The American Race Walking Phenom Who's Changing The Game
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- The MileSplit team followed Taylor Ewert and the Beavercreek High School girls leading up to their race at the Greater Western Ohio Conference Championship (GWOC) on October, 13. At that meet, Taylor became just the third Ohio girl to break 17 minutes in the 5K.
Here's her story on how she divides her time between being the best youth race walker in the country and one of the nation's best cross country runners as well.
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I’m confused... the whole video mentions race walking but not once (except a little clip in the first 5 seconds) shows her actually race walking ??
Came here to say the same thing! So odd!
Its seems no one (not even milesplit apparently) seems to get the fact she doesn't want to be a race walker or a distance runner. She obviously wants to do both. Keep killing it Taylor you're really good at running and racewalking.
As a former good runner and race-walker, let me just say that this lady deserves enormous respect. She's doing a great job in both sports! As for me, I was a fast runner and race-walker in New York State a mere forty years ago! I walked a 7:11 mile and a "modest" 10:29 two mile, so I did not have a lot of running speed, but have run 10 miles in under 57 and 20 under 1:56. In race walking one foot has to be on the ground at all times and the trailing leg must straighten as it goes under the body. She DOES race-walk properly--that's for sure!
Sorry Tom, I respectfully disagree. I too race walked a lot 40 years ago (mid 1970s-1980s). I won two national championships and was on two national championship teams (including 50K Olympic distance). This young lady is indeed a good runner, but when race walking she is clearly 'lifting' and losing contact repeatedly. There is a very very telling photo of her at the world U20 10 championship race (dyestat.com July 15, 2018) where there she has so much air under her feet you can actually see shadows. The sport has gone to heck. There were 'cheaters' back the when you and I were racewalking, but now the sport has gone to 'heck'. Legal is legal and unfortunately she is often not legal.
Everyone has time in this society to find fault and knock someone down but hardly anyone spends a single moment with support or encouragement. I say she has the heart and courage of a lion and is what most of our youth should aspire to be like. I'll bet anything she ends up changing this world for the better while most everyone else is still laying on the couch watching TV.
Isn't it technically running when both feet leave the ground? Like at 0:01 ?
That's what I thought
Racwalking is judged by the human eye, so unless a judge could see that lift at full speed then it is not considered to be a penalty. However it was getting to be a bit excessive.
yeah it's just running with different form. Goes to show than when top runners try racewalking, they demolish
she’s running in that clip
Yes , you are right on this sport that is called floating, most of the athetles tend to do it during a race the idea behid thsi sport is that you actually have to have one feet over the floor at anytime, but she is really young is just a matter of her improving her technique
What a beautiful young lady,so focused you go girl.
shoulda done it on the fact that she ran 1730s at state then went to nxr the next day and ran about 1715
At the very start both her feet are coming off the ground over and over. She would get DQd in any big race.
sorry m8 did you watch the whole video or even read the description?
@@TrackForField I just read the description, that would not have changed my comment. I'm not sure if I watched the whole video, what in the video would have changed my comment?
sorry m8
Well...She does both race walk and running cross country. And she says she does a lot of running for her trainning for race walk as well. So yeah...both feet were off because she wasnt trying to walk in the intro.
@@TrackForField but she clearly was trying to walk in the intro. You can clearly see that by her form.
shes walking insanely fast, maybe 200 steps per min, so a judge isnt able to tell if shes lifting both feet. it helps that her shoulders are very flat while walking so you cant tell if she lifts both feet. its a tactic.
I believe that only somebody who can run fast, run long and run hard is truly free. I love runners and have a special appreciation of distance runners.
halley0413 9837 omg thank you!!
Halley0412 9837 It is a special sport that not many people understand. Pushing yourself to the limit is truly freeing. I have been running for 50 years and it has made my life so much better. Thanks for your great comment.
She lowkey wants to throw shot Instead
She seems so excited and happy with her life. I wish the best for her. I ran a 5k there at the high school every new years eve.
She is an amazing and out standing athlete, go Taylor and keep it up
im an athlete also for fun more for life like be healthy and be safe im safe from someone chasing me and if there bad knock them down be strong for it
An amazing talent. There is not much to get in the way of her determination to excel. She is focused and very mature.
🔝🔝🔝
so inspirational, you go Taylor!
Taylor: My mom would say "Oh run from there to there, I'll time you."
Taylor's Mom: She always wanted to be timed.
I remember that course when I went to a XC meet and the coarse was sooo fun 🤩
claire english course* :)
The funny thing is i ran 2 meets at northmont and a track meet at beaver creek
For college I would definitely love to see her run at a D1 school!
