hey everyone, so after watching some video of myself and videos of elite sprinters, its come to my attention that one of the major technical differences I see between my form and theirs is that in the first couple steps, their knee almost hits their chest. right after exiting their blocks, their knee gets to the height of being parallel to the ground on every stride
when I sprint, however, when I exit my starting stance or blocks, my initial stride’s knee height is great, but then for the next few strides, I end up with these choppy looking steps where my knee doesn’t get much past perpendicular to my body (still far away from parallel to the ground as I’m in an acceleration position, leaning forward) and then stuff gets back to normal looking (knee gets to parallel with the ground from there-on-out)
I am hitting triple extension, and while I do tend to get upright pretty quickly, being any lower feels quite uncomfortbale
at first I thought it could be a mobility issue, but my ROM once I’m past the first 5 steps or so is currently excellent, so I don’t think it’s that. plus I’m fairly flexible
because knee height is a result of the force being applied to the ground, people might think its a strength issue, but I think that’s doubtful as I can squat well over 2x my bw to parallel and have a very high vertical jump
I’m thinking it’s probably a cueing issue, and right now, outside the wrist flick at the start, I don’t really use any other cues. I constantly hear concentrating on knee lift is bad, and that trying to be powerful is a bad idea
does anyone have any ideas? I think that the passive knee lift in my start is inhibiting my ability to get a lot of negative foot speed in my first few strides and while I look pretty quick, I’m sure my stride length and speed is being hampered