"Ritz could easily break the two hour mark in the marathon"

Avocado's Number wrote:

The guy behind this video, Bob Prichard, is really something:

http://somaxsports.com/blog/page/2/

"Our runners usually cut a minute per mile or more off their running pace after we increase their stride angle."

He's also figured out why Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson suck at golf, and what he can do to help them:

http://somaxsports.com/blog/tag/golf/

Regarding the horse stride length, I wonder whether Prichard realizes that Secretariat also had the largest heart in race history. Larger aerobic capacity enables longer stride length during non-sprint races, perhaps?

i have to admit those burning brakes were pretty cool

What a wag! I think he must have felt like Holly did here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEu0o62ycmg

he pulled out of edinburgh's cross country race due to injury.

TWH wrote:

What a wag! I think he must have felt like Holly did here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEu0o62ycmg

So they just made the Somax video as a "red-hot jape" itself? Since they're using it to shill their service, that seems hard to believe. Either way, they're a bunch of smegheads!

malmo wrote:

I missed the burning brakes. The runner limping in pain had me in stitches.

Using that epic footage of John Stephen Akhwari in '68 to "demonstrate" one of his "points" about impact bugged me.

Nice post, though, had me rolling!

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[quote]somaxsportsscam wrote:

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Tanya Skagle wrote:

Isn't that the same video with some text added at the end? I want one that plays Yakety Sax as background music while the narrator is delivering his spiel about altering some physical characteristics without affecting any others and without requiring additional energy output.

For variety, maybe they could dub in some kind of "Wokka Wokka Wow Wow" porn groove to the stretching/groping/probing scenes.

The science is irrefutable, though. It's similar to this line of iron-clad logic: All we have to do is get a runner to increase his stride length to 7 feet and bump stride frequency up to 200 steps per minute for the marathon distance, and we'll have ourselves a sub-1:27 marathoner. Quite simple really!

Yes it is, without the toe-lift counter text, the interest in the video wanes during the Yakety Sax portion. If I had video of Ritzenhein running in a marathon pack, I could have illustrated Rtizenheins sub- 2 hour marathon in highspeed/frontwards/backwards/etc a la 'Benny Hill'.

But I thought the imagery of showing a delirious D.R. being carried by two lackeys, after supposedly doing 26,200 toe-lifts was humorous enough.

Yakety Nut

Yakety Soccer Mom

After coming home from a long day at work, there is nothing like yakety sax and sub 2:00:00 talk to laugh the blues away. Funniest thing I've seen in days!

Perhaps before the first London Olympics, where the distance was lengthened from 25 miles so royalty could watch the finish without rubbing elbows with commoners.

malmo wrote:

It's settled. The debate is over.

http://www.flotrack.org/video/403377-Dathan-Ritzenhein-NYC-Marathon-2010-Stride-Analysis

I don't think it's going to be that easy for Ritz to break 2 hours, because he was born about 70 or 80 years too early, and he simply won't be able to find the quality races he needs, to run that fast.

Pritchard is one of those guys who raises the eternal issue: Does he really believe this bullshit, or does he know he's full of shit, and which is worse?

I normally don't get involved with stuff like this, but wow... Some of the terminology fascinates me... Isolateral triangle? Yeah, the term makes sense, but it is an obscure way to say Isosclese or equilateral triangle. Shin splints are a direct result of muscle tearing? This video makes it sound like Ritz should be in a wheelchair by now.

This kind of stuff is dangerous, because somebody throws out a bunch of scientific sounding terms and some videos, and it sounds like he knows what he is talking about, and people will buy into what they are selling. I knew a guy who had taken one of these weekend types of neuromuscular courses and then told a major orthopedics researcher that "frozen shoulder" doesn't exist and proceeded to share his "expertise" on the matter...

I'll keep the term "microfiber" reserved for clothing, furniture coverings, and various dusting / floor cleaning tools... not muscle.

Wow...

I'm going to say the one on the flood of Americans who could break 2:00 is the best of the lot. Nice shots of Ryan Hall running up and down the outside of the World Trade Center.

http://www.flotrack.org/video/403373-Sub-2-Hour-Marathon-An-American-Record

Utter nonsense.

smd wrote:

I'm going to say the one on the flood of Americans who could break 2:00 is the best of the lot. Nice shots of Ryan Hall running up and down the outside of the World Trade Center.

http://www.flotrack.org/video/403373-Sub-2-Hour-Marathon-An-American-Record

I love this shit. Close up closeup shot of Ryan "bouncing" 4 inches and a long distance shot of Feyisa Lilisa purported to bounce only 1 inch!

"It's obvious that Ryan hall is in better shape than Lilisa but he's running up and down the World Trade Center with 6.8 million pounds of weight on his back"

I wonder how many toe-lifts Ryan Hall can do? Can he get out of the chair and walk? bbrrrrrrrrrrrr,whup-whup-da-da-da whup-whup-da-da-da whup-whup-da-da-da DAT - yakety yak!

"It's just like .... running up 6.4 World Trade Centers"

"It's just like .... landing with 6.8 million pounds"

"It's just like .... jabbing the brakes on your car at top speed"

"It's just like .... doing 26,200 toe lifts. You won't be able to get out of the chair and walk"

"It's just like .... twisting the steering wheel while you drive down the street"

Bob Prichards nutty videos are ..

"It's just like .... a toilet, as big as the Great Pyramids of Egypt, covered with 6.8 million tons of Zebra poop. You can see that it really stinks."

OK your turn to try your hand at the Prichard goofy analogies:

"It's just like .... ???"

Yup, I agree.