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I guess when you have no actual ability as an athlete of a sport that you're so desperately a fan of, you resort to shaming those who are successful at the sport. Dude made a vlog and you make a whole video about how he has no charisma? Who are you?

great analysis - well done. I made sure i watched his video before i watched your vlog. It was cringeworthy - Elliot Giles is a very good contrast - his vlogs catlague a very genuine story and i finished up rooting for him - stoked when he got the mile road world record.

RIP

A well balanced take with some engaging editing and commentary = instant subscription, well done mate!

Good video, you captured many of my thoughts. Kinda in line with his Instagram persona, which doesn't seem to have any connection to who he actually is.

Why would athletes realese the sauce on how they train??? Running is different, your competitors can’t know what your doing

Likeable is a ship that sailed for Kerr and Ingebrigsten some time ago 😂. Admirable yes, likeable, no.

Doping bans should have a financial reimbursement element attached to them. There should be a presumption that through cheating you have enriched yourself. Not just in prize money and sponsorship deals but in training grants, physiotherapy services, travelling costs etc. That value should be calculated and the ban should then be for "X" years AND until that sum has been repaid. Anyone who fails to cooperate in the valuation process remain banned until they do. In practice it would be difficult to identify who precisely lost out to the cheating in order to compensate them. However, the money could go to a fund for good athletic causes not the least of which would be support for increased testing. In reality this would probably put paid to most cheats' careers without the need for lifetime bans.

Good insights in this video. I just started a half marathon training series on RUclips and this gives me some ideas on what to include and what to avoid.

The thumbnail told me everything I needed to know about the guy

As the top journalists say,”No Olympic Gold, no story”

I'll do a video on your poor choices for videos

Good video. Hope he watches it. You're right, Giles makes such interesting videos you actually look forward to seeing the next one. Really shows the life of an IAAF athlete.

what makes you think this is funded by Grand Slam Track?

Why is this a video are we seriously sitting here analyzing one unserious video posted by an athlete and winning how the video wasnt the best like it was a video game or movie we waited year for and it disapointed. Surely we have bettwr things to do with our lives.

With the amount of spotlight and attention track and field is garnering (largely due to said media personalities), its honestly FOOLISH to not capitalize on it with self promotion. Literally idiotic to sit by and just keep quiet and “run”. Theres literally magnitudes more money to be made outside of race earnings, it’s not even close. Just hire a PR team, turn up some facets of your personality, put some training up, garner some sort of damn buzz and earn what you can while the zeitgeist is here. Heck even do that shit in your home language and subtitle it, you’ll still be light years better off that’s staying quiet right now.

We'll see how many subscribers and views Kerr's channel will get after 6 months. Judging a channel based on its very first video is kinda meh.

Don't discount how much of the hate is simply because of who Kerr is. People just don't look up to that d-bag attitude.

his video really made me like Jacob Ingebrigtsen and Cole Hocker more, if that was his goal, he more than succeeded! haha

Yup Tesla truck means a blank personality

Who is Kerr? ❤

Wannabe villain, he will never be Jakob 👑

I've seen Kerr interviewed recently and that was much more interesting. Part of the problem might be this was put together by a third party just doing a job, they thought adding the cyber truck segment would be enough human interest element but that's irrelevant to most of the audience it's geared towards. In contrast athletes like Allie Ostrander and Elliot Giles film and edit their own videos and nearly always include some personal moments along with the training footage or product promotion which allows their personalities to come through and makes them more likable. Ostrander said in an interview that each of her videos has a focus/story to it whereas this is quite generic and doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know.

Could never be Jakob

I'm a big Kerr fan so I am disappointed to hear this and probably won't watch it. Shame because I really enjoy Jake Wightman's RUclips.

