Freshman Triple Jumpers

[soul126@aol.com]

this past year there has been many good perfromances by young kids in triple jump but i have some trouble with my last phase and i would like to no from either someone who started younger and went through this or who is young right now and going through this.... my pr for triple right now is only 37 2 and im a freshman which idk is good or not

[SharonHurdler]

im a freshman at sharon high school
a 37 2 is a good jump and realy good for a freshman. It could use some work tho. It's a great start. Try on making you hop skip jump longer by spending the same amount a time in the air on each one. make shur that your opisit leg is always pumpin. trust me it works! i jump a 39 4. if you have any more ?'s it's no problem.

[vinsanity13]

when i was a freshmen, my pr was like 36 half way thru the season until i came to a meet and went from the wrong board and got 40 even. Most triple jumpers tend to go farther when they have to reach to make a certain mark such as the runway and the pit. So im guessing if u go from the board such as 38 and u r a 38 6 jumper, u are gonna reach for the extra distance, and jus work on hip flexors

[Run-n-Jump]

make shur that your opisit leg is always pumpin.

how would you go about pumping the opposite leg during the skip phase

[aidan]

how would you go about pumping the opposite leg during the skip phase


if you take your hop and skip off ur left leg heres how..


first phase, you cycle through.. we've been through that.

Second phase, when your left foot hits the ground, you have to paw the groud to get back up in the air with minimal momentum lost... now heres the important part about the skip:

DRIVE YOUR RIGHT KNEE UP IN THE AIR AT TAKE OFF... up and out, specifically.. you still want to be pretty low to the ground, so drive the knee up and foward, pretty much as hard as you can...

now, once you are in the air during the skip, EXTEND the right leg out for maximum distance, and then paw the ground again upon landing... this time driving your left knee/leg straight up as if its a long jump, to get max hang time on the jump phase!


hope this helped

[6789123]

if you take your hop and skip off ur left leg heres how..


first phase, you cycle through.. we've been through that.

Second phase, when your left foot hits the ground, you have to paw the groud to get back up in the air with minimal momentum lost... now heres the important part about the skip:

DRIVE YOUR RIGHT KNEE UP IN THE AIR AT TAKE OFF... up and out, specifically.. you still want to be pretty low to the ground, so drive the knee up and foward, pretty much as hard as you can...

now, once you are in the air during the skip, EXTEND the right leg out for maximum distance, and then paw the ground again upon landing... this time driving your left knee/leg straight up as if its a long jump, to get max hang time on the jump phase!


hope this helped

thats what exactly my coach told me and my teammates

[SpeedDemon977]

I will be a Freshman at Kentlake High School next year right now I am training with the Coach at Curtis High School in Tacoma he coached Moreno Zapada and Sarah Burns so I hope to be goin just around 45 feet by my first High School track season.

[proud2beslow]

39'4" with no training whatsoever, and horrible technique.

Too bad I have to do NJROTC at my new school, maybe I can stick in a semester of track and field..o well.

I was hoping to go about 45 and do sum serious training.

[Ninja]

38'6" without much training. As it turns out, practicing jumps lets you benefit a lot more than i realized. By mid-winter season i was ready to break 19, but i started training for hurdles and ended up gettin no more then 17'6" for the rest of the season.

For all of you new freshman coming into the high school scene take it from me. If you really want to be good at one event, practice that one event, don't work on in=t only once or twice a week in between other workouts. I'm basically the filler boy for my team. That is to say, i do all the jumps, hurdles and mid-distance events, every meet. I'm good at them all, but im not amazing at any one of them. Its really hard to accel at any one event. So only venture into other events if you're ready for the challenge.

[aidan]

38'6" without much training. As it turns out, practicing jumps lets you benefit a lot more than i realized. By mid-winter season i was ready to break 19, but i started training for hurdles and ended up gettin no more then 17'6" for the rest of the season.

For all of you new freshman coming into the high school scene take it from me. If you really want to be good at one event, practice that one event, don't work on in=t only once or twice a week in between other workouts. I'm basically the filler boy for my team. That is to say, i do all the jumps, hurdles and mid-distance events, every meet. I'm good at them all, but im not amazing at any one of them. Its really hard to accel at any one event. So only venture into other events if you're ready for the challenge.



This is coming from a senior.. TRY EVERY EVENT WHEN YOU ARE "YOUNG".. you never know if you are good at one until you are try. I'm only 5'10" (not to mention very white), and i look nothing like a triple jumper.. yet it has become my best event by far. I have done basically every event in track and field, and the triple jump is one of the last i tried. You have plenty of time to specialize (4 years of high school and then another 4 in college even).... Specializing so early is a mistake.. there are no 2 ways about it

[Ninja]

This is coming from a senior.. TRY EVERY EVENT WHEN YOU ARE "YOUNG".. you never know if you are good at one until you are try. I'm only 5'10" (not to mention very white), and i look nothing like a triple jumper.. yet it has become my best event by far. I have done basically every event in track and field, and the triple jump is one of the last i tried. You have plenty of time to specialize (4 years of high school and then another 4 in college even).... Specializing so early is a mistake.. there are no 2 ways about it

My bad, i didn't mean to say it like that. You're completely right about trying out events. What I meant is talking about events that you're well into, that you may be second or third best on you team. Im not talking about trying out events, or doing events that you're great at.