Matthew Boling will have to run something very special to make the USA team for the World championships in the 200m but in the 400m he can run more relaxed and maybe make the team in the 4 x 400m relay if not the individual event.
Agree there is no 4*200 relay at outdoor worlds. Run the 400 and make the team (longshot) maybe a relay spot or at least a mixed gender relay spot. Many more 400m runners make the travel squad than 200m runners.
He is not that calibre of runner.. Only a few special people are able to leave college and compete on the next level.... This video is really trying to milk views..
He might have a real chance in the 44 considering Norman and Ross are out. His competition now is Champion Allison, Michael Cherry, Elijah Godwin, Bryce Deadman, and Noah Williams. He has to run faster than at least three though
I will say this until my face turns purple, the 400m is literally Matthew Boling’s best event. He has consistently ran 45 mid to low in his 4x4 lead off legs. And he’s consistently ran mid 45 in the open race. I wish he would run it more cuz he could honestly be like another Jeremy Wariner
@@ronald8792 Why you getting ur panties in a knot?? It's the comment section of a RU-vid video... it's what Fans of the sport do, you know... give opinions. Lol
@TotalRunningProductions, please do a video on Adaejah Hodge. At only 16th are old, she ran a 22.33 HS 200m record at the New Balance Indoor HS Nationals. This was a 0.58 improvement over the 22.91 record set by Shawnti Jackson last month. Also, the 22.33 would have placed Adaejah Hodge 3rd at this years NCAAs. Lastly, It it should also be noted that it was only back in 2008 that Bianca Knight set the indoor NCAA record at 22.40. So to have a high schooler achieving such a performance is worth acknowledging. It will be interesting to see what she does outdoors.
You can take this as urban legend, but I heard about a study, where they took sprinters and told them to run as fast as they could. They took the time, add a couple tenths of a second to it, and told him to run 95%, try to run the slower time. They all ran faster than when they were going all out
Boling is in the middle of doing what I envisioned the ultimate route for Jeremy Wariner should have been.There was never any doubt as to Wariner's greyhound sleekness and high speed glide but as to his approach as he neared Johnson's record at the time I knew he needed to improve his 100/200/300 ultimates.I don't believe he ever worked competitively on either(certainly not extensively as Boling has done).Consequently even with his world and Olympic golds he never broke Michael Johnson's record though he still probably has one of the top 5 fastest oval sprints.Boling on the other hand started in high school with 400m intent but decided on a major shift to the 100/200 in his senior year at Strake during which time he ran the 9.98,10.1,10.13. For the last three seasons then he's progressed steadily into the sub 10,sub 20,8m+ club but has not focused on the 400m particularly at all.Now I sense he's begun a proper transition.So it's extremely necessary he continues spot competing and advancing his shorter oval race skills but only to fuel his best destinies which are the 400/LJ and maybe with more expertise coaching and training the 200m.
I agree with you, although I would add two things. Firstly Wariner wasn't a typical sprinter with high top speed and acceleration. His 20.19 PB was good but not elite, on 100m 10.92 is the only offical result but could have been around 10.10-10.30 which is still not elite. Clyde Hart focused on the 400m as that fit for Wariner, used the 200m to support his world class speed endurance. Secondly black athletes have genetically higher top speed so they rely on that, while white ones tend to focus on endurance.
Versatility is what makes him so valuable and people tend to look at just his running events. It's the fact that he's so good at the long jump along with the 60,the 100,the 200 and the 400. On top of that, you haven't even mentioned the relays. He just has the whole package and has lived up to expectations since high school. What's scarier is that I think he'll continue to improve. Always keeping up with the channel. Great work!
I said the same about Abby Steiner. She ran so many more races that at Worlds she was a tick slow but still incredible. It’s difficult to peak at Indoor, SECs, NCAAs, World Team Trails, and Worlds in one year
@@N1mai Running sprints is running sprints. They were both running against the competition at their levels. That’s a lot of races for a sprinter male or female as well as jumps
@@vernonfrance2974 'they' keep samples for years. Dunno if his were tested to the new standards? Why do you choose such hate w/ zero evidence & pure speculation?