Treat it like this, Josh Kerr has some of the same characteristics as Prefontaine. I didn't think anything was wrong with the video. He marketed himself as himself. Don't like it don't watch. Just my opinion

too many good tips for josh to implement. u shouldn't be giving those away for free^^

The sound editing was dreadful as well! I thought there was something wrong with my iPad. (I think the dominance/cybertruck thing was a self effacing joke). As said by all - more training footage and info would be better. I think he doesn’t want to give away that he thinks he’s cracked the “how to beat ingebritsen” code and that his training is structured almost entirely around having a devastating final 300m. My real conclusion/thiughts was that he had been obliged to start creating content by the terms of his track-grand-slam contract

Totally agreed. Great athlete and down to earth, but when i saw that first clip, it was so bad. I still think the marketing or editing team could do more.

Kerr<Ingebrigtsen, I refuse to support him or Brooks.

His video is awful fair play, but that personality style is popular these days, aggressive, a bit selfish, a bit prefatory etc. He's clearly a politically minded guy.

After hearing Cole Hockers guest appearance in a podcast and how down to earth he was, watching Kerr’s video was a shock.

The editing on his video is absolutely woeful. Not to mention the audio

Kerr is very “ British”

As a fellow Scot I should really like Josh Kerr but nope, he’s fucking wankstain.

I suppose the cockiness follows from the level of performance.

I like Kerr, but my favorite runner on yt is Cole hocker and Noah Lyles

This analysis is an example of doing way too much. Kerr’s first RUclips video is good and looking forward to more. I totally overlooked the cyber truck stuff - not my thing but if that’s his thing then I’m not sure why he should hide it; definitely shouldn’t hide it because someone would take it as not “like-able.” I appreciate seeing that athletes are being treated well - having a nice dinner in a nice place. What’s wrong with showing that? Not sure I would box his statements in as “athlete talk” and if it is, then whatever - it’s just a marketing video. And there is no hard fast rule on how to use RUclips or present yourself.

It is so telling that there always is talk about Ingebrigtsen when someone talk about Kerr. It is very seldom the other way around. Now Kerr is hiding in the US the upcomming season

I started watching this vid, 1 minute in I paused and tried to watch Josh Kerr's video. I honestly couldn't finish it. My first question is, who is this video for? I am a runner and there is nothing in the video that could even remotely interest me.

The Trashcan Tesla Truck really says everything you need to know about Kerr.

It's only rivaled by Jakob Ingebrigtsen video for cringeworthiness.

I personally didn’t think his video was all that bad when I watched it…

150 lbs man buying a truck to assert dominance, yeah, no surprise

Cur seems determined to be afraid of being likable

Josh Kerr is a great athlete, and he can be proud of his 2023 world championships gold. But he got supercocky extremely quick after that victory. After beating Jakob once, he was like "I'm the best 1500m runner in the world". The score between Jakob and him at the time was 8-1 (now it's 9-3). I also think he should compete more. If you look at all the current top guys in the 1500m (the guys who are likely to make it to a OG/WC final), Kerr is the one who competes the least. His 2024 (outdoor) season was: two 800 meters, two 1500 meters, one mile. Two Diamond League races. That is fewer than most other elite runners (and by a significant margin as well)

Things need time to develop, look at most big youtubers first videos and they probably aren't as entertaining as they haven't honed their format. Doing a hit piece on someone's first ever video is laughable. You want him to open up about and show everything in his life in the first video, give it a while and see how his content develops

As someone who is a Kerr fan, it definitely painted him in a bad light. I think the whole video should have been flipped: 90% of time focused on track/training, and 10% focused on the lifestyle outside of it. Less flexing but lets get to know his personality fr

As a Kerr fan, I agree that the video doesn’t cast him in the best light. If you’re looking to truly understand him, I highly recommend his podcast Sit and Kick. While he doesn’t share as much about his private life as Jakob does, he delivers sharp insights and unfiltered truths about our sport. His wisdom is more akin to Steve Ovett-grounded, analytical, and undeniably resilient. That mental toughness and scientific approach are key reasons he’s medaled in three of the last four global championships, often competing in the most fiercely contested 1500m races. His style (explained in podcasts) may be less flashy and more raw, but it perfectly showcases his mental game. It’s a shame that this type of marketing comes from his channel and ends up as shallowl. Especially since vlogs and videos of him from BrooksBeats or FloTrack are incredibly entertaining and offer a much more engaging and authentic view of his personality.

Kerr has zero charisma. I’m not sure he can do better.