Critique my form please

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@fogelson

I’ll start off with some positive. Your arms are not straight/swimming anymore. They looked fine on the later portions of the runs. Overall, arms make only a small contribution, but with some of the mild changes, it doesn’t look too bad.

Pelvic position and posture are just… I don’t know what to say. It is messed up–running way way too tight. Your back appears arched (this is related to pelvic issues). You’re rocking back at the start because of a poor set-up there (can’t tell exactly what, maybe someone else can). You have much too high of heel recovery on your initial acceleration, folding your leg back to your butt, which is why you’re spinning your wheels a bit. That isn’t very normal with people who are strong, so I imagine you are cuing something to yourself that isn’t natural.

Might want to check your timing or measurement. I don’t have your video to run over with VirtualDub, but that isn’t 4.2.

Thanks sir

It was my first block start in a while, so I think I’m going to make some progress.

The back arching was probably there for sure, but I didn’t sprint through the finish lines really (which were random objects I had brought with me lol), so I just leaned back when I thought I crossed the line. But yes I will definitely keep this in mind…and yes my back was tight this morning. Do you have any tips for reducing back arching like this in general though? Weak abs, maybe?

And I took an average of a few 100m walks to determine how many strides it takes, and then calculated that into strides per 10m. Then I placed an object at the finish line, and had my friend stand there to clearly show it. I don’t think it’s hard to believe my 30m is ranging from 4.2 to 4.3s though…that’s a slow time. Maybe I’m doing this wrong, but I stopped counting frames when any part of my body crossed the line, whether it be my hand or my knee or my foot, or whatever. Is that wrong to do? Also that’s without reaction time.