Julia i go to her school, she’s going to be running at Arkansas :)
Lol GWOC was at nortmont so ran there i races for springboro
That’s cool the first one I’ve seen around the Dayton area.
Race walking as an event is similar to the breaststroke in swimming. It's not the fastest way to get from one end of the pool to the other. Elite level swimmers often don't have the breast stroke in their repertoire. Michael Phelps may do an individual medley, but he's never won a medal of any color at a major world competition in the breaststroke. So, by many people's logic on this thread the breaststroke should be eliminated because it's not as fast as freestyle. What make Track & Field way more interesting than Swimming is the diversity of events. No athlete will ever win more 4 medals in track as you see happen regularly in swimming. Sprinting, middle distance, long distance, hurdles, steeplechase, vertical jumps, horizontal jumps, throws and walks. Of course, two of the greatest events are the multis, decathlon and heptathlon. Here's a factoid, two NAIA champion middle distance runners have made Olympic teams in race walk.
Allen James
im surprised thst there's other people that know what NAIA is. My college switched to NCAS Div 2 from NAIA during my freshman year.
i love breaststroke
@@annienguyen427 - of course, as a race walker, I swam breaststroke for my high school swim team. Just makes sense, right? lol!!!
Best analogy for race walking I've ever heard
Hey, you’re doing amazing, I just want to say that.
Race walking is trying to go as fast as you can but leaving your feet from the ground **there is a very slight time frame where you can fake it due to humans watching your feet and they can’t always notice it** Her racewalking is fine, watch the Olympic video on racewalking being a sport.
Every top racewalker "floats" for an instant most times until they are warned. Watch the 2016 race in Rio -- czcams.com/video/WFdAHf39dCo/video.html -- and freeze frame it to see. The camera can catch what the eye does not.
im pretty sure you have to have one foot on the ground at all time so like what was going on there at the beginning
Go Taylor Go!
I am a true Taylor Ewert fan and she is going to change the world for young girls who wanna race walk.
She's lifting like mad, y'all just threw her under the bus
No that’s is not a good idea peace and love, respect one and another person who is on this planet earth
Race walking is the national sport of retail shoplifters.
😂😂😂😂😂
not a good idea to call attention to yourself in that profession
Ay Southwest Ohio gang!
This girl goes to my school.
Anyone know what kind of running watch she has on 👀
Katlovesfood garmin 235
Garmin forerunner 435
It's a Mickey mouse watch...
A video with a title focused on RW, but most footage is running? Ummmmm
She is really good and her running form looks amazing but I am worried that her knees might get injured very soon when she does race walking in addition to running
I have screen captured both feet off of the ground at the beginning of the video. What up with that?
outdoorplayer watch the full video and try reading the description. you're one dumb idiot and it's obvious you never watch the video with your dumb comment.
TrackForField actually she is race walking, race wlking insanely fast. at maybe 200 steps per min a judge cant see a slight lift of both feet. the only "dumb idiot" here would be you.
@@TrackForField Yes, I did 'watch' the video. FACT both feet were off the ground while race walking. That is not allowed. Classy name calling by the way.
I agree. Both feet definitely off the ground in the very first video. .. and she is definitely race walking in the very beginning.
The rest of the video , however, is of her running.
The rules say that “one foot must be on the ground as seen by the UNAIDED eye. So no camera. All elite walkers lift slightly when they are going their fastest, it’s just so unnoticeable/inconsequential that judges don’t see it with their eyes.
Have seen her walk multiple times. She gets a lot of "air time" and would have trouble with international competition. (Those folks also "lift" but do a better job of *looking* like they're not.)
Thanks for the memory. It's great exercise. One of my favorite walkers is Australia's Jared Tallent who medaled in both the 20K (bronze) and 50K (silver) in the 2008 Olympics. He also won the 50K in 2012 and silvered in 2016.
His winning walk in 3:36:53 in 2012 can be watched at czcams.com/video/ffYYgCEKD9o/video.html The first across the line, Russian Sergey Kirdyapkin, was DQed for doping.
I'm very confused by this video. Only 5 seconds are about her "Race Walking" the rest of it is about her running. How is she "changing the game"?
HeyItsKatie!! Because she holds and has broken almost every High School walking record, and has a very good chance of making the Olympics at a very young age
Who else thinks she looks like Jessica hull
Looks airborne...(?)
I am a race walker. Are you sure we are on the same page when we talk of Racewalking? I am confused.
good show. Any women coaches??? think it's time......
race walking phenom changes the game of race walking by running. Willing to sell that joke to the Onion for the right price!!
I'm a fan of Taylor and immensely respect her achievements. My following comments are directly made about the sport of race walking and nothing else.
