Mondo Duplantis VS Karsten Warholm 100m Sprinting Mechanics Breakdown #sprintmechanics

Introduction this was an awesome track and field event we have Carson warholm and mondo Duplantis coming together and racing each other in the 100 meter even though they compete in two very different events Carson warholm is the world record holder in the 400 meter hurdles and mondo Duplantis is the best P vter of all time he has multiple times broken the world record and they started off How it started with some friendly back and forth trash talk and it turned into this really highly anticipated 100 meter event one thing led to another I just kind of started talking to him he was saying I look fast and I was like Let's Race he was cooky saying he could beat me in 100 meters and I say okay let's go first suggested it to him he was kind of like oh okay you really think you can beat me all right whatever and then a lot of people followed up we are not guys to to dodge the competition huh even though they were good friends when it came down to them being able to compete against each other there was obviously a little bit of bad blood there and then afterwards they you know came together and it was all cool and I think that it would be great for the viewer to see more of that type of stuff to make it so there's just more anticipation behind the event even though they were friends beforehand still friends afterwards when the event was going on there was that trash shock that competitiveness that we'd love to see in some of the top athletes I'm going to do a breakdown here in terms of what we're seeing with their sprinting mechanics and it's great to see some of the differences that they have in and a lot of the mistakes that we see within some novice sprinters really get shown up here and it ends up really impacting Carson warholm in in particular because he end up ends up losing the race and so a big mistake A big mistake that I'll see with athletes is really allowing that hand to get too far back behind with that initial action see how Start phase breakdown mono Duplantis he does a good job being able to control that he has a little bit better reaction time I also think he does a better job of as his foot's coming off the block he's also lifting the hand kind of simultaneously where warhol's a little bit late with that he lifts the hand gets his chest up a little bit more and then he comes through with the knee and gets the foot off the block where Duplantis does a great job of just coming straight through with the foot while the reaction time was definitely more for Duplantis we still see him get out a lot better mostly because of how his steps are much more outwards again we can see with Carson Drive phase breakdown Warhol and this is one of his strengths when it comes to running the 400 meter hurdle he's very long gets a lot of height within that foot as he's coming off the ground and gets a lot of length within the arms going behind him it ends up being a bit of a negative when it comes to running the 100 he's not able to accelerate as well he ends up popping up a lot earlier and so this is where Duplantis was really able to separate himself is through these first few steps he was able to get out very well stay in that Dy face stayed very patient and with his arms while he's not typically a sprinter he was very controlled with what he was doing with the arms as he's accelerating he end up running 1037 which is super impressive for really anybody to be able to run right just getting into the low 10s is a difficult thing to accomplish but being able to do it as a pull vter was really a big surprise there's a lot of people talking about how there's no way that he's going to be able to win and here we are watching him have a better start too you know like a more technically efficient start as a pole vter than the current 400 meter hurdle world record holder Top speed when we get to their top speed and you can see again very good job staying through that acceleration phase and once he gets to the top speed we could see that Carson warholm was able to catch up a little bit there you know was able to close the gap get a little bit closer but at the end of the day we still see Mond Duplantis end up being able to separate he gets great length with that stride I mean they both have really good length within the stride so what ended up really being the difference was who was able to accelerate better right cuz once we got into this level we can see further out from here like they pretty much stayed the same distance moned D plst accelerated a little bit better got out in front and then Carson warholm started to close the gap a little bit then mad plantis kind of opened it up a little bit more and then it kind of just stayed that same way here for the last you know maybe 25 30 m through here we can see they're both pretty similar they both have great length they probably are picking up the same distance they probably have the same fo contact time if we really broke it all down and so it ended up being the difference was just that acceleration and again I see a lot of that same type of issue happened with novice sprinters where they just don't accelerate properly and that ends up impacting their ability to get to their top end speed we can see with Duplantis Creates a lot of length just last Point here is as he's striking the ground very good job of being able to create a lot of length in the leg prior to foot strike I know there's a lot of people that talk about you know you should have like a z within the leg right and then go straight down uh we can see the opposite here where he's Landing really reaching out with that leg extending and then pulling to make it so then he can try to land as close underneath as possible he does a great job landing on the front part of the foot on the left side he has a little bit more turnout there allows him to be able to get that leg straight up and through and extend a little bit quicker he lands with his foot a little further out in front on the left side but still is able to maintain a fast foot contact because of how he is slightly turned out so then he's able to transition really quickly inwards and then push right back off or the right side he does a better job Landing a little more Underneath Him the foot's slightly out in front but he still is able to control stabilize and push off very effectively so a little Conclusion bit of a difference between one and the other so it really falls into that same category that we see with a lot of these top sprinters where there's a bit of a difference from one side to the other right side a little bit more straight left side a little bit more turned out but it still is able to effectively translate to being able to run fast again turn 37 is still a very impressive time to run I hope you like the video we do other breakdowns just like this if you want to check those out you can go ahead and see some of these recommendations here like the video subscribe and we'll talk to you soon