Originally posted by TJ2K
what about bounding with a runup prior…
TJ2K:
Any comments on this activity?
Very stressful on the body, so you better be well conditioning before doing this. Also, a significant technical component must be present before doing this type of activity. Best to be left to triple jumpers.
Damn, that’s explosive. Who is that, TMSSF?
that is disgusting explosive!
nice.
im starting to wonder if i need more plyos in my program…
…but after sifting through some of david w’s posts in the past week, maybe i need more OLs…
Originally posted by prophet
Damn, that’s explosive. Who is that, TMSSF?
Brian Wellman of Bermuda during the 2000 HASTC S&P Series in Arizona. He was doing these 2 hours prior to a twilight competition.
Looking at the “warmup”, you can tell that Brian was a hop-dominated TJ’er.
I remember watching Brian compete at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships held in Toronto in 1993. During warm-up jumps, he broke the runway. I think he actually put a hole in it. They had to pull that section of runway out and replace it.
It was a great competition won by a French guy at about 17.55m. Never heard of him again after that competition. Johnathan Edwards also competed at that meet.
Originally posted by NumberTwo
I remember watching Brian compete at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships held in Toronto in 1993. During warm-up jumps, he broke the runway. I think he actually put a hole in it. They had to pull that section of runway out and replace it…
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in the hop-step region. We observed some his 5 step runups for a specific hop-step work session during a practice day. We literally cringed from the booms he was generating on the runway!
You are right in your prior statement. A true technical component must be developed in concert with strength & power.
I remember watching B. Wellman compete in the TJ at the 89 CA JC State Championships. B/c I was a competitor in another event (The LJ) I was able to watch him from a few feet away. The raw power he displayed was amazing (HULK like). BOOM! BOOM! is right. He took 2nd that day b/c he was a good 18" behind the board on all good attempts. He fouled/scratched on one jump by a cent. It happened to be measured at just over 56’ Everyone watching him that day knew that they would hear about this cat again.
The guy who won it that yr w/ a jump of 54’ 4" was a lot less quiet when he hit the ground.
On the standing triple jump do you explode off of one leg three times, then the other three times? It looks like that’s what he’s doing.
looks pretty good… the foot lands in the “right spot”. It’s and the quad are proerly prepared/tensed before groud contact. swinging segements are used appropiately. posture is pretty good.
someone said that this exercise is stresfull and requires lots of conditioning… i understand what you mean, but it’s not true. you can simply not go as far or as high and still do the exercise. i say this not to pick on you but to point out that it’s not exercise in itself that’s stressfull, but the nature in which it is performed. you can put cones 1-2m apart and it becomes very safe and might be a great teahcing environment.
I remember seeing him compete a few years ago. He’s a freak! Never have I seen such explosion. All of the other jumpers got up to watch him jump and it was and Arkansas crew, so you know they were legit also.
TMSSF
have you got that clip running a normal speed?
Originally posted by ktolbert
someone said that this exercise is stresfull and requires lots of conditioning… i understand what you mean, but it’s not true. you can simply not go as far or as high and still do the exercise. i say this not to pick on you but to point out that it’s not exercise in itself that’s stressfull, but the nature in which it is performed. you can put cones 1-2m apart and it becomes very safe and might be a great teahcing environment.
Of course, I wasn’t referring specifically to the act of single leg hops, but performing such an activity at the amplitude and range of Wellman certainly is stressful (and requires a certain degree of background training and progressive conditioning… am I wrong here?). We were talking about the clip above weren’t we???
Being a former triple jumper, I do question the validity of high volumes of single leg hops over the longer than 3 to 5 hops. I’d rather prescribe combination hop-bound drills over relatively longer distances, as I used to see Victor Sanyeev do in my old training tapes. I see some athletes doing single leg hops over 30m or more and cringe, as their hips slowly descend to the ground.
As Charlie has said previously, alternate leg bounding will give you a similar training effect without the same risk. I have known many a triple jumper that could perform drills competently (i.e. single leg hops at less than full approach run speed) and then crash and burn once they had a full run up behind it in their jump.
Anyone have any idea what the incidence of injury was for Wellman? I do know that his results have been drastically inconsistent (ie. jumping 17.30+ one year and then barely jumping around 16m the next).
#2,
I do remember seeing him at the 89 State Meet with one leg heavily wrapped up. Also, his take-offs were so far off I couldn’t believe it. One approach was two feet of the board, than a scratch, than 1 1/2 feet off the board, etc…Maybe it was due to an injury, I don’t know but I was pulling for him to hit the board right on so I could see a 57’ TJ.