Guides
Sprint analysis, practically.
How to get footage worth analysing, how to read it without a coach standing next to you, and the faults that turn up most often. Traced back to what actually causes them rather than what they look like.
- How to film your sprint for video analysisWhere to stand, what frame rate to use, how much of the run to capture, and the filming mistakes that make a clip unusable for biomechanical analysis.
- How to analyse your own sprint form without a coachA practical order of operations for a self-coached sprinter: what to look at first, which faults are causes and which are symptoms, and where self-analysis stops being reliable.
- Seven common sprint form mistakes, and what actually causes themThe faults that show up most often in sprint video. Overstriding, popping up out of the blocks, back-side mechanics, straining, each traced back to its actual cause rather than its appearance.
Related reference
Every measurement these guides refer to is defined on the what we measure page, and the phase each fault belongs to is covered under the five phases of a sprint.