Cristiano Ronaldo races against professinal sprinter Angel David Rodríguez on tested to the limit. DISCLAIMER: I do not own this. All rights belong to the makers of Cristiano Ronaldo- Tested To The Limit.
It's more impressive that Ronaldo nearly matched the sprinter in a straight line dash. Especially since his form was lacking a few tweaks that would have put him in the lead if rectified.
Soshiance Yavari Dude 0,3 s diffrence in 25m is alot. 25m x 4 = 100m 0,3 x 4 = 1,2s he runs a 10.40? so that means Ronaldo only runs a 11.60. And he even got an advantage over the sprinter because hes wearing better shoes for acceleration rofl.
***** You can't calculat this way. At start, he lose time because he must push on his body to the tempo. The second 25 meter are faster because he has a "flying start" for this.
Not many know this, but they actually tested his swimming technique as well and let Michael Phelps comment on it: "From a swimmers point of view eh Cristiano Ronaldos diving teqniche isn't the besst, but then Cristiano is not a diver... wait"
0,3 SECONDS ITS A LOT, OF COURSE. iT MEANS 1,2 SECONDS DIFFERENCE IN 100 M SPRINT, AND PROBABLY OVER, BECAUSE RONALDO HAS NOT SPECIFIC TRAINING FOR SPRINT.
@@209benny7 Yes, the difference should be almost 2 seconds. Sprinters don't even accelerate before 30m. But football players use their top speed as soon as possible because they train to reach for the ball.
+Janice Erhunmwunsee It seems you didn't get the joke. It was kind of racist too. He was saying how blacks are usually the sprinters and whites are smarter/the scientists. In this case he was pointing out that they weirdly found a white sprinter and it's a black scientist doing the tests so you saying "I'm black and I'm the fastest girl on the track team" makes his point. lol
+Jason Pham Why can't he explain any jokes to those who don't understand the context of them? Your joke is racist there's no way around it, Jason. Cowards like yourself can't ever owe up to your actions, and always try to deflect any criticism. Just because one foolish girl likes your joke doesn't mean that she speaks for the community.
What kind of stupid person are you to think that it is an advantage to the sprinter it isn't Cos' Ronaldo is using light soccer shoes and the sprinter has heavy trainers....dum dum
Mate it' super dumb you know why? Sprinters are comfy in their own shoes and footballers in their own. You can injure your ankles if you start wearing gear you ain't used to. It takes time to get used to cleats, so very dumb arguement
They aren't necessarily want to know who wins... they are looking to see the way they move. How their running style helps them. I agree that if it was a race for who would win, it would be unfair, they should both have boots.
***** I'm talking about the fact that they are looking at the body positions. Watch it closely, they say that they watch the way they run, how their strides are different because ronaldo is always thinking about what he is doing, like all of us that play futbol, where the other guys isn't.
***** You are misunderstanding me completely. THEY ARE COMPERING THE WAY THEIR BODIES MOVE! I never said cleats were unnecessary, I said that they really aren't necessarily looking only at who wins, there is an obvious difference in their style. Watch the whole documentary and you'll see what I mean...
it's all advantage for Ronaldo on both run, he was wearing cleats while Rodriguez was wearing running shoes, it could be seen especially on a lateral movement such as the zig zag. This drill requires a lot of grip and ankle support in which shoes make a big difference.
Lol. Not that I really care about this I just think that if they're going to conduct such a technical comparison between the two they should probably be wearing the same footwear..lol
To everyone that keeps saying this is unfair: Its not unfair because they aren't looking only at who wins, they are looking at the way they move. In futbol, you have to always be thinking, where is sprinting, you know where you have to go. Listen to them, they were comparing their strides and turns. I think it was good they let them keep the shoe they were most used to and most comfortable in because you're going to run better in the shoe you normally run in. I agree that this would be unfair if they did this for only the purpose of who won.
notice that rodríguez is wearing heavy trainers that are terrible for sprinting but ronaldo is using much lighter football boots that would significantly disrupt the results.
Eddie Miles and who scored the world cup goals and goals agains the best teams in football history with and against the best players and goalkeepers in the world ?
its jsut a joke that they try to make this look "scientific". they even wear different shoes which makes such a big difference. there cant be a accurate result if they dont wear the same shoes.
bigman25plus25 That's for sure not the case. It looks like turf, which for a straight line, you might be right, but changing direction, I bet if the guy with running shoes did a two foot jump into it, he's just slide and fall down.
