Exactly man I had been saying that all along, Josh Kerr has the superior biomechanical patterns for sprinting and for 1500m/mile in general and quite reminiscent of Hicham El Guerrouj!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Josh Kerr has a very relaxed and compact biomechanical profile and the guys on LRC underestimate the importance of the relax-ness and compactness because they think it's not a worthy factor in energy conservation and efficiency at speed. Well they are now very wrong to the core.
Any good distance coach or guru knows that the first thing they see when an athlete comes to them is the way he moves his body, his biomechanics at various speeds and paces. They don't check his lactate level nor his historical splits and paces for his interval workouts nor analyze what he eats at breakfast lunch and dinner or how many massages he used to get. First, they look AT THE WAY HE MOVES AND RUNS, his levers and the efficiency of his levers!!! It's a running sport DUH!!!!! You don't bother about BS lactate levels first!!!!!
And I have been doing that all along on LRC or youtube. When a runner runs, I don't give a damn about his 400m splits first or his positioning, I give a damn about THE WAY HE MOVES HIS BODY, I look for ease-ness of motion, frequency, direction, positioning, aerodynamic-ness, how does everything fit in the whole???????
Visual inspection in space and time is very important and any tiny fault or past niggle/injury will be revealed in anyone's biomechanics, even including whether or not the likelihood of PED assistance as many athletes get a sudden upregulation in all the levers of their biomechanics upon PED consumption such as Cole H and Grant F at 2024 US Olympic trials to name a few. The way an athlete moves in space and time can be indicative of PED use and/or reveal any and every adversity he may have had in the past.
An athlete's biomechanical movement patterns is like AN EVIDENCE BANK, or a HISTORY BANK, keeping evidence of every single event that has happened to his health both positively and negatively!!!!
Cheers and much love from GB!!!!!!