Yes - positionally there are slight differences.
Just to add to that Thor … that in team games as Xlr8 mentioned on one of the threads (or maybe this one), the movement before the sprint can be more important than simply the sprint.
Reading the game,
Anticipation,
Contact before sprint etc.
I.e. -
You don’t have to be the fastest to be the best - But it does help alot
One of my favourite qoutes:
“I might not be the fastest from A to B, but I never start at A”
Being ‘fit’ may be enough at the lower levels of competition, but as you move up, everyone is ‘fit’ so the difference becomes speed, skills, athleticism, quickness, strength, etc…depending on the demands of your position and the style of game you play.
I found this out when I was fencing on the national level. In fencing, quickness will get you quite far (much like ‘fittness’ in soccer.) When I first started fencing, I had no clue what I was doing but I was naturally quick and had good reactions, so I beat many ‘better’ fencers simply by being quicker and a better athlete. Then, I discovered as I stepped up in my competitive levels that almost all of the guys at the top were quick so I had to actually learn how to fence and how to effectively use my superior athleticism as applied to a competitive fencing bout.
So I’m not saying that you don’t need a baseline of fitness or quickness or whatever the sport requires, but understand that it only a baseline and you need to build on that to move to the elite levels.
Love those quotes!
Yeh - they’re the kind you wish you had said yourself !!!