Did anyone else notice Ronaldo slowed down towards the end while the sprinter carried on sprinting(which was the right thing to do). Ronaldo wasn't wearing spikes. Ronaldo's sprinting is raw and is not refined like Rodriguez's. I'm talking about the motion and form of his body while sprinting. And still he came really damn close to the professional sprinter. Good stuff.
+SuperAvocado Yes you are definitely butthurt that he's calling you out for copying half the top comments, you know you did, hence the 'LOL are you that stupid?' comment.
SuperAvocado But you are saying the same thing as half the top comments so...... you got some likes though, that's all you wanted right? congratz well earned likes! Lol
so many people in these comments clearly have never done track before. 3.31-3.61 is a massive difference, i can't believe people said he would beat bolt in a 100m... lmao this guy ronaldo is running against isn't even a top 50 world sprinter let alone the fastest man in the world. there has only been like 70 people to run the 100m under 10 seconds and so far only one white guy has done it, Angel David Rodríguez best time is 10.14 which is world class but bolt runs a 9.53 which is honestly unheard of. Ronaldo would likely be at the 60m line when bolt finishes.
***** He would do well to even get to a Jr women's final. 3.61 is pretty slow. I would say he is as fast as a national ranked 14/15 year old girl in the UK/US.
Joey S Yet there is no soccer player in UK/US that even come close to CR7. I would even go farther, there is no soccer player in UK/US history that even come close to Ronaldo.
0.3 difference in 25m... Ok, we all know that Cristiano can't rub sub-11sg the 100m for shit. PD: To anyone saying the sprinter sucks. He is the Spanish National record holder in 100m: 10.14sg pretty good if you ask me ¿or can anyone here beat his mark?
You guys dont seem to understand how much 3/10 of a second is on a 25 meter dash.. The sprinters PB is 10.14 and assuming his time with these trainers at 100m would be about 10.5 seconds Ronaldo would still be way above 11 seconds on the 100m dash. He loses 0.3 secs on 25m, so lets estimate he´d be losing at least 1.2 seconds on 100m (probably even more than that) which would be about 11.7 seconds, which is not extremely fast for a soccer player. I can't listen to those comparisons between sprinters and soccer players anymore. Soccer players just cannot keep up with straight line sprinters.
0.3 seconds x 4 =1.2 seconds, and above because Ronaldo hasn't specific training for 100m . In a 100m sprint with starting blocks, reaction time and electric crono , i think he runs in 11.70 seconds.
@@larissakomakha6841 Ronaldo jogged at the end so its more like 0.2 x 4 = 0.8. The sprinter does 10.2 so ronaldo around 11. And with some track training ronaldo can def run in the 10s
the fastest football players probably can do a low 11s 100 metres. All the young players are quick nowadays, back when this was filmed Ronaldo was the quickest but a lot of guys like Mbappe and Sterling would smoke Ronaldo in a 100 metre dash. The fastest I ever ran a 100 metres was 11.6 and I don't do as much training as these players do, i trained for sprinting but not as much as these players do. I'm saying that Mbappe or someone like that would get a low 11 time and maybe even break 11 seconds with proper sprint training.
Ronaldo's running form is good for football. It takes into account when he has the ball. I am a former sprinter and I played football a lot - it often fucked with my running form and slowed me down, but made me faster with the ball due to shorter strides.
Jeremiah Meade sprinters wear a DIFFERNT type of cleats so he is at the disadvantage Becuase he will slip those shoes are for long distance not ACUTAL sprinting
(I am Jeremiah) I am aware of that... I am both a sprinter and soccer player and I'm not bad at either one (look at the two videos I posted on my Jeremiah Meade channel for track, but I don't have any of me playing soccer, my team recently one district and we are going to quarterfinals for state now in soccer) anyway... they should be wearing the same type of footwear for this to be a legit experiment.
Are you kidding? He lost by .3 on 30 meters, which translates into over a second in 109 meters. Given Ronaldo's lousy form and short stride, it would likely be much more. Ronaldo would have a tough time breaking 11.5. He's a great footballer, but he's out of his league in sprinting.