I can relate to this burnout, my senior year of highschool from indoor and outdoor I competed in 55 races 😭 Yes of course they’re not as elite as collegiate times but i ran indoor November-February and I peaked in December and then outdoor I ran March-July and I peaked in April, so this year I’m definitely not running as much.
I agree! I did the same with indoor, outdoor, and club track during the summer. Then then nationals and junior Olympics when I made it. Couldn’t even count the number of races. Albeit I ran 100, 200, 4x1 so it wasn’t exhausting in the moment but still!
@@ryants1 I had 100,200,400,4x1,4x2,4x4 😟 not all of them are posted online, as weird as it is I write down every single race I’ve ever done incase it isn’t posted online
@@markcullen2870 how did you do so many? They allowed 4 event per person. I had long jump too but not at junior O level. I was dead enough as is with a jump between each run
@@markcullen2870 ok yeah I’m with you there. 100,200 prelim and final then 4xlong jumps and a 4x100. I was tired 😅. My endurance wasn’t great lol always short spurts for me
Every time I ran my best, my legs always felt fluid yet quick to reset in the forward position and add just the right amount of pressure going under me. I never analyzed past this yet in reflection, my starting muscles were toe-in and moved to another set of muscles that applied pressure similar to how rowers stay in sync. I feel this awareness of which muscle groups I engage and which I relax are key to preventing injury and cramp ups yet give room to inch a little more speed. I also remember head to toe, no muscles tense. I sense the tense muscles also distract from amplifying the self awareness of fine tuning body mechanics, timing, and high resolution of muscle control. In essence, mind floating like a yoga master, tuned in to only key elements toward perfect form and physique. A complete mental silence in the middle of sensory distractions such as noise, heat, cold, light, dark, and any other distractions completely ignored as unimportant and forgotten.
@@stephenwilliams7200 According to TRP's hypothesis, he overdid the early part of the season. This is quite possible. This year he is not trying to do so many events and we will see what the result will be.
@@kimchee94112 sure some do their best in the final but most don't. For example athlete from my home country (Montler) jumped 8.31 that season and didn't get a medal in fact he only placed 7th. My point being that it seems to be very hard for most athletes in long jump to reproduce results close to their best consistently. If boling was in form during the 2020 olympics he would definetly have a shot at winning a medal but so would 8 other men in that final.
I hope he does indeed peak later this year... he has so much natural speed- and as he gets physically stronger year on year, he's gonna be quite something, perhaps peaking at the next Oly's- and maybe 2028... As for what he could run... 9.8 something, 19.7 something and 43.6
When I was in HS I was leaned on for all sprinting events as well as several jumps. There was a limit of 4 events per athlete per meet, except that for regionals the pole vault was usually held on a different day at a different venue… so it was deemed that pole vaulters could compete in 4 additional events on the second day at the other venue. So, I did 5 events and scored the most points of any athlete on my team. But, yeah, that’s draining. That 5th event was always on the track and I never felt 100% for it. I didn’t do the workload over the same number of months that D1 collegiate athletes do… but I can attest to the difficulty of being asked to run everything all the time.
Never been a sprinter other than a winger in soccer but I could always outrun everybody to the ball when loose and limber, even at 50 playing against college players. It goes with this thinking of "relaxed" but it might be more accurate to be "loose" in the hips and flexible. Its the same thing this guy repeatedly says about Boling, but a different way of looking at it. Loose and quick in the hips not "relaxed" exactly, its the same idea but different frame of mind. Extensive flexibility training does allow quickness. I could never have the top speed any of these guys, Boling is gifted, and I dont have the natural ability any of these guys have, but I do know how to get the most out of what I have. Boling has a really good coach, but sometimes its hard to understand and perform the way you want to unless you can understand the concept in your own way.
