Ryan Crouser unveils a new technique that 'clicked' for the first time in competition at the Los Angeles Grand Prix, smashing his world shot put record.
has a background in engineering, a master’s degree in finance, a night-owl’s schedule and a curiosity to innovate that does not lead him to be idle for long. It is not unusual, he said, for his training partner to return for a new week of workouts, only for Crouser to giddily ask him to try a new exercise he has spent the weekend testing.
He calls it the “step-across.” Others have dubbed it the “Crouser slide.” Perhaps, based on his performance in front of 7,249 fans at UCLA’s Drake Stadium during, this is the best description: History’s best shot putter just found a way to get better. “I’m really excited because it didn’t feel polished,” Crouser said. “It felt like I had a ton of power and caught a big one but there’s still a lot more there.”
“I think 23.70 [meters] is very possible and a conservative estimate,” said Crouser, whose record throw measured 23.56 meters. “I think 24 is humanly possible, it’s just at that point you’re kind of playing with magic and hoping to catch lightning in a bottle.”
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