hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be
breaking down noah lyle's 60 meter start i'm going to start the video right now
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all right so it's been really a big topic of conversation here within the track and field
community where noah lyles is really starting to put a focus on you know being able to improve his
60 meter which is very interesting because i think it can really you know carry over to more of that
100 meter runner he's obviously been doing you know some big things as a 200 meter runner for
a long time it really has a 100 meter you know a sprinter as well but not as much from a 60 meter
perspective and him really concentrating on it he recently here ran 656 which is a great great time
it really puts in perspective you know where he's going to be able to you know potentially have a
bigger you know impact on in that hundred meter right and so we have uh this was from six years
ago so we want to see some of the development that noah lyles had over the years uh first you could
see he's he switched his feet right now he has his before he had his right foot now he has his left
foot forward i definitely more you know i have my left foot forward i like that a little bit more
the initial you know push i think he does a much better job of being able to get that foot down
quickly right when we see the positioning of the body here you know he's not getting that
elbow to come out his front in front as much right so we see here how far out in front his
elbow is as he's starting and also you know when we we've been talking about the angle he still has
that that really good angle but he's landing and it seems like he's really trying to take
a big step out in front where now he's doing a better job of landing a little bit more right
underneath that hip and that will help him being able to transition off the ground better let's see
time wise here you know he's about 5.3 and these times are always you know it's hard to
be able to see a hundred percent just because of um you know all the things that could potentially
slow this down um but yeah so he's at about point one seven ish i would say in terms of
that first foot hitting the ground let's compare that he's at point two four eight let's do eight
and then 0.414
yeah so he's at about a similar a little bit maybe higher right so you know before he's a
little bit under the 0.17 i'm kind of rounding up and this one is still at 0.17 i'm kind of rounding
down for that 0.17 so it's a little bit of you know a difference there um but they're both really
really close so we're within you know a couple thousandths of a second there in terms of you
know how much time he's spending on the ground within that first step landing with that second
step again underneath him very very effectively there you know i think the second step here looks
a lot better in my opinion than here as much as he's doing a really really good job of being on
his heel or sorry on his you know ball of his foot keeping that heel high there and really doing a
great job too of having that good heel recovery even from a young age you know and that really
allows you to be able to maximize those shift angles right when you land and you have that
ability to bend within that ankle now you could really push off and be able to maximize you know
how much distance you're picking up per step and by focusing on the start and i think he really
you know got better with the start but then also was able to really maximize his drive face stay
a little bit more patient through his drive face here because you know as he's going through the
start there's some things that are a little bit different obviously with the you know position
of you know his feet changing that up but also you know as he's going through here he's really
began reaching way earlier here where now it seems like he's not putting as much of a focus
on reaching but instead of being able to land with those feet a little bit more underneath the
hips and really being able to put a focus on you know turnover speed getting those legs going
faster i think that's a really important thing to be able to understand is that you know we want to
be able to put a priority on really maximizing your turnover speed as you're getting started
instead of thinking too much about how much distance you're picking up per step right
the distance will kind of take care of itself and a lot of what ends up being the distance
but it is that your distance per step doesn't come from the reach right we've talked about this
before it doesn't come from how you get your foot out in front here your distance percept comes from
how you're hitting the ground how you're striking the ground right so see how he's reaching out in
front so early here we're here he's doing a better job of being able to keep that
that chin at a little bit more of a bent position and then he's pulling back underneath himself
right so now he's landing a little bit more bend in the shin or in the knee right where here he's
landing with a little bit more straightness in the knee okay but he's focusing on reaching out here
where really the focus wants to be being able to contact the ground in a way that's going to be
able to assist you in moving forward right and so when you can put a focus on you know more of the
how than the what i think that that helps you out and being able to you know achieve what it is that
you're trying to achieve right so the how is being able to strike the ground in that horizontal way
to be able to really land on the balls of your feet and and really have that more of a shin
angle that's going to maintain horizontal action instead of getting too caught up in the vertical
action which is what comes from really trying to reach those feet out in front you know too early
yeah when you get to your top speed you've got to be able to get those feet out in front and then
pull back underneath right but when you're first starting it's really about being able to maximize
that where your foot's landing and being able to build up that turnover speed and as you're you're
building over that up that turnover speed being able to you know assess the spine position that
best helps you in being able to maximize force and being able to maximize the amount of distance
you're picking up per step and being able to maximize the amount of time that you're spending
on the ground per step right so as and that's why a lot of people you know you got to focus a lot
on your drive face right because when you work on your start the reason you're working on your start
is to be able to help you get to a more effective drive phase and then get you into a great top-end
speed phase right and so you don't do yourself any favors by you know when you're going through the
start not thinking about how can i optimize this start to make it so i can effectively get into
my drive phase at end of my top end speed phase if you're just thinking about doing the start of
maximizing the start then you know you might end up losing some of your top end speed which is not
going to be a benefit for you or you might lose some of your ability to get into you know your
drive phase or the effectiveness in the drive phase the start optimizing the start has to be
with the mentality of how can i utilize this start to be able to better set me up into the drive and
in the top end speed it doesn't want to be just a focus on being able to improve the start because
if you just run a great 10 meter right we see this all the time people run great 10 meters or
great first 30 meters and they get caught at the end right and that's because they didn't optimize
their actual top end speed positioning relative to their start and so as they go through that start
to drive to top end speed they really don't get the correct carryover that will really assist them
at being the best that they could possibly be and that's what you want to be able to understand
when you're going through those drive phases and it's hard to be able to say what everybody needs
to do right it has to be you know something where you get a good understanding of what the
top end speed is right that's why i like that treadmill because now i can see how fast i run
right and i get a good understanding of what that feels like to be
running at my top speed and then i work my start to be able to assist me into that top end speed
right but now that i have a good understanding of my top end i can work back okay i don't think
it's a good idea to work the start and then use the start you know the information from
the start to go then into top end speed okay i think you want to work backwards you want to go
top in speed and figure out what's great about that and then work that back into how you can
optimize your start to be able to get to your top speed every time okay because what made usain bolt
run 958 wasn't that he had you know a start that was totally different it was that he
was able to get into his top speeds that he was able to run you know 27.8 miles per hour
okay so how did he get to that 27.8 miles per hour he had to start necessary
to be able to build up into that top speed but the big thing is he achieved that top speed his
start wasn't you know wasn't anything that blew anybody away right it was no record start okay but
it was a start that was best for him to make it so then he can get into that 27.8 miles per hour
which made it so he ran the fastest time ever okay so i hope that makes sense if you like the
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you know quickly but you know really that's more of a service guys like i i'm trying to do these
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