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    10m speed… push angles

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          anthony on June 24, 2007 at 5:57 pm #13165

          i was working some push up starts the other day and i video taped my 10m sprint…

          i noticed i've had excessively low push angles…

          https://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1016/pushoffangles10mla5.gif%5B/img%5D

          i was also lacking relaxation !

          is there any drawback to having low push off angles at the start?

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          davan on June 24, 2007 at 9:14 pm #65340

          those angles don't look unusual. The only thing I would think about/look at is how you are obviously forcing your head down.

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          utfootball4 on June 24, 2007 at 9:57 pm #65341

          those angles don't look unusual. The only thing I would think about/look at is how you are obviously forcing your head down.

          is that really a problem as we see thats how many athletes of today run?

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          davan on June 24, 2007 at 11:14 pm #65342

          I think the difference is he really seems to be forcing it and causing stiffness. If it happens naturally I dont see it as a problem, but it doesn't appear that way to me.

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          Isaiah Miller on December 31, 2011 at 8:46 am #113684

          i was working some push up starts the other day and i video taped my 10m sprint…

          i noticed i've had excessively low push angles…

          [URL=https://imageshack.us][IMG]https://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1016/pushoffangles10mla5.gif[/img][/URL]

          i was also lacking relaxation !

          is there any drawback to having low push off angles at the start?

          Wow this is terrible, but that’s what happens when some dumb a** tells you to stay low/don’t pop up. Coaches and athletes have the misconception that athletes need to stay low which is wrong. Athletes need to start low and gradually rise. Thanks to this site I have learned that lesson 🙂

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          W.E. Price on December 31, 2011 at 3:57 pm #113694

          Does seem to affect the step length progression as well.

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          Isaiah Miller on January 1, 2012 at 4:56 am #113695

          Does seem to affect the step length progression as well.

          Not to mention how off balance he is…You can’t go 100mph if you don’t shift out of 1st gear…Athletes myself included will make the mistake of holding themselves in 1st gear while thinking we are accelerating haha what a mistake.

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