Surface , shoes, weather, and a myriad of other nuances make the way you time the yard dash unique. In classroom terms, I believe we should be using the yard dash as a formative assessment as well as a summative one.
I know the way I time apples is not the way the NFL does oranges , but both do a good job of providing feedback. Sure, it makes them feel good, but it does not make them better. I use Freelap to time the yard dash, on a rubberized track wearing spikes. We use the touchpad as a consistent way to tether our athletes to a moment of near-zero forward momentum. For those unfamiliar with Freelap , 80 centimeters accounts for the radius of the electromagnetic field produced by the transmitters.
By setting up the system the way I have explained, we acquire 10 pieces of data from one single attempt: yards, , , , , , , , , and In my three years timing athletes using Freelap, I have had two athletes break 4. Coincidentally, those are the only two skill players who have been offered any form of NCAA Division I football scholarship. With that knowledge, we know running in the 4. Our favorite two segments to analyze are and , and the formula for success is simple: 2.
If the athlete can find just one-hundredth of a second, they break 4. Two seasons ago, I had two athletes run 4. Athlete A ran 2. Athlete B ran 2. Identical outcomes with significantly different speed profiles! Athlete A needed maximum velocity intervention while Athlete B had significant room to improve on his acceleration.
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Even though the server responded OK, it is possible the submission was not processed. Friend's Email Address. Your Name. Your Email Address. These scouts want to see explosion, burst and speed—both in a short area 10 yards from a still start and over a long distance 40 yards.
In , one could realistically argue that no other event at the combine is given more importance to an individual player's draft stock than the yard dash. Speed is a valuable commodity in the modern game of football, and few tests are better at separating the slow from the fast. This makes sense, as a traditional punt can be expected to travel anywhere from 40 to 50 yards beyond the line of scrimmage.
Timing a player in that interval would have allowed Brown to find the fastest players to cover on special teams. At one time, the yard dash was only important to certain positions. Cornerbacks, wide receivers and running backs have always needed to be faster than the rest, and they therefore originally saw the most pressure to perform well in the event. But slowly, the importance of speed has grown to all positions.
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