Meet the 7 Year Old.... Being Hailed as the Next Usain Bolt

His dad seems very supportive in a positive way. That won't hurt. We've never seen a track phenom come from this deep into the youth ranks, but there could always be the Tiger Woods outlier out there somewhere.

wejo wrote:

A bit much pressure I think.

https://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-usain-bolt-fast-kid-20190213-20190213-wsgjy5q5svc5zlvg7gik2phb5i-story.html

The kid is 7 and has almost 400K followers on Instagram.................

Really????????????????

Wow, look at him go.

Trayvon Bromell came up through youth track and went sub-10 as a youth. We will see if this little guy has a similar achievement.

To give an idea of just how ludicrous a 13.48 in the 100 meters is consider this: The world record is under four seconds slower, and the world record for high schoolers is 10.00 seconds. And this is a kid who has barely had time to grow yet.

This bothers me so much: The world record is also under 6 seconds slower than the time it takes a 60-second 400 runner to run each of their 100m. What an ignorant comparison.

KoR wrote:

To give an idea of just how ludicrous a 13.48 in the 100 meters is consider this: The world record is under four seconds slower, and the world record for high schoolers is 10.00 seconds. And this is a kid who has barely had time to grow yet.

This bothers me so much: The world record is also under 6 seconds slower than the time it takes a 60-second 400 runner to run each of their 100m. What an ignorant comparison.

Holy crud. 100m in 13.48 seconds for a kid aged 7!!! This is like as fast as Olympic Champion Mo Farah ran in the Superstars TV show and faster than the Brownlees ran and those guys are 28 min 10 k runners. Maybe with his light body weight and speed this kid could blast a very fast 10k!!

I think what he's saying is that the world's fastest man ever, a professionally-trained, 6' 5" specialist in the event, only beat a second-grader by four seconds. It's pretty amazing. Think how many steps the little kid had to use.

AB2 wrote:

I think what he's saying is that the world's fastest man ever, a professionally-trained, 6' 5" specialist in the event, only beat a second-grader by four seconds. It's pretty amazing. Think how many steps the little kid had to use.

Kind of, but also consider how short 100m is. 4 seconds sounds small but the kid would lose by 30m.

That is the same margin as losing by 1.5km to Bekele in a 5k.

Or losing by 8 miles to Kipchoge.

That said, 13s is a crazy time for a 7 year old.

Jeebus, i bet this kid could beat up most of the people that post on here

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsNw1tVhDWK/

His top speed didnt look much faster than the other two kids, if at all. His start was blazing fast though.

He could be the next Willie Washington.

If you give little kids excellent coaching and get them to work hard, they will easily stick out from the crowd just because no one else is really trying that hard at that age. This kid obviously has had excellent coaching, had talent and is working hard. But success at this age does not mean much. Most kids who excel at the sprints at a young age get scooped up by the football coaches. And for the ones that don't, there is burnout, bad coaching, injuries and just finding out that your talent isn't enough to navigate before becoming a Bolt.

Also remember that Bolt wanted to play cricket and did not really show WR talent until he was 15 years old at the World Juniors.

What training did he do to get muscles like that at 7

Too much it's freaky and not going to end successfully

Not sure what everyone is freaking out about. Kid ran 13.48 and 13.74 won the USA juniors last year for that age group. Also would not be surprised if the kid was really 9.

Those abs are crazy. I've never see a 7 year old like that. So either his is training or the parents are started the juice early. Seems crazy, but parents have done lots worse. You see stuff about kids with meth head parents living in boxes of poop outside. Last time I was in Jamacia I saw a kid about 12 driving a car with six or seven other kids in the back. Also saw a couple kids around 8 driving a motorbike to school.

not a freak wrote:

Not sure what everyone is freaking out about. Kid ran 13.48 and 13.74 won the USA juniors last year for that age group. Also would not be surprised if the kid was really 9.

Those abs are crazy. I've never see a 7 year old like that. So either his is training or the parents are started the juice early. Seems crazy, but parents have done lots worse. You see stuff about kids with meth head parents living in boxes of poop outside. Last time I was in Jamacia I saw a kid about 12 driving a car with six or seven other kids in the back. Also saw a couple kids around 8 driving a motorbike to school.

Burnout. Doing too much too soon. Already has block starts down and abs. Let the kid play multiple sports. You don't need to take sports seriously until junior year of high school......then you really need to get on it.

Great running form as I expected before even seeing him.

not a freak wrote:

Not sure what everyone is freaking out about. Kid ran 13.48 and 13.74 won the USA juniors last year for that age group. Also would not be surprised if the kid was really 9.

Those abs are crazy. I've never see a 7 year old like that. So either his is training or the parents are started the juice early. Seems crazy, but parents have done lots worse. You see stuff about kids with meth head parents living in boxes of poop outside. Last time I was in Jamacia I saw a kid about 12 driving a car with six or seven other kids in the back. Also saw a couple kids around 8 driving a motorbike to school.

That's about when my dad started driving tractors and trucks on the farm.

He eventually drove himself into town...to take his drivers test.

This topic goes to support and prove my point as a long distance coach for many years. Sprinters are primarily born fast. they do very little work compared to all others on the track team. they are usually very lazy and are glorified too early. Add to this, many are steered towards football, because that's where the money and scholarships are.

As the majority of sprinters grow past their prime, they become fat. Talking on barstools about the glory days. Meanwhile your average XC member is still trim and fit in his 50's. Running in local road races, and doing well financially, because most XC teams are always #1 or top 3 in any school for team GPA.

KoR wrote:

To give an idea of just how ludicrous a 13.48 in the 100 meters is consider this: The world record is under four seconds slower, and the world record for high schoolers is 10.00 seconds. And this is a kid who has barely had time to grow yet.

This bothers me so much: The world record is also under 6 seconds slower than the time it takes a 60-second 400 runner to run each of their 100m. What an ignorant comparison.

That’s incorrect. 13.48 is not under 6 seconds slower than 15.00. It’s faster than it.

I am with WeJo on this. He's a kid. Let him be a kid. Thousands of followers on social media and a young prodigious talent is a formula that rarely works out unless his well being is put first 100% of the time. The youth track system is great, and as long as he's enjoying what he's doing then there should be no problem. But starting to draw these comparisons and putting expectations on him is going to hurt him heavily if he stops progressing or finds his interests draw him elsewhere, especially if people around him (mainly coaches and trainers) start making plans for him he doesn't want or have to follow

Whatever makes you feel better about being a scrawny distance runner buddy!