Brittney Daniels

[bigweb03]

Does anyone know whatever happen to her? She was supposed to be the next great US TJer.

[mike renfro]

I was thinking of that as I looked through the Sea-Ray results. BD went to USC but was injured/inelgible and didn't compete much her frosh year, then transfered to UT. And seems to have disappeared. Maybe BillVol has some insights?

[Bruce Kritzler]

There's a whole series of hs women tj'ers who have dissapeared.

[high knees]

There's a lot of bad womens' triple jump coaches out there. There's also a lot of women in the wrong events......some hurdlers and ljers who should be tjing....if some one could teach them and train them properly........

[BCBaroo]

Yeah, there's a lot of great triple jumpers playing volleyball, soccer, and basketball, too.

Ya gotta admit, triple jump is a pretty esoteric event...even once we've got them away from th'other sports.

[Marlow]

Yeah, there's a lot of great triple jumpers playing volleyball, soccer, and basketball, too.

Ya gotta admit, triple jump is a pretty esoteric event...even once we've got them away from th'other sports.

The odd thing is that we have plenty of good HSers to cull from. Is it that easy to get to 40' on mostly natural talent by age 18 and then so hard to get them the rest of the way with good training and coaching?

[bigweb03]

You truly have to love TJ to make that next step. If you don't develop good technique you have a potential lifetime filled with back pain.

[Barto]

America kids like to eat too much.

[Marlow]

America kids like to eat too much.

??!! That pretty much applies to every other event except throws. Plus I doubt we're the only nation with kids who like to eat (and can get their hands on food). :roll:

[Taliban]

America kids like to eat too much.

??!! That pretty much applies to every other event except throws. Plus I doubt we're the only nation with kids who like to eat (and can get their hands on food). :roll:

I think he was implying American kids are fat. That was so random.

[Marlow]

I think he was implying American kids are fat. That was so random.

I've got almost 100 on my track team. Not one is obese by any standard. Most of them are downright skinny. My boy PVers, good athletes, are 115, 120, 125, and 160 (6').

[bad hammy]

Didn't someone around here propose that he could tell good women triple jump potential by the size of their butts?

[lonewolf]

Didn't someone around here propose that he could tell good women triple jump potential by the size of their butts?

I don't know what the correlation is between butt size and TJ ability but I have noted several times that, based strictly on physical conformity, the least likely looking winner frequently is broad based.

[Taliban]

I think he was implying American kids are fat. That was so random.

I've got almost 100 on my track team. Not one is obese by any standard. Most of them are downright skinny. My boy PVers, good athletes, are 115, 120, 125, and 160 (6').

Americans in general not track athletes. I don't have any overweight kids on my team either.

[eldrick]

the tj is very competitive in world terms

i have a feeling that we have seen an exodus of talent to tj from lj at a young age worlwide because it may have been deemed they weren't good enough at the time to be world class at lj - some of the galz need to go back...

i'm going by

TJ = ( Pi - 1) * LJ

( if you try long enough off one to the other without any change in speed/strength - just improving technique )

-> for "basic"

6.00m = 12.84m
6.25m = 13.38m
6.50m = 13.92m
6.75m = 14.45m
7.00m = 14.99m
7.25m = 15.52m
7.50m = 16.06m

7.75m = 16.59m
8.00m = 17.13m
8.25m = 17.66m
8.50m = 18.20m
8.75m = 18.73m
9.00m = 19.27m