind of contact and that's what
ends up happening right your foot stays on the ground a little bit longer through that
acceleration drive phase as you're building speed because you're letting that foot stay
back to get back behind you a little bit more but once you get to your top speed you want to
have that that contact time under 0.1 which just means that you're doing the opposite
you're not letting that foot go back too far back behind you before you're getting it off
and immediately kind of driving those knees so notice how as he pushes off he drives the knee
and and comes forward he doesn't get into you know too much triple extension there or when
he's still in that drive phase he is getting a little bit more triple extension and a little bit
more of those backside mechanics are staying staying much more true right so you can see
he's pushing off and getting more a little bit more extension through there
and allowing those feet to get a little bit further back behind them
right and this really helps in being able to get more of that horizontal force going forward
and you know obviously it's so important to be able to get to your your top speed
as quickly as you can but at the same time you've got to be able to maximize through that drive
phase in order to make it so you can efficiently get to your top speed if you rush through it
then you're going to not you know maybe your your top speed capabilities are 21 miles an hour
if you rush through it you'll get stuck at 20 maybe 19 miles an hour but if you're patient
you know take an extra five six steps and make sure you get to that top speed then you'll be
able to get to 21 you you can just use that momentum to get you through the rest of the 40
60 100 whatever the case may be um and so you want to make sure that you're not rushing that uh
and yeah it is it is important like there are guys that will obviously like uh christian coleman will
be able to accelerate through his you know start phase and into his drive phase really quickly and
will win races because he's able to get through those uh as as fast as he is but at the same time
you know he when he gets into his top speed has some some issues with being able to uh kind of
sustain that at the end lost some races because he got caught there at the end so i think even
he's probably working on being able to work more of his drive face and stay in that drive phase for
longer to be able to really accelerate through and finish with a lot more speed at the end so that's
always my recommendation if you're not getting the top speed at the end uh that you want to that just
typically means that you're not out optimizing the the drive phase i see this you know i always
tell quarterbacks that you know if you can get the load down and you can get the finish down um
you know then that tells it tells you a lot about how you're doing um but a lot of times you have to
do most of the work within that that transition phase and or the the time in between that load
and and the finish um and so it's a similar thing with the spring where it's like you can get that
start down uh you can get the top end speed down those are are a little bit easier but to really
master that drive phase is critical and and a lot of times it gives you it paints you a good picture
of where you're going to be right especially in the start if you're not able to optimize the start
then we know that drive phase is going to suffer you can still end up getting to your top speed and
being good there but it's hard to have a great 40 time like that you know you'll see those are going
to be more of the type of athletes that are great people that uh that play games really well right
they they have a lot of uh speed when it comes to you know on the field in soccer football baseball
whatever the case may be but when it comes to actually running the 40 they don't perform
as well um as somebody that has everything all uh organized and really efficient in the actual
running pattern so i always recommend that make sure that you're we're working on that that drive
phase continue to get better through there i think it's super critical as always if you
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