Race walking is arguably the only artificially created / restricted athletics sport now that there would be no advantage in say high jumping off two feet. Furthermore it is a sport where one cannot go flat out without breaking into a normal / healthy action. Each facet alone is perverse but taken together creates a sport akin to pillow racing, or perhaps motor racing with the hand brake first locked on. Walking by its very nature is not a pastime suitable for speed racing as its very definition restricts speed. Apologies if I walk the path of tautology , but at least hopefully logic appears.
Although an athletics fanatic for well over fifty years I personally take the view that any objective viewer of limited sensibility only has to take a brief glance at this sport to instantly recognise what it truly is namely a perverse parody, and hilarious in the process. I would go so far as to suggest that it brings the sport of athletics into disrepute.
Society routinely embraces with open arms many perversities - routine military aggression under the guise of patriotism; abortion under the guise of freedom; and flesh eating simply because we can. As a lover of purity within athletics I must concede that race walking is a like aboration - an ugly wart well overdue for surgical removal.
Ivan Sanders stfu prude🤬
Wow. Totally uneducated comment. RW is as technical as swimming. Try researching.
Smh you have to run to get good at race walking, why not just run? This is the only fitness-dependent sport where BY DEFINITION competitors aren't racing to their full potential. Why? I mean she's already a fantastic runner, and I suppose it's sort of a "might as well thing," but I just do not get the appeal of race walking.
You don't have to run in race walking training. Personally, I don't.
jealousharibo Interesting. It seems to be working well for Taylor, though.
@@evandempsey7613 yes, it's obviously working well for her, which is grand. Some people just can't develop the other technique when they already have mastered the first one, and forcing it may result in two poor techniques, which is not worth it.
Is javelin considered fitness dependent?
It's like in swimming where you have to do a specific stroke.
She's a good runner....so why limit yourself? Racewalking will never make sense to me. It's easy to be one of the top of you're already a good runner because the talent pool is so small. Because ITS A JOKE.
Well, race walking is a different sport thank running. Running is faster, but not any easier than being a top race walker. Think of comparing running and cycling. Cycling takes you places faster, but it’s still on par with the effort of running.
Race walking as a sport is not a joke to more people than you think. It way look easy but it's not. The rules set in place help make it very hard. Every single Olympic race walker you'll find is able to race walk faster than most people can run.
sorry m8 but because of those rules they are extremely limited. You literally have a physical limit on how fast you can go. That's why most of the records haven't been broken since the 90's
David Jennings except with cycling and running there's not a physical limit on how fast you can take your body. With racewalking there is. You can only go so fast. Most of their records are from the 90's. Running and cycling world records are set regularly.
@@jazzyjay4595 Sprinting records don't change allot either so what's your point. humans have running limit. no breaking 9sec 100m.
good for her but she needs a better coach her form is not very good
B Peek really? i actually thought her form was really good when i saw her run and that her coach is actually a pronominal coach.
How about the heptathlon? Too skinny maybe?
If you put the playback speed at 0.25 and pause around 1 second in, you can see that both feet are in the air at the same time. Aka jogging.
Also wtf am I doing watching this
she's cute .... but that's 2 years ago .... she still at it ?
her form is weird no offense
In the video at the start it is blatantly obvious that both feet are off the ground at the same time, therefore she isn’t even race walking lol
this sport is a sham and should not be part of the Olympics or IAAF World Championships. It obviously is not "walking" yet they try to justify it by saying it is judged by the naked eye. All other "sports" have gone to instant replay but not this one. Enough already.
Je suis d'accord, and indeed Barry's observations have prompted my own observations today.
I agree with you but I would change my mind if they implement a kind of instant replay like you mentioned
No one cares about race walking it’s a waste of time at meets
Splash Nick big facts
speek 4 yor very limited myopic self🤭
I loved watching it at Outdoor Nationals! It is amazing:)
Ya she is changing the game by cheating in every single race walk.
Stewie 5.6k h8r,troll much???🤥
@@mahalkita7351 did you see the fucking intro clip dumbass?
Or by being the best female high school walker in quite some time?? She doesn’t cheat. She’s the best in the nation at the high school level. When she walks on a track (at a high school meet) you can bet that she will win.
I know almost nothing about racewalking and both of her feet are off the ground constantly.
Feet=Airborne :(
This girl slow
Lol, maybe for a decent high school guy cross country runner but for a woman she is crazy fast.
maybe at sprint im faster not distance I don't know who faster in 300 meter I can sprint only 10 9 second full speed next 1 2 second later barely sprint 150 meter is hardly a sprint 200 meter I cant sprint which is 27.75 second
Did she get first? NO.
I’m just kidding dude I know she is fast,she is fast as shit.and I’m getting there I’m a 8th grade boy running a 18:30 5k
I’m trading every day building up to 60 miles a week