Who has the best form ever?

Hey doot doot.

Excellent analysis. (also let's not forget Tirunesh Dibaba for women)

I think the best thing to do is to take a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2rHmSKqs2w

Oh boy.

That was a really fun race.

doot doot wrote:

farts wrote:

absolutely 100% lagat. That's what has accounted for his incredible range

This would be my vote if Bekele's same form didn't translate to road and cross country. I know that's not a criteria in the question, and we can *assume* Lagat's form would have held up under those rigors, but Bekele's is demonstrably suitable for all. And dominant. A lot of people (even Hermens..?) speculated that Bekele's powerful, poppy form wouldn't be suitable for the road, but it hasn't been a disaster...

Kipchoge is a close-behind these two men. He's got cross prowess too if memory serves. As already mentioned, his performance late in the London 'thon was absolutely sublime.

Farah's stride is too long. It gets him and others in trouble. He isn't 6'2" like Rudisha, no reason for a 2 meter stride.

I forgot your analysis.

be sure that Bekele's injury with his milage doesn't have to do anything with his form, other wise he would be injured all the time again and again if not changing his form. All profesional athletes have injuries here and there becuase they push their body to the limit, not because of a bad form.

doot doot wrote:

farts wrote:

absolutely 100% lagat. That's what has accounted for his incredible range

This would be my vote if Bekele's same form didn't translate to road and cross country. I know that's not a criteria in the question, and we can *assume* Lagat's form would have held up under those rigors, but Bekele's is demonstrably suitable for all. And dominant. A lot of people (even Hermens..?) speculated that Bekele's powerful, poppy form wouldn't be suitable for the road, but it hasn't been a disaster...

Kipchoge is a close-behind these two men. He's got cross prowess too if memory serves. As already mentioned, his performance late in the London 'thon was absolutely sublime.

Farah's stride is too long. It gets him and others in trouble. He isn't 6'2" like Rudisha, no reason for a 2 meter stride.

All profesional runners haveva stride of more than 2m, Farah's is around 2.25-2.20, and no, it's not too long. If he can maintain it without much effort during a long run than he has an advantage, because that's where the money is, at stride length. That what makes the elites elites- their long stride, not their high cadence, because high cadence can be found at many amature runners too.

Running economy/efficiency can be measured…and improved.

It is not just about running form or the size of the lower leg.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15233599

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23914932

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14607850

kikKomen Soi sauce wrote:

I would say Bekele, but his form has led to injury problems over the past few years. In that case, Kipchoge has the best form, as he has been very successful in both 5k and marathon, with few if any injury problems.

But that's because he is a lizard man with weird lactic acid eating parasites living in his left quadricep.

Mo always looks like he is over-striding, nonetheless it has been effective.

Yuki Kawauchi

No one else can even closely match the sheer volume of high level races that he has done the last 3 years without breaking down so he must have very good biomecanics.

old guy 70 wrote:

Frank Shorter

Maggie Vessey

BMart and Ludlow in this race too. 2009

Vivian Cheruiyot.

Third grade ASL school teacher named Anita. Breathtaking when in motion.

Asafa Powell's form is solid.

BEN MOTHER FVCKING JOHNSON, BITCH3S!!

Real old guy wrote:

[quote]old guy 70 wrote:

Frank Shorter

Maggie Vessey

Sorry wrong video. Real old guy for sure! Meant this one:

Bmart and Ludlow and Vessey

rjm33 wrote:

Running economy/efficiency can be measured…and improved.

It is not just about running form or the size of the lower leg.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15233599http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23914932http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14607850

Elite athletes running 128km per week? What a joke.

Hey doot doot.

Do you want to read some more about running economy/efficiency?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887549/

That really was a fun article.

rjm33 wrote:

Hey doot doot.

Do you want to read some more about running economy/efficiency?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887549/

That really was a fun article.

Nice link

G. Mutai and Lawi Lalang.

I always thought they both had awesome looking strides.