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The most distinctive characteristic of a player who can quickly accelerate is the quick first step. It has two key components; an explosive knee drive and a powerful total leg push-off.
After the first step, most important is to have maximum turnover speed (stride frequency) together with an increasing stride length. The faster the knee is driven forward and then back and down, the sooner the leg can make contact with the ground and the faster you can take the next step. Read more… »
Explosive football offensive and defensive backs (and often basketball, baseball, football, lacrosse and soccer players) do considerable training to increase running speed, which is very important for playing well. However, close examination of the movements of high-level football players during game play reveals that the number of runs over 20 or 30 yards is relatively low.
Most often the players use a quick burst of speed, i.e., accelerate to be the first one to get to the ball or to evade an opponent. This burst of speed is usually exhibited for no more than 10-15 yards and is one of the main characteristics of a quick and explosive player on both offense and defense. It and the ablity to execute quick cuts, is the key to getting away from your defender to be free to receive a pass, run for a touchdown or to keep up with or get to an opponent.
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