He's a good match for my friend Abby from Kentucky! She can teach Matthew a little bit, and the same for him too! Him and Her would be magical in the future! It's amazing how much influence they can have to show each other! Love it!!
If he continues to run relaxed and peak during the outdoor season, we could see consistent sub 20.00s for sure and a few sub 19.90s and maybe a sub 19.85.
June, July and August is pretty much a 90 day stretch…of competition….how many races ? He should pick his days to race, the number of races, not the maximum, to beat his prior personal bests ! Thanks for the rundown. 👍🏻
I have often wondered whether the qigong practice of zhan zhuang (post standing) would help sprinters like Boling relax at maximum exertion. Post standing teaches you how to relax under stress.
He has amazing talent in sprints, and I'm going to say it, for a white man. And he still has much room to improve on his form, which bodes well for future faster times.
A throwdown to all the haters that counted him out! Not only has his form improved since last year but he is finally periodizing his schedule to peak at the right times. As I said in one of your previous videos, he is going to make the world championship team...bank on it!
At the 100m Bolling will run a pb of 9.89, and for the 200m he will run 20.08 as a new personal best. The 400m will also be an improvement for this young athlete, I think he will improve this distance the most, up to a pb of 44.98. Mathew Boling is just at the beginning of his career, and has 6 more years to improve his self. There is so much profit to make, and earn on his technical capabilities that if he can make these improvements he will be the new gold medalist at the Olympics. Believe me!!! 😃
Yeah I've been saying this for the past few years. There's no way you can give your absolute best performance being stretched out with all of those events he was participating in. Wayy too many. If he skip the long Jump and The 4x400 (wait until the ncaa championship) I think he'll go 19.8 /19.7. He most definitely has the potential but muscles need recovery. 5 events every tracc meet is wayyyy too much!
I think Boling can do the 4 x 400 too like he did at the Indoor Championships. However, it appears that Jacory Patterson was an example of trying too many events which ended up with him burning out and not competing up to his optimum level the way he did in the SEC Indoor Championships.
Why would anybody be a BOLING hater? Seems like a nice kid, hard worker, superb teammate, easy to coach, keeps improving, no social media F-ups. I wonder?
His start? Curious about whether his start has improved. If he can get up to top speed faster, he has the turnover. He's starting to relax and if he keeps this up he will develop to USA relay speed at least
I think that making Matt's running struggles a one dimensional issue lacks nuance. I understand you're a huge fan, and you should be given 1) He's a great sprinter and 2) he's a white athlete in a sport dominated by black people. Burnout is something all athletes experience as the season progresses. I hope he does as well as you think he will. 👍🏾
Bolling tenses up when he senses he's about to lose from what I have noticed and that's after the race has started, I'm not talking about prep...It seems that about three times a year TRP puts out another "Mathew Boling is about to break loose" video. I quit believing or waiting for Mathew to bring it but I hope I am wrong
This time TRP is using the reasoning that Boling running less early in the season will allow him to perform better in the spring outdoor season. This may prove to be true and it may not but there is a lot of thought going in to it. I remember a similar situation with Joseph Fahnbulleh and many were saying if only he developed a faster start he'd be a winner. Despite it taking a while, last year it proved to be true. He not only won the 200 m but also the 100 m.
@@vernonfrance2974 I was fired up about Boling two years ago. He has consistent,y failed to deliver on anything above NCAAlevel. There are so many blacks equal to him and then you have the world elites w h o are a level above him
@@jsigur157Why are we comparing apples and oranges exclusively with Boling? I agree that he is not as great as the best pros but we don't hesitate to call football, basketball, baseball, volleyball or softball players great while they are still on the collegiate level. Why should Boling have to be compared to the pros? Is it just because most other collegiate athletes can't beat him? Some of those world elites were no better than he is when they were his age. There is often improvement by dedicated sprinters past their mid twenties.
