USATF Report Refers to Event Called "hop, skip and jump "

[Marlow]

Re: USATF Report Refers to Event Called "hop, skip and jump

it's certain a phrase in common parlance: google search turns up 2.47M hits

I got 600K for "hop skip and jump"

I got 1.17M hits for "hop step and jump" which is what I heard in the early 60s.

T&FN transitiioned in 1964 to LJ/TJ from Broad Jump and Hop-Step-Jump.

[Per Andersen]

Re: USATF Report Refers to Event Called "hop, skip and jump

The German term Dreisprung (3 jumps) is best. A bit lame in Swedish & Norwegian "Tresteg" (3 steps).

[Pego]

Re: USATF Report Refers to Event Called "hop, skip and jump

The German term Dreisprung (3 jumps) is best. A bit lame in Swedish & Norwegian "Tresteg" (3 steps).

In Czech and Slovak it is "trojskok" - "triplejump". I don't believe, it has ever been called anything else.

[toyracer]

Re: USATF Report Refers to Event Called "hop, skip and jump

it's certain a phrase in common parlance: google search turns up 2.47M hits

I got 600K for "hop skip and jump"

I got 1.17M hits for "hop step and jump" which is what I heard in the early 60s.

I just tried google:

About 2,650,000 results (0.39 seconds) for hop skip and jump

About 2,620,000 results (0.36 seconds) for hop step and jump

[Marlow]

Re: USATF Report Refers to Event Called "hop, skip and jump

I just tried google:
About 2,650,000 results (0.39 seconds) for hop skip and jump
About 2,620,000 results (0.36 seconds) for hop step and jump

Put the terms in quote marks, i.e., "hop skip and jump" vs. "hope step and jump"

[mrbowie]

Re: USATF Report Refers to Event Called "hop, skip and jump

Hey, with the modern run-up, the hop, skip and jump or the hop step and jump could be very descriptive of another event...the HIGH JUMP!

[Marlow]

Re: USATF Report Refers to Event Called "hop, skip and jump

Hey, with the modern run-up, the hop, skip and jump or the hop step and jump could be very descriptive of another event...the HIGH JUMP!

I have asked numerous clinicians about this trend and gotten very vague responses - something about prepping the muscles to jump. Not really buying it, but lemming that I am, I am now teaching the bound-in-to-run approach and it seems to help. ops:

[Grasshopper]

Re: USATF Report Refers to Event Called "hop, skip and jump

Hey, with the modern run-up, the hop, skip and jump or the hop step and jump could be very descriptive of another event...the HIGH JUMP!

I have asked numerous clinicians about this trend and gotten very vague responses - something about prepping the muscles to jump. Not really buying it, but lemming that I am, I am now teaching the bound-in-to-run approach and it seems to help. ops:

It could be related to the research I remember being mentioned in the USATF Level-2 school about the benefits of "preloading" the legs with Olympic-style lifts or plyometrics before certain sprint exercises. Here's a link to a study that touches on this idea: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16503676

These results suggest that a single set of preloading exercises enhances performance during a lower-body explosive power training session