High Schooler MATT BOLING 9.98

zxcvzcvx wrote:

Ordinarily, seniors will turn 18 prior to September of the year they leave high school, so he's about a year older than the typical hs senior.

Whaaaaaaat? There's no way this can be true. Being 17 your entire senior year and most of your summer would suck. No way i would let that happen to my kids if they have a birthday in the summer.

That’s the norm unless your kid is an idiot. Why would you want your kid going through school being older than his peers and being taught a grade level behind his or her actual age? It will stifle their intellectual growth. When your kid was 10, did you have him playing on the 9 year old soccer and baseball teams? Wouldn’t you rather have your kid playing up a year and studying up a year rather than down. Sounds like a future ditch digger or garbage man or cleaning lady.

Should 26 year olds compete in college?

Am I the only one who notice a problem with this guy?

19 and still in high school. If you turn 19 , most states won't let you compete. Is Texas ass backwards.

He should be a second semester sophomore in college.

critic100 wrote:

Am I the only one who notice a problem with this guy?

19 and still in high school. If you turn 19 , most states won't let you compete. Is Texas ass backwards.

He should be a second semester sophomore in college.

Except that he isn't 19.

Doesn't turn 19 until June. Plenty of people are 18 during all or part of their senior year.

Why do so many of you obsess with these minor age differences/deviations?

This kid's perfs would be phenomenal of a college frosh.

Hey.......,White lives matter!!!!

Hard to tell much from the vid, but it looked good--although he definitely was helped by the wind. He looks technically sound, but like he needs to put more force into the track. Not sub-10 material, yet. He also fatigues, you can see it in his arm action in the latter part of the race.

Although you can tell he's young by how he sprints, he is very promising.

Everyone in Texas holds their boys back in kindergarten so they will have a better shot in sports. Schools have tried pushing back, but you can always get some child psychologist or diagnostician to come in and say that your kid is behind developmentally and would benefit from behind held back. Then, the school is put on the spot and always folds due to legal issues. My kid has an August birthday and is the youngest in his class. There are a couple of kids who were held back in K in his class and they are almost two years older and a head taller. It is pretty ridiculous.

I will say that I think this kid has tremendous potential. His start is lousy and he starts to fall apart a bit the last 20m. But his acceleration is world class. Reminds me of the early videos of Bolt when he switched to the 100/200. With big improvements in his start and finish, he will definitely run sub 10 in legal conditions with a field of Div I sprinters.

He is also a bit inefficient with a slight backwards lean.

critic100 wrote:

Am I the only one who notice a problem with this guy?

19 and still in high school. If you turn 19 , most states won't let you compete. Is Texas ass backwards.

He should be a second semester sophomore in college.

He turns 19 in a month. For him to be a second semester college sophomore now would mean he would’ve had to been 16 entering his 2nd semester as a high school senior, which is not remotely the case nationwide.

Why try to argue a point when you can’t even get basic details right? It undermines your credibility.

BigTex wrote:

He is also a bit inefficient with a slight backwards lean.

Tough to tell from the vid, but I agree. It is another sign of a lack of force, and he reaches a bit because of it.

Precious Roy wrote:

His start is lousy... With big improvements in his start and finish, he will definitely run sub 10 in legal conditions with a field of Div I sprinters.

I’m not seeing a lousy start, what makes you think so? Any better vids?

But Roy, the last part was a classic. It’s another way of saying that he is not near sub-10.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

BigTex wrote:

He is also a bit inefficient with a slight backwards lean.

Tough to tell from the vid, but I agree. It is another sign of a lack of force, and he reaches a bit because of it.

I watched it in person and noticed the slight backwards lean in all of his races.

Hani Saleem wrote:

Doesn't turn 19 until June. Plenty of people are 18 during all or part of their senior year.

Why do so many of you obsess with these minor age differences/deviations?

This kid's perfs would be phenomenal of a college frosh.

It would be great if they enter him in Prefontaine meet. 6th-8th ladt year 10.12-10.16.

I could see something like 10.04 there for him. Pre is at Stanford this year, not sure how much of a sprinters track that is. Boling would be 19 and 10 days old. National H.S. record is held by a 19 year old. 1 month after his 19th.

Hani Saleem wrote:

Doesn't turn 19 until June. Plenty of people are 18 during all or part of their senior year.

Why do so many of you obsess with these minor age differences/deviations?

This kid's perfs would be phenomenal of a college frosh.

If this kid lived in Ohio, he could compete NEXT YEAR!!

KT1 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=36&v=q8i2RsYqcNw

Future world champion?

Editor's note: The wind was 4.2 m/s.

Converting it for wind, it's equivalent to a 10.16 in still conditions according to Jonas Mureika's calculator. The run reminds us very much of Odapele Thompaon's 9.69 in 1996 when he was a 20-year old at UTEP (5.0 m/s). Thompson was a great sprinter (Olympic bronze in 2000) but his career best with a legal wind was 9.96.

http://jmureika.lmu.build/track/wind/index.html

Let's not go crazy. I know that electronic timing adds almost 0.2 to 100 meter times but we still should not

forget those who came before. Do we forget Alexander Graham Bell or Franklin D. Roosevelt?

If you want to talk about the "fastest man in white skin," let's not forget people like

Germany's ARMIN HARY who ran 10.0, and BOBBY MORROW and CHARLIE PADDOCK from the USA who ran 10.2.

Remember that those guys ran on clay, grass, and sometimes cinder tracks. Those are much, much slower

surfaces, plus they ran in 5 pound shoes, had very little knowledge of training, medicine, prevention of injuries,

and etc.

5lb!!

"...improvements were the lighter weight, the heel counter stiffener, the pre-fabricated nylon spike plate with integrated thread inserts and the foam heel pad.

materials: the upper is made of kangaroo leather. the inlay sole is made of textile sheet material which is padded with latex foam. the insole is made of vegetable tanned bottom leather and the spike plate of polyamide 6 (nylon). the outsole is made of profiled compact rubber, the heel-shank padding of foam. the thread inserts are made of aluminum and the screw-in studs of granite steel".

Probably more like 5 ounces. 435 grams becuse this pair is dipped in Gold.

Being 17 your entire senior year and most of your summer would suck.

Depends on the state for the cut-off date and if you were held back. I didn't turn 18 until fall of my freshman year.