Geal-Ruith: the Triple Jump Thread

A good video that shows some of the greats of triple jump history can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAgLGLPtOnE

This video of course was made before Tamgho's 18.04m jump, so it is not wholly accurate. Also it criminally ignores Viktor Saneyev, the Georgian (USSR) triple jumper who won 3 consecutive Olympic Golds (and an additional Silver):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ5LkvEfkho

Here are some videos of Jonathan Edwards:

Two Interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY1jyoFJ76U

(contains WR)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjT_JwRi0oA

(WR in slow mo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLJAQBUisuQ

(Gold in Sydney)

And here is one of his wind assisted 18.43m (+2.4) (well over sixty feet). It is truly breathtaking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmUJ2GfVkKY

Here is real really long one (I don't have the patience for the whole thing at the moment) that seems to analyze his WR in great detail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwgIU4UqtMU

And finally hear is a thread on his training:

http://www.charliefrancis.com/community/showthread.php?19339-Jonathan-Edwards-weight-training

Fantastic interview on the House of Run Pod-cast with Olympic Champion, 17.96 man, Christian Taylor

http://www.houseofrun.com/episode-219-interview-with-christian-taylor/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsU9z_i6Vgw

Bump for the anniversary of Jon Edwards' triple jump record !

Let me just say, I don't know much about the triple jump, but I find it a fascinating event. I wish threads like this would get more attention. There is more to track than long distance.

I'll read this more carefully. For my GOAT vs. WR holder thread , I couldn't come up with the GOAT for triple jump.

Any thoughts on who the GOAT is?

Triple jump is my most adored event by far because you have so much different jumping styles by the elites, from little speed but huge height in the cubans, pure speed jumpers who generally have a massive jump phase like mike conley and kinda like taylor and claye now, pure rhythmic jumpers like olson and evora, good allrounders in tamgho and edwards and brutal power jumpers in idowu and kenny harrison.

That's why this event is so unique and amazing.

who will win world champs next year will be interesting i'm putting my money on taylor. off 13 steps he's been jumping 17.30ish this year and I know most of the coaches high up in the triple jump event and they are all saying off full run up next year (17-18step i guess) he'll be hitting high 17s pushing 18. Even though teddy will be back I think taylor will edge him and claye slightly If those rumours i've been hearing about taylor is true.

I really think the TJ GOAT is a battle between Jon Edwards and Viktor Sanayev. The former has a gold and a silver and the WR, but the latter has THREE golds and a silver, and I believe held the WR at one point (?). The Georgian has the edge in my opinion, that's the kind of domination we saw from Carl Lewis in the LJ

So, you made any strides in the TJ, Flo'da Boy? What's your PR?

No PR, I can barely go through the motions without tripping. I hope to work on it some in the near future though. My main goals are the 100m and the high jump but triple is great jump training (I would focus more on it but the open meets I'm aiming for dont seem to have it as an event)

Flo'da boy wrote:

No PR, I can barely go through the motions without tripping. I hope to work on it some in the near future though. My main goals are the 100m and the high jump but triple is great jump training (I would focus more on it but the open meets I'm aiming for dont seem to have it as an event)

Hey, at least you know the motions, which is definitely more than I can say.

How're your PRs in the 100/high jump? I always wish I'd tried the high jump when I ran track, mostly because I thought I had a decent vertical jump for a distance runner (obviously not great compared to a high jump specialist) and loved jumping in general. My vertical with no training was somewhere around 25". There were sprinters with higher verticals than that on the track team, but not as many as you'd think (granted, we didn't have a great team).

I don't even want to bring up my 100m PR (it's embarrassingly on another thread anyway). And, like the triple jump, I don't have a PR. I entered the event on a whim at an open meet about a month ago and had a blast even though I couldn't pass the opening height (I had the ups but my limbs were out of control). By the meet series next year I'd love to get 5'5 (maybe totally unreasonable as I have terrible speed AND ups!) and even made an ersatz high jump bar from PVC (the padding/pit at the local high school is open at times).

Your vert is probably way better than mine so Maybe you should give the jumps a shot haha

I should try the high jump, but I doubt my vert is higher. I'm sure your 100 PR isn't too bad! My best was probably around 15.

You ever do distance events at these meets, or just sprints/jumps?

I should try the high jump, but I doubt my vert is higher. I'm sure your 100 PR isn't too bad! My best was probably around 15.

You ever do distance events at these meets, or just sprints/jumps?[/quote]

I'm taking a bit of a break from distance. In part because I was having injury problems and because I figure taking a year (or more at this point) to work on speed and power will help me possibly achieve my main long term goal (one day I'd love to run a sub 2 800m, it's my 4 minute mile).

And a TJ question for anyone with knowledge: When attempting the triple jump, is it better to try and learn the motion from a stand or with a run up?

And a TJ question for anyone with knowledge: When attempting the triple jump, is it better to try and learn the motion from a stand or with a run up?[/quote]

My best advice for beginners is do it standing first and make sure your posture isn't leaning forward as that will ruin your next two phases.

Also as soon as you land a phase as quick as possible transition into your next phase so you maintain momentum that's the no1 problem with beginners they spend to long on the ground and by the jump phase they have no momentum left.

And the step phase is one I always hear about and a good friend of mine and jumps coach Dick Booth said: People who are beginners have a bad step phase because they try to go to far on the hop and don't currently have the strength to propel yourself up in transition to your step phase which is a major problem. My advice here is put a cone about 2-2.5meters away from where you land your hop and that cone is where you should land your step phase and once you get past that cone progressively move it forward slightly. If your posture is leaning forward in your hop phase that is normally a major problem for a short and bad step phase, but if posture is big and upright your step should improve.

There's a lot here to take in here so it will take a while to perfect these areas of the triple jump (some people never actually perfect these parts because it's not easy).

All that's left to say is good luck in the best track and field event the triple jump.

Flo'da boy wrote:

I should try the high jump, but I doubt my vert is higher. I'm sure your 100 PR isn't too bad! My best was probably around 15.

You ever do distance events at these meets, or just sprints/jumps?

I'm taking a bit of a break from distance. In part because I was having injury problems and because I figure taking a year (or more at this point) to work on speed and power will help me possibly achieve my main long term goal (one day I'd love to run a sub 2 800m, it's my 4 minute mile).

And a TJ question for anyone with knowledge: When attempting the triple jump, is it better to try and learn the motion from a stand or with a run up?[/quote]

A sub-2 800 would be insane. You can do it, though.

My goal is merely to break a 5-minute mile (never did it back in HS, despite a sub-11 2-mile, since I rarely ran the 1) and eventually run a sub-3 marathon.

Shout out to Christian Taylor for his 17.51m jump into a headwind and off a shot approach! Destined for great things these coming years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXxqff4oX0w

A video on Viktor Saneev, not in English but maybe someone out there understands it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFUSJce5od4

(the video title, when put through Google translate gives Victoria's Secret Saneev)

Bumping just to say that, even though the above video isn't in English (minus a few bits of Olympic coverage) it does have some beautiful footage of Saneyev training