lindenwood high jumper

Yannick, Kajsa's coach says he "half sits" over the bar, but believes he can do 2.30 meters or higher and possibly take a medal in China in 2008 or London 2012.

I mean Yannick Tregaro, K. Bergqvist's and Emma Green's coach.

There is a picture (not video) of the jumps at trackshark.com, and he defintely is not wearing Nike Shox.....he is wearing Nike's, but not Shox

scratch that.....the pictures are on the track and field news forums

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=17285

Nike Air Zoom Shift, I think.

redmeansdead wrote:

When I started doing high jump my sophomore year of high school my PR progression went like this:

Sophomore: 5'0"

Junior: 5'8"

Senior: 6'2"

Freshman(College): 6'6"

Sophomore: 6'8"

That's over a foot and a half of improvement in 5 years. Proper training, technique, and approach have something to do with being a decent high jumper. I think if this guy practiced for 2-3 years he could get in the upper 7's easily. Who knows...maybe take a stab at 8?

those years are where u should expect to see improvementy just because of growth and ur becoming a man.... i'd argue that ur vast improvement is a combination of growth and drills. high jump probably has more to do with natural ability then sprinting even.

also, to the guy who said his form was bad. maybe what u've been taught is bad form. Maybe this guy is the new flosbury and his "bad" form (which cleared 7.3-25) on his first attempt, might be a little more effiecient and productive than u think.

hey guys...i dont care what shoes he was was or how bad his form was, but the dude jumped freaken high. there are too many freaken criticts here that can never give a compliment on natural talken. the jumper is a good one and from what it looks like his jump was 22nd in the world for this year. and yes mr. ass hole i know its only january, but still he did good.

ps - good job mr. jumpman...keep on jumpin and win yourself a national championship

It's apparent that that many on these boards have no idea what in the hell they're talking about with regards to high jump/

I think he has surprisingly good form for a beginner. He certainly has room to improve though.

Anyone know how tall that guy is? I'm curious how much over his height he cleared. My best was 6" over my height at the time I used to high jump.

That was phenomenal! Man, you critics need to get over yourselves, the guy wasn't even officially competing.

That was freakin' high and it was phenomenal, shoes or no shoes, form or no form. A quick glance at the lists at IAAF (not much to compete with this early in the year admitedly) and he would make it had the meet and conditions been sanctioned. That doesn't suck.

fly wrote:

I think he has surprisingly good form for a beginner. He certainly has room to improve though.

Anyone know how tall that guy is? I'm curious how much over his height he cleared. My best was 6" over my height at the time I used to high jump.

I've read 6'2'' or 6'3''

I think he was officially competing in the meet as his name was in the results. However, why would a university meet not count toward world lists? I am ignorant to the process a meet has to follow in order to meet IAAF guidlines.

Also, with this guy's natural talent, could he be a good long jumper too? I don't know jack about field events... but it seems that natural jumping ability could carry over into other events.

college meets should count...hell, even high school meets should count as. as long as they are performing well enough to make the world's list, they should be on it.

also, he is about 6 ft 3-4in. i saw him training today with his friend carlos and carlos is about 6ft 6-7in and is noticibly taller than donald.