Everyone says 'Put him against an NFL runnigback'. No. Put him against an actual sprinter. Someone running actual oly numbers sub 10.1. Then do the test. NO COMPARISON.
so when ronaldo loses by .3 seconds in a 3-4 second race it's considered 'narrow,' but when he wins by .5 seconds in a 6-7 second race it's 'quite a margin' someone make sense of this for me?
He is wearing cleats which are used to quickly stop and change direction in the grass (or turf). It also allows for you to "grip" the ground for more traction. In other words give them both cleats if you are running on turf.
first test was about just running, surely both of them have tried that before, but for the second test, seems like the sprinter did not have experience with before, so he did not know the better way to run through it. still ronaldo is fast but i think the sprinter could have won if he trained for the second test too
Bernd Bananenbieger I was talking about the zig zag race. I'm sure the sprinter would have won if he had spikes instead of flat shoes. Ronaldo had much better grip with his soccer shoes.
So what did we learn today? Athletes who are trained to run in a straight line are better at running straight lines, as opposed to an athlete who is trained in agility to shift directions... who is better at shifting directions. Save your time, move on to another video
Not that fast either of them. Did the calculations and top NFL athletes, who test with 40 yard dash, at their speed would clock at 2.9 at this distance tested in this video. By the way, the NFL athletes don't use blocks to start.
Wait, why is the sprinter wearing conventional running shoes while CR gets to where cleats doing the zig-zag course? In that case CR has a huge advantage over the sprinter!
People mention cleats or w/e I guess these "tests" were made with the profession of the relative performers involved. The only thing you need worry about is the difference in time between the 2 seperate tests, which show that a footballer is better at the weaving course and a sprinter is better at straight line speeds.
The athlete learns to do specific tasks by practicing those tasks over and over. The sprinter lacks the soccer player's skills and vice versa because they haven't trained the same way or performed the same sport. Do any of you get that?
I don't understand why people compare the sports to the level of one is harder/better then the other. Each sport has mechanics, training, and thinking involved in it regardless of what it is.
i understand that they both beat each other at their own strength but imagine if one of them beat the other at the others strength that woulda been kind of sad lmao
Chaos No, not even close. In a track 100m race an American football player in the speedier positions would crush any soccer player. Most of those guys train as pure power athletes, and come from a track background. Good NFL guys had 10.xx type times to their name. Now, that is not to say soccer players are inferior athletes; they just don't have the same training emphasis. Soccer is a balance if agility, speed, and endurance; football is nothing but pure power and speed. Have that NFL runningback play 45 min of soccer and do the same race again...and NFL player gets creamed.
***** Some of what you say is true, but the idea that Chris Johnson's speed is comparable to Bolt is like saying a hare can hang with a cheetah. It's not close Bolt runs 100m (notably longer than 100 yards). He has covered that in 9.58 seconds, which would be 40m in 3.83! Now convert that for yards and you get....3.50!! To make it even more lopsided, the combine uses hand timing, whereas electronic timing is used in sprint races. The typical conversion from a hand time to FAT is .2, so Bolts combine 40 yard would be 3.3 seconds. Now, you might be tempted to say well the first part of the sprint is the slowest because of acceleration, but if you look up Bolts actual splits he covered the first 40m in 4.3 seconds, which converted to yards and -.2 for FAT gives a 40 yard combine time of 3.74.
Ronaldo is quite fast especially when you consider how inefficient his sprinitng technique is. By changing his technique, he would get a much faster time. Ronaldo's technique is helpful for soccer though because having your arms out is typical to hold off opponents and for maintaining balance while having to change directions or absorb contact. Ronaldo is actually better build than the pro sprinter for sprinting. He's taller and more muscular. They should do a video where Ronaldo learn and do sprinters form and see what time he gets.
footballers hardly have to do anything but look fit and even wayne rooney isn't capable of that, but most admit was impressed with a footballer not injuring himself is something difficult to see these days.
Ummm...90 minutes of running takes more than looking fit. Even baseball professional athletes are more fit than average people, much less soccer players.
i'm amazed - at the point that this video was suggested to me, a small part of my brain managed to convince me that i give a fuck - i need to re-evaluate my life
- Let's see how good you are at running in zig zag, Ronaldo. - Because this is my eh.... Style you know. - Ronaldo, what are the odds that you'll win the champions league? - Because this is my eh.... Style you know. - Hey, Ronaldo! You wanna beer? - Because this is my eh.... Style you know.
