This post wont be that easy to read, and many wont want to read any of it, but I thought I'd share it.
I know a guy who trains athletes correct co-ordination patterns.
He trains the best golfers, baseballers etc in the world.
Basically the belief in what he does is that all sports movement starts at the ground.
What you do with your feet (creating torsion etc) is what eventually delivers the power.
But the only way that power is correctly transferred to the end result is by making sure all sequences of the action are trained correctly.
It's pretty deep and changes dependant on the sport. But things like "when should your hip rotate, and then the shoulder, and then the leg" etc. etc. (known as Kinetic Link)
They measure everything in 3D and then train to get the co-ordination patterns correct.
In effect they remove any power leaks.
So I thought I'd ask him about the kicking action. ie. why can some kick it a long way.
I found his answer with regards to injuries interesting.
You will struggle to read his reply a bit. This guy nearly died in a horrific accident a few years ago and had to learn how to read and talk again, so sometimes it shows up in what he writes. Just try to find a way through it
Again, many wont want to read it
Q: Do many cricketers or footballers do this sort of stuff?
I was thinking about it today.
You see a lot of bowlers leak power through the delivery stride, and you can see great kickers of the footy who just can’t kick it long distances.
This cannot come down to muscle etc.
It’s a technique issue of course, but is it the lack of use of ground forces that restrict the power on release / impact?
A: I did a bunch of testing for an AFL club, what we did find between efficient kickers who kicked to the ball long and accurate in comparison to a short kicker. Is how efficiently they utilised all the power generated from the ground up and transferred all their speed into the football. The guys who kicked it long utilised majority of all their speed from the ground up. They had great connection with the ground and had an effective kinetic link.
Short kicker, break down in ground connection and stability, acceleration deceleration patterns were poor or break downs. Muscular loading or break downs in stretch shorten cycle of muscles in segments. Again they have a break down in their kinetic link to utilise speed and power at the point of impact.
What we have found short kickers or kickers have break downs in their kinetic link have a high rate of injuries. Mainly ACL’s, hamstring tears etc. This is due to create over acceleration speed of the kicking leg, producing superficial speed to over compensating for a break down in their link. This cause over extension of the knee and hip extension.
This is due to there aren’t using the stretch/shorten of the muscles to accelerate deceleration of each segment. Instead if the segment decelerating it kick on acceleration put velocity and force on their knee joint centres and muscles.
Again it’s the left leg, torso, right leg, knee extension, foot. Kinetic link.
The stretch shorten applies between each segment.
Bowling is similar to throwing a baseball really again same old same old again.
It’s all about coordination or the muscles and ground in any sport really once you have the basic understanding cycling, running, walking and kicking are a similar pattern in movement and coordination.
Any rotational sport like, tennis, baseball and golf again similar patterns in coordination and movement. The same principles apply.
Although when it comes to the sport at hand you have to train the coordination and movement specific to that activity. This is known as specific activity coordination. We Tailor Progressive Skills Training specific to that activity and custom built specific and individually for that athlete.
Nothing new in these sports or difference really Vin
I know a guy who trains athletes correct co-ordination patterns.
He trains the best golfers, baseballers etc in the world.
Basically the belief in what he does is that all sports movement starts at the ground.
What you do with your feet (creating torsion etc) is what eventually delivers the power.
But the only way that power is correctly transferred to the end result is by making sure all sequences of the action are trained correctly.
It's pretty deep and changes dependant on the sport. But things like "when should your hip rotate, and then the shoulder, and then the leg" etc. etc. (known as Kinetic Link)
They measure everything in 3D and then train to get the co-ordination patterns correct.
In effect they remove any power leaks.
So I thought I'd ask him about the kicking action. ie. why can some kick it a long way.
I found his answer with regards to injuries interesting.
You will struggle to read his reply a bit. This guy nearly died in a horrific accident a few years ago and had to learn how to read and talk again, so sometimes it shows up in what he writes. Just try to find a way through it
Again, many wont want to read it
Q: Do many cricketers or footballers do this sort of stuff?
I was thinking about it today.
You see a lot of bowlers leak power through the delivery stride, and you can see great kickers of the footy who just can’t kick it long distances.
This cannot come down to muscle etc.
It’s a technique issue of course, but is it the lack of use of ground forces that restrict the power on release / impact?
A: I did a bunch of testing for an AFL club, what we did find between efficient kickers who kicked to the ball long and accurate in comparison to a short kicker. Is how efficiently they utilised all the power generated from the ground up and transferred all their speed into the football. The guys who kicked it long utilised majority of all their speed from the ground up. They had great connection with the ground and had an effective kinetic link.
Short kicker, break down in ground connection and stability, acceleration deceleration patterns were poor or break downs. Muscular loading or break downs in stretch shorten cycle of muscles in segments. Again they have a break down in their kinetic link to utilise speed and power at the point of impact.
What we have found short kickers or kickers have break downs in their kinetic link have a high rate of injuries. Mainly ACL’s, hamstring tears etc. This is due to create over acceleration speed of the kicking leg, producing superficial speed to over compensating for a break down in their link. This cause over extension of the knee and hip extension.
This is due to there aren’t using the stretch/shorten of the muscles to accelerate deceleration of each segment. Instead if the segment decelerating it kick on acceleration put velocity and force on their knee joint centres and muscles.
Again it’s the left leg, torso, right leg, knee extension, foot. Kinetic link.
The stretch shorten applies between each segment.
Bowling is similar to throwing a baseball really again same old same old again.
It’s all about coordination or the muscles and ground in any sport really once you have the basic understanding cycling, running, walking and kicking are a similar pattern in movement and coordination.
Any rotational sport like, tennis, baseball and golf again similar patterns in coordination and movement. The same principles apply.
Although when it comes to the sport at hand you have to train the coordination and movement specific to that activity. This is known as specific activity coordination. We Tailor Progressive Skills Training specific to that activity and custom built specific and individually for that athlete.
Nothing new in these sports or difference really Vin
