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<blockquote data-quote="daBuzz" data-source="post: 37055" data-attributes="member: 56"><p>I took some of my baseball players to a speed and agility guy about 3 years ago and I found it fascinating to watch how much that guy could help them improve their times. I thought I was pretty good with a stopwatch but he and I both tried hand timing 40's while the kids were also running laser timed. I think I got close to the laser time one time out of about 60 different times. And by close, I mean it would register something like 4.71 and I got 4.70. The rest of the time, I was a MINIMUM of 1 tenth of a second off, but usually about 2 tenths. And even with me being aware of the timing of the laser being slower and me trying to adjust to match it, I was still almost always registering a faster time than the laser.</p><p></p><p>Now one thing I found incredibly fascinating was when they ran what he called "rolling 40's". That seemed to me to be the true test of top end speed because the players were allowed to back up as far as they wanted and then run past the start timer at full speed. The entire 40 was run at max speed so it took out the "quickness" factor and just measured the top end speed. I would think that would be a useful time for WR's whom you're recruiting as deep threat guys because you're going to want to see how much separation that kid should be able to attain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="daBuzz, post: 37055, member: 56"] I took some of my baseball players to a speed and agility guy about 3 years ago and I found it fascinating to watch how much that guy could help them improve their times. I thought I was pretty good with a stopwatch but he and I both tried hand timing 40's while the kids were also running laser timed. I think I got close to the laser time one time out of about 60 different times. And by close, I mean it would register something like 4.71 and I got 4.70. The rest of the time, I was a MINIMUM of 1 tenth of a second off, but usually about 2 tenths. And even with me being aware of the timing of the laser being slower and me trying to adjust to match it, I was still almost always registering a faster time than the laser. Now one thing I found incredibly fascinating was when they ran what he called "rolling 40's". That seemed to me to be the true test of top end speed because the players were allowed to back up as far as they wanted and then run past the start timer at full speed. The entire 40 was run at max speed so it took out the "quickness" factor and just measured the top end speed. I would think that would be a useful time for WR's whom you're recruiting as deep threat guys because you're going to want to see how much separation that kid should be able to attain. [/QUOTE]
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