Don't pretend to be an expert when you're quite clueless. You can't extrapolate the 0.3sec difference to be 1.2sec for 100m (even if you did add 1.2sec to Rodriguez's 10.14PB, 11.34 is still damn quick for someone who isn't a sprinter and pretty decent for an amateur sprinter). The 10m splits in a 100m are totally different, depending on the part of a race, Bolt did 10m-20m in 0.99sec and 60m-70m in 0.81sec, huge difference. Furthermore, certain sprinters, like Powell and Brommel, specialize in acceleration while guys like Bolt and De Grasse specialize in speed maintenance and max velocity. This test focuses purely on acceleration thus gives Ronaldo an advantage.
@@KX5Kat there is no “specialize” those guys just have better acceleration but bolt has a very high top end speed and he can hold it for long . I think that 1.2s is very generous
.3 seconds is hardly a narrow loss over 25. The sprinter was always going to win that race. It'd be a different story after 80 minutes of aerobic activity though Ronaldo would cream him.
0.3 narrow? watch the olympic 100m final and check out how much 0.3s diffrence is. And this is on such a small distance. Ronaldo wont even run below 11.5s lol! this sprinter is not even that good to. ( Anymore ).
He didn't narrowly loose shit, he was annihilated. .3 of a second over 25m is MASSIVE. That would probably be about 2.5+ at 100m, The sprinter wouldn't be at top speed over 25m but i bet CR was. The zig zag he was wearing running trainers again CR's football shoes? why did that change? Spikes take 7 seconds off of my 400m time and i'm shit at running. Why do people keep on claiming he's even a match for top level sprinters? He isn't.
i know that.I was a track and field athlete for 20 years and i know (based on my experience) that spikes (with the correct length) are faster than boots on grass (on a straigth line)
Usain Bolt isn't the only great sprinter. There are many other who run sub 10sec. So why a noname sprinter? To don't let ronaldo looks bad in comparison?
What? didn't understand some of the things you said. Bolt isn't the only fast sprinter yes that's true. The only problem is Bolt hasn't been caught with PED's yet. That's the problem modern sprinters are facing, some are just caught with PED's like: Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay. Both fast guys, but they`ve been caught. Bolt was almost caught too, they have to prove it though
i asked why they took a noname sprinter in the video. Maybe to give ronaldo a chance. Nothing more. About PED's it's a different story but you have to distinguish between sprinters. Also between Gay and Powell. For example Powell took oxilforin which helps you to burn fat and it is found in many medicines but it's not a performance enhancer. You have to take an extremly dose of it to enhance your perfomance and this isn't possible. It's like drinking to much coffee. Why should he take it on purpose? He often mentioned it. You can easy caught oxilforin. So it doesn't make sense. Unlike Tyson Gay he took steroids on purpose. He admit it and that's the point of the distinction. About Bolt, to be honest i don't know if he take PED's or not but jamaicas doping controlls aren't the best.
There are so many myths and bullshit surrounding how fast footballers are. Most would struggle to break 12 seconds in the 100m, the fastest would be low 11s, the only ones running in the 10s would be people who crossed over from doing track. Most footballers guesstimate their times based on what they did as a kid which is dubious at best. As for the brass tax, Theo Walcott's only confirmed time is a hand timed 11.58 as a 14 year old. That's moderately quick, but since a lot of British kids who run quicker than that then actually keep training as sprinters as adults and struggle to get in the low to mid 10s, it's dubious to just presume Walcott must be loads quicker now. Also there is absolutely no evidence that Gareth Bale ran 11.4 as a kid, again the only confirmed times he ran are 2 min 24 in the 800m and 4min 59 in the 1500m set in 2002. Everything else is just rumours and guessing. Also the quickest sprinters in the NRL did a 100m race, proper on track with spikes, the winning time was 11.1, and rugby league players are a lot more explosive and powerful than footballers.
+Earl Jellicoe that wasn't the fastest NRL (Rugby League) players though, the fastest NRL players are guys like James Roberts and Marika Koroibete and they both run it at about mid 10"s Koroibete is about a 10.6-10.5 and I'd say Roberts is about a 10.4
who dat they have probably done timed sprints, but a lot of it is recorded on what they have done in game, like how many k/ph they hit while sprinting, Koroibete even hit the equivalent of a 10.36 in a rainy game with a torn up ground
