With a
complex movement like the block start comes the correct techniques for each of
the phases of the start. A crouch start as been proved to be more effective
than the standing start as it makes use of an athletes centre of gravity being
forward of the feet, thus letting an athlete accelerate faster or else they
will topple over. Byrnes elaborates on
this by explaining a crouch start uses the gravitation fall of the body uses rotational movement to convert the falling vertical
momentum to linear motion (2012).
It must be
understood that a crouch start must be seen as apart of a whole race and not a
stand-alone movement or the entire event (Harrison, 2013), therefore, a fast or
powerful starter doesn’t not always equal the fastest sprinter. As stated
earlier the block start has four major phases. In this section I will explain
these stages and the biomechanical principles involved.
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