Відео

If you commit to running your corner correctly, your final steps turn over quicker allowing for a fast and smooth penultimate step.

Having jumpers speed up when they don't have the ability to control faster speeds is a big coaching problem. With more practice and time, his speed will improve in the jump, but from experience, telling someone to be faster is typically not very good advice for improving high jumping during a competition.

Not sure what you mean by the starting routines. Thanks for the praise!

He really did fly!

We are working on maintaining his speed in the curve so he doesn't loose any kinetic energy in his jump. The other main focus has been fixing the timing of his kick as that is usually what knocks off the bar, rather than a lack of height.

Not any real specific reason except probably being an older bar, so gravity has taken a toll on the stiffness. Just a guess though.

When you are running your straight away (before the curve), you want to focus on accelerating to a speed that is fast, that you can control. If you are sprinting as fast as you can at the bar and curving, odds are you do not have the control and/or technique yet to properly jump out of it and improve vertical. So focus on finding your fastest, controllable speed and maintain that through the curve. I find this the best place to start when working on optimizing a vertical jump from a run. To further elaborate, I tell my athletes to think of a car traveling 25mph on a straight away. It doesn't feel that fast after a while. If you were then asked to stay at 25mph and make a quick turn around a corner, although you didn't accelerate, the car feels faster whipping around the corner. That is the feeling you want for high jump. You don't want to accelerate around the corner because you change your vector towards the bar and will more than likely jump down the bar, rather than letting the rotational force pull you into the pit. I hope this advice helps.

Lauren is the only senior (12) out of boys and girls. The top two boys are sophomores (10). The girls are mostly juniors (11) and sophomores (10). The rest of the boys I believe are freshman (9).

Trey was 14 during this meet.

@@Froman060 14 JUMPING 6’10?!

@@jackkingsbury4955 if you watch the Meet before this, he clears 7' 1.5".

@@jackkingsbury4955fr I’m 15 barely clearing 5”10 but I mainly do long jump these days

He was 16 during this video. He is now 18, almost 19.

Just a natural tendency. I dont realize I say it until reviewing video.

Was out with an injury.

Thank you, it is just a passion that I am so lucky to get the opportunity to do. It is also easy when you have kids that want to just jump and learn. All coaches are learning so it takes time to find out how to reach an understanding of basic jump principals and how that relates to each kid. I hope that you can come across someone who inspires you as well (or potentially be that person). Thanks again and take care.

Hey Pizza Stand, thank you for your feedback. It is cool to know that Trey has some very talented individuals following his early career. As Trey was a fourteen year old and is now sixteen, he has a lot more growing to do and any emphasis on trying to minimize that natural growth is extremely inappropriate and should not be something to tell aspiring jumpers to do. It may not have been apparent in the video, but Trey has very little body fat, and even growing older, he has maintained his physique. Although power to weight is important, there is not a set standard for what a preferential jumping weight needs to be. Sotomayer was forty pounds heavier than Barshim's current weight is but Sotomayer has cleared a height Barshim has not. There is a tipping point for weight to power, but I would argue that you could not definitively state what that weight should be as stronger individuals will naturally weigh more and have more energy potential. As for improvement in his speed and form, he did not have any practice of either before this meet. In Montana, we were snowed out of all jumping practice (we only have the ability to use outdoor facilities for jumping) up to this meet and we had to use his approach mark from the previous year and we worked on everything else during the warm up period and during the meet. With his second jump, first attempt at 6' 8", he actually twisted his ankle on takeoff and it hurt to jump but he didn't want to back out as he came so far to compete and didn't want to end that way. That may have been why you didn't feel you saw the same explosiveness from his drive leg, he was just trying to get by. I don't want you or other people to feel that I am being defensive about Trey's growth, there are many things we are starting to work on that will improve his jump in the future. The reason why I responded with so much information is that I believe it hurts the high jump event when individuals state what needs to be corrected on athletes' form without any understanding of the athlete. I have seen several successful high jumpers whose weight would be called into question but performed better than anyone could have expected. If somebody wants to jump, their body type should not limit them. As for critiquing form, it is easy to pick apart little things like run faster, arch more, or drive harder, but unless you know what the athlete is working on and what they are working through, the advice could be extremely inappropriate. Trey did not use a full approach most of freshman year as he was coming back from a broken knee cap injury. I guess the point I am trying to make is the best way to help the high jump event is not to throw out uninformed advice about how an athlete can improve, but rather ask the questions why an athlete is doing what they are doing. It helps spread the knowledge and helps open a more meaningful discussion on what can be done in the future to help grow any athletes that read this and the event. Thank you for writing, and if you could share any footage you have of your jumps, I love seeing how other athletes have performed across the US/World.