By Ed Jacoby

The world's best song and box coaches. The world's most sensible song and box source.

Long bounce, triple bounce, excessive bounce, and pole vault. From recommendations and coaching to procedure and psychological instruction, Winning Jumps and Pole Vault is the one publication that covers all of it.

Renowned trainer Ed Jacoby and the all-star line-up of Cliff Rovelto, Tom and Kyle Tellez, Irving “Boo” Schexnayder, Greg Hull, Will Freeman, and Keith Henschen proportion the secrets and techniques and methods that experience produced sixty two NCAA champions, 15 Olympic gold medalists, and diverse different U.S. and international medalists and champions.

Every section of each event—from method of takeoff to landing—is defined to exhibit right process. how to realize and proper universal technical flaws and depend on over 25 event–specific drills to ideal process.

With preevent education, conditioning courses, and leap and vault innovations, Winning Jumps and Pole Vault is the single source song and box coaches and athletes cannot come up with the money for to be with out.

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This prevents forward rotation, allows the arms and hands to move back behind the hips (thus shifting the center of mass back on the parabola), and gives the athlete a feeling of sliding the hips forward toward the feet. Slide to Feet Purpose To allow for continued forward movement of the body. Performance This is an advanced version of the previous drill. The athlete uses a faster running speed and jumps directly into the long-jump pit. The goal is to not allow anything but the feet to contact the sand.

This progression of body angles should result from the legs powerfully and repeatedly pushing the hips upward into a position of good posture. With each step, the direction of force application becomes less horizontal and more vertical. It is critical that the coach understand the value of the drive phase as a momentum development tool. Many faults at takeoff result because the jumper senses inadequate momentum; these can be traced to failure to develop momentum during the drive phase. The continuation phase follows the drive phase.

Alignment is important as well. The head should remain aligned in a neutral position with respect to the spine, and forward and backward lean should be avoided. 48 Winning Jumps and Pole Vault Alignment of the pelvis is the most critical element of posture in bounding. As mentioned previously, the pelvis should be aligned in a neutral position with respect to the spine. In triple jumping, the pelvis acts as the rudder of the body, directly determining the ability to create flight in each phase.

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