TOP 4 TYPES OF JUMPING EVENTS.

Top 4 ways of jumping events

• 1.LONG JUMP

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The technique of long jumping consists of a high knee-lift of the alternate leg on take-off leading to a running stride in the air. The trailing let is pulled forward to join its pair in forwarding extension in the downward trajectory. 

Competitors are judged according to the best of six trials, measured from the further edge of the take-off, a wooden board sunk level with the approach runway, and the sandpit, which forms the landing area. The rearmost imprint left by the jumper on landing is the ma to which measurement is made.

 A jump is declared foul if the jumper’s foot crosses the further edge of the take-off board. The Long Jump comprises the following four phases: 

1.approach run-up

2.Takeoff

3.Flight through the air

4.Landing

2.TRIPLE JUMP

The origins of the triple jump, or hop, step, and jump as it used to be called are 

Obscure, but the sports may owe something to the game of hopscotch which dates back at least 150 years. The rules of the triple jump are basically those for the LONG JUMP. 

In the first phase of the triple jump, the jumper lands on the takeoff foot; in the second phase, he lands on the alternate foot and springs from the same foot for his final jump. The distance jumped is measured from the rearmost final.

 Landing mark to the foremost edge of the take-off board. The technique of the first and third phases of the triple jump corresponds to that for the long jump, the best distances being achieved only by effective dovetailing of the three jumps into a continuous sequence. 

The triple jump, which probably puts more stress on an athlete's body than any other field event, comprises 4 phases: approach phase, hop phase, step phase, and the jump phase

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3.HIGH JUMP

 There have been four main styles: the scissors, the eastern cut-off, the western roll, and the ‘straddle.’ 

The first three are virtually obsolete. In the straddle style of jumping, the athlete takes off from the foot nearest to the bar and swings his other foot up and over the bar, crossing the bar stomach downwards in a draped position.

 At the 1968 Olympics, FOSBURY won a gold medal with his head-first, face-upwards technique, known as the ‘Fosbury flop, and this method was to supersede the straddle as the most popular high-jump technique for men and women. 

The high jump comprises four phases: approach, take off, flight and landing. 

4.POLE VAULT 

Pole vaulting is a jumping contest for height, competitors using a pole to lever their bodies over a raised bar according to a fixed progression. Vaulters 

failing to clear each height within three attempts is eliminated, and the winner is the athlete who clears the greatest height. 

An approach run of not less than about 120 ft. (36m) is used, the vaulter holding the pole almost parallel with the ground. The pole is planted in the box, the athlete's impetus causing both the flex and lift, levering this body from the ground.

 He hangs from the pole until he feels first, upwards, simultaneously turning about the pole so that he can cross the bar face downwards. As he jack-knifes over the bar, he pushes the pole away from him and rotates backward to land on his back.