Cracking the Long-Jump Code

[Albert Caruana]

Found in today's Wall Street Journal (of all places):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...230248970.html

Albert Caruana
http://www.crosscountryexpress.com

[Giant Panda]

Re: Cracking the Long-Jump Code

By comparison, records in other events have crumbled like sand castles. The men's high-jump record has been broken 18 times since 1968

Er.... not the best example he might have chosen.

It helped that Beamon was jumping in the thin air of Mexico City with a slight wind at his back

Yes that might have been a slight help.

[Marlow]

Re: Cracking the Long-Jump Code

An instantaneous read-back of horizontal velocity, vertical velocity and angle of attack off the board? Yeah, I want that. Ignore hi-tech resources at your own peril. This is bio-mechanical feed-back at its best. It can't make a silk purse out a sow's ear, but it can turn an inconsistent X jumper into a consistent X+1 jumper (under the proper guidance). A certain m-monikered erstwhile poster here pooh-poohed training technology. Me? Not so much.

[Avante]

Re: Cracking the Long-Jump Code

There was some jumper out of..hmmm?...Washington/WSU? who did a somersault into the pit. Or did I dream that?

[gh]

Re: Cracking the Long-Jump Code

you obviously haven't been reading all the posts here of late!

[Tuariki]

Re: Cracking the Long-Jump Code

It wasn't a dream - nightmare maybe.