@@vernonfrance2974 the disappointment OP was talking about was the losses Boling has racked up over the last two outdoor seasons running against fellow collegiate sprinters. The indoor season is always so so. Wins don’t count as much
This is pretty interesting because talking about indoor over outdoor is moving the goalposts a bit because nobody in the history of indoor track and field is talked about over outdoor runners. What are his outdoor times and how many championships did he win ?
I hear experts all the time talk about how this runner is relaxed and that runner is not. Heck, they all look like they're straining, the winners and the losers 🤣🤣
I’m starting to change my mind about Matthew bowling. At first, I thought you said Eric Keltz, collegiate sprinter, but really would never make it onto the world stage. I’m starting to change their opinion.
Bolling is such a wellrounded beast. Sub 10 100, Sub 20 200, Good 400 untapped for now, Long Jump over 8.25. I mean, fuck, if he moved and competed for any non US team, he could not only be a pro sprinter, long jumper, relay, maybe even decathon over time ... and win many medals.
Finally Matthew and coaching team not burning him up. These schools need to win, but not at the expense of their superstars that they have nurtured so well. Wish you luck outdoors. Some hungry wolves are around again this year!
The legs explode with energy, the push against the Earth, is Yang. Yin, when the leg is empty. filling the body, most relaxed, most explosive. Drop the tail bone and enjoy the drive!
TRP will highlight the athletes that bring in the most traffic( Views & Clicks) & unfortunately Mathew Boling is a hugely polarizing figure ( not his fault)to online Track & Field fans. TRP understands that Mathew Boling videos will draw significantly more views than any other collegiate athlete.
It would be a brilliant massive achievement for him to make the U.S 4x400 squad this year. Competition for places will be as stiff as ever. It always is, irrespective of which big names will not be running in the event in 2023.
Boling runs with intensity much like Tyson Gay. They approach their craft in a all business manner whereas other sprinters like Noah Lyles and Andre De Grasse tend to joke around.
College athletes get used up.. they run what the coach says to get the win when it comes to championship time. They need a whole 6 months off. This was Boling best race ever. No unnecessary head movement,,, very fluid
He will "win" more by competing less!! thats for sure... Go Matthew!! Thee is some serious science to traing to peak ones performance at the right time.....
He could go VERY FAR if he wants to switch to the 400m and LJ. But hey, he is young and You have to like what you do. He is still top tier, the US is just crazy stacked when it comes to the 100m and 200m.
Hi warren, from Australia been following Matthews, progress for the last few years now love to see him do an Allen Wells and win and win a medal at the Olympics for a white man
I swear, it always looks like the dude is running up hill and into a huge head wind. If the dude could relax and stop straining, I'd love to see his times.
Before I thought he was good. Now, it's beginning to look like he is special. Maybe not the next Carl Lewis triple gold, yet medals are in his future. It looks like he is earning it too, decent gifts yet a lot of hard/smart work. He will be a great team mate on Team USA.
In both indoor 200 meter championships (last year and this), he also benefited from being in the outside lanes. The very outside lane in this years event. All the fastest times were done by all the competitors in the outside two lanes. So much easier to run fast in those lanes than the inside lanes. I keep going back and forth with what I think his potential actually is, because there are flashes of real progress, and then there are the disappointing results that always seem to follow. Perhaps he was just over worked, and this year will be different. With my skepticism in my mind, I often wonder if he would be a better fit for the open 400 meters?
It's hard to comprehend "burn out" /It's weird how really only several minutes of full exertion over a period of several month can burn you out. But that seems to be how humans operate. They're geared for amazing peak performances but only a few.You have to time them right in track I guess - not easy. For example top milers have smashed 3:50 in the mile of course, but the career record for a pedestrian highschool level sub 4:00 miles is just 136 as far as I know by Steve Scott. That's the most recorde 4 minute miles ever by anyone. Usain Bolt has only broken 10 seconds officially in the 100 meters 49 times in his entire life, even though 10 seconds was very "easy" for him. You might think he had done it a 1000 times - not so. Asafa Powell has the most sub 10 second 100 m races at 97 for his entire career.
