Christian Coleman -starting blocks (original version)

Ok look at lane 6 (christian coleman) pay attention to how his feet are traveling backwards into the ground under his hips

Hm I'd say based on the side-view you can see how his knees are too low, especially for a start (which should be the most explosive part of a sprint). His shin angles are also too high. Basically in sprinting that tells you if the forces you're producing are going upwards or forwards. If you look at this 20 second vid, [video , Christian Coleman rolls his body over his foot/shin, which gives him great hip extension to go forward and also enough space to get his knees in front of him. Then as gets into his stride the shin angles gradually get steeper and steeper until he's running "up-right." In your son's case he's sort of stuck between a true sprint start and running "up-right" whic…

…st to mens best, which is ironic since the womens best dont have the hip width of the average women (again talking sprints here) and im also not saying thats hip width accounts for 100% of the difference between elites and non elites im just stating that it may be an important factor. as for the gut fluid its simple stuff think of a sprint start (link to this video notice how his whole torso is shifting forward and back, forward to project, back to absorb, (doesnt matter how wide you hips are as long as you have broader shoulders, its about proportions) if you have narrower hips relative to shoulder width that forward projection is gonna be much easier why? because the backwards projection (when your…