hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of california can
do another breakdown here today on Jesse Owens got the recommendation for Jesse Owens I think
it's a great recommendation so thought I would go ahead and do the breakdown I did the finals
of the 36 Olympics just because you know you could do the quarters and/or the semis and it
just I just didn't feel like I think the semis were actually better film wise but I just felt
like some finals I mean you got to do the Olympic finals right nothing better than that nobody's
gonna be performed better than when they're at they're in the finals so we'll start with
the with the finals here jesse is here on the on the far far right I can't get the full get
off here okay so we'll start with what we got like he's one step into it first of all - he's
running nine three and they'd have no you know the the ability to start the ability to get the
top and speed well then you're running in dirt I mean this the the technological advances that
have happened within the within track over the last you know eighty years has been huge and so
the fact he was able to run ten three back here just shows a testament to how fast he really was
anyways we'll get right through it you could tell that at the beat or hear that that there's not as
much of a concentration on really reaching out when they were first starting off it's much more
on just getting these quick footsteps with it shows again I mean when you look at Jesse Owens
he's got giant a giant lower body a lot of force within his hamstrings and that's where his primary
power is coming from when he's running so you can see that that how the start was back here
I mean this guy right here he has actually pretty good starting pink mechanics but overall it looks
like yet he just kind of powers himself through the the beginning parts of the the race and now
as he gets going he's able to get more into that stride so the beginning is very very short you
can compare that to to this guy here who he has a little bit more more stride length I would say
his posture is not great and his ability to control his arms aren't great so he's losing
power there but from the leg perspective I'd say he actually has a little bit better from the start
in comparison to Jessie but once Jessie gets going he is definitely had a better position you can see
he actually gets into top-end speed a lot faster than anybody else here just because he is able to
really use that the force of pushing off and then once he starts pushing off and getting those legs
out in front now we're going into the next level of speed and then look at how great of a stride
he has I mean especially on that right side we'll wait until we get a little bit more into it look
at on that right side where he's able to come in and how straight up he is I mean he has excellent
posture as he's running through he's pushing off he's getting that extension out and then look at
that cycle back underneath is so good right there and then doesn't get that leg back too far back
behind him pushes off right at the right time to make it so he could drive that heel right back up
to his butt gets it up there and then is able to drive forward with that that heel still connected
and then gets that extension around that fast extension around with his with his uh oh sorry
fast fast flexion around and they gets that extension back in the knee and that pulls back
underneath in to make it so he lands with that foot right underneath his knee I mean that is as
good as it gets from a running cycle perspective again let's walk through it all again where he's
what he's trying to do so you're landing your foot is right under your tibia which is excellent as
he's going and allowing that wait to come or the foot to come back behind him he pushes off in a
good area but right when you're about 45 degrees you don't want to let that foot getting too far
back back behind you where else it affects your ability to transfer back through excellent push
off time to make it so he gets that foot right back up into from his heel up to his butt then
great job of being able from this position to keep that heel to his butt get and get that heel up
to the but before it crosses the front knee both big biomechanical points that you have to be able
to connect to now drives his knee up okay as you driving his knee up he does a good job at least at
the beginning of keeping that heel pretty close up to the butt now as that knee comes up that
foot starts to separate he gets all the way into knee extension right here okay now if once you're
getting a knee extension make sure you can pull that foot back underneath you to land with your
foot right underneath the knee and this is where you know having a foot a really fast foot contact
time which you can see he has is crucial and now you can now it's all about being able to create
that vertical force again he's doing an excellent job on his left and right side you can see when
he's pushing off on it on either leg how he pushes off and kind of contracts in those shoulders watch
how he's doing that contraction his shoulder so he's really using his core you know really
using it really strong in his core to drive those knees back forward see how he does that there he's
going and drives that knee back forward now he's back into extension now he's driving back for he
actually does a better job on his right side of not really losing that posture but either way he
does still have a little like second there where he's going into flexion right there with his his
spine as he's going back in to extending his body up but the left one he definitely doesn't see how
he's driving with that left knee forward he kind of contracts in that core allows that posture to
kind of break a little bit and then gets right back into extension and he's really using that
extension also to push that right leg back and really get a lot of force out of that right leg
excellent very interesting to see that - that how he's kind of using that that force to really
generate that extra power when he's driving with his left leg forward and right leg back right boom
alrighty see how he's doing that there very very interesting that's a that's what the core does the
core flexes in the spine so that's definitely a core activation technique now when he goes on the
right side he doesn't do it as much he still uses that core a little bit but not the same
way he keeps more more good posture there that left leg push off he allows that foot to get a
little bit more behind him he doesn't have as much force there but right side great job of being able
to generate force within that left hip flexor left cool or left just left side to the core
in general then really be able to push off and extending that back to make it so he's really
reaching that optimum speed on the best that he can notice how when he's running he's not shifting
too much in the shoulders again those knees those elbows all the way up to the shoulder they're not
having to use too much teaspon mobility you have to have great compression mechanics within yours
your spine or decompression mechanics but maybe the better way to put it I sent you I'm trying
to say is that your spine cannot be too segmented together okay you need to have a lot of extension
in your spine in order to maintain this type of shoulder mechanics when you're running and not
being able to rotate a lot in your thoracic spine okay you want to be able to have some ability to
move there right because he's able to get at least a little bit of rotation when he's running but
you want to overall be able to sustain a lot of shoulder mobility while having a good amount of
core strength so right here he's stretching a lot in his core and then as he's driving through here
boom now he's activating his core as he's driving his right arm through which is where he's getting
a lot of his power from when he's running and what made him into the elite sprinter that he
was and I mean again we'll see what the the time was it was a 10 3 won the gold medal with a 10 3
unbelievable back then using on dirt not as good of shoes did not have any start block or anything
like that I mean overall just amazing that he was able to accomplish what he was able to accomplish
I don't know what it would translate to now but definitely something better than than a
10 3 that's nuts and there's no doubt about that so as always guys thanks for watching
these videos if you have any questions you can reach out to me morey@yourperformancelab.com
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guys as always thanks for watching these videos the online on speed program will essentially
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