Does anyone really care about the triple jump?

7j wrote:

And apologies. I did not intend to hijack the thread and turn it into something other than a celebration of the triple jump!--just wanted to make sure that people weren't ignorant (as some, I've discovered, still are) of Edwards's change in conviction.

No need at all to apologize, I've been a huge JE fan since the 90's, but I had no idea about this.

I always though his formulas were interesting.

Hiya folks wrote:

Eldrick, you used to use this same stupid argument over on the other boards. Why do you constantly pretend to have no idea about your previous posting antics? I mean, I understand that since you got banned maybe you're not too proud of it, but everyone knows who you are and your annoying posting style doesn't exactly blend in with the crowd.

You know exactly to whom I'm referring. There aren't that many whackjobs out there trying to force the events in our sport into neat little equations.

Ricky Rzach wrote:

Pedro from NC wrote:

Track and field is said to be descended from games "war" games. One of my friends speculates that triple jump comes from people trying to get over the moat to a castle by running and jumping and then stepping on the heads of alligators in the moat

I would assume your frendo is correct. BTwayside, does your handle refer to Pedro from the attraction known as "South of the Border" in Dillon South Carolina?

Ha, no, but it is funny you ask, as I have a little wooden cutout of Pedro, that swings its arms and legs up and down when you pull a string, hanging off of my lamp and am looking at it right now! BTW, let me just take this opportunity to say that I am a huge fan of the triple jump!

Hiya folks wrote:drivel.drivel... but everyone knows who you are and your annoying posting style doesn't exactly blend in with the crowd

shmuck

"blend in with the crowd"

who exactly are the crowd ?

if you wish to lump yourself together with the minority knuckle-dragging morons around here, then that is "your crowd"

if it's scientifically-trained, open-minded,intellegentsia, then it's clearly not your crowd

You know exactly to whom I'm referring. There aren't that many whackjobs out there trying to force the events in our sport into neat little equations.

hey chump

refute it & offer better

what do you mean by "c o m"

centre of mass

ventolin^3 wrote:

Hiya folks wrote:drivel.drivel... but everyone knows who you are and your annoying posting style doesn't exactly blend in with the crowd

shmuck

"blend in with the crowd"

who exactly are the crowd ?

if you wish to lump yourself together with the minority knuckle-dragging morons around here, then that is "your crowd"

if it's scientifically-trained, open-minded,intellegentsia, then it's clearly not your crowd

You know exactly to whom I'm referring. There aren't that many whackjobs out there trying to force the events in our sport into neat little equations.

hey chump

refute it & offer better

Once again, eldrick completely misses the point of a post and fails to understand it.

My "blending in" comment was to explain that you have a very unique (and obnoxious) posting style that you brought from T&FN over to here after getting banned there.

But keep trying to obscure the facts by dancing around in circles and throwing non sequiturs out there like it's going out of style. It entertaining to watch someone fumble so.

ventolin^3 wrote:

shmuck

"blend in with the crowd"

who exactly are the crowd ?

if you wish to lump yourself together with the minority knuckle-dragging morons around here, then that is "your crowd"

if it's scientifically-trained, open-minded,intellegentsia, then it's clearly not your crowd

Settle down there buddy, I don't think anyone was saying you "blend in with the crowd" as any sort of dichotomy between "knuckle draggers" and superawesomesciencedudes like yourself. An astute reader would be pretty clear that it was a way of stating that your flippant attitude coupled with penchant for forcing equations down our throats does not exactly "blend in with the crowd" (i.e. it gives you away as obviously being eldrick since no one else does this and you mysteriously showed up on these boards right after getting banned from T&FN boards).

Hiya folks wrote:Once again, eldrick completely misses the point of a post and fails to understand it

who ?

i'm afraid your knuckle-dragging knows no bounds

learn to read stoopid

name is ventolin^3

My "blending in" comment was to explain that you have a very unique (and obnoxious) posting style that you brought from T&FN over to here after getting banned there

err...

shmuck

i've been posting here as ventolin for 3y

try again...

[quote[But keep trying to obscure the facts by dancing around in circles and throwing non sequiturs out there like it's going out of style. It entertaining to watch someone fumble so.[/quote]

moron

the "non-sequitur" was to explain justification of formula

offer some scientific refutation or shut the f*** up & stick to poking sticks into ant-hills in order to tempt out your main nutrition

ventolin^3 wrote:

Hiya folks wrote:Once again, eldrick completely misses the point of a post and fails to understand it

who ?

i'm afraid your knuckle-dragging knows no bounds

learn to read stoopid

name is ventolin^3

My "blending in" comment was to explain that you have a very unique (and obnoxious) posting style that you brought from T&FN over to here after getting banned there

err...

shmuck

i've been posting here as ventolin for 3y

try again...

[quote[But keep trying to obscure the facts by dancing around in circles and throwing non sequiturs out there like it's going out of style. It entertaining to watch someone fumble so.

moron

the "non-sequitur" was to explain justification of formula

offer some scientific refutation or shut the f*** up & stick to poking sticks into ant-hills in order to tempt out your main nutrition[/quote]

Haha, eldy, this kind of flying off the handle and overreacting is what got you banned at T&FN in the first place. Settle down.

I wouldn't bother.

He knows he can use the words moron and idiot as many times as he wants and he won't get banned here.

ventolin^3 wrote:

listen moron

i have no idea who you are referring to

as for pi, it is clear you are an idiot of the 1st order

a lj is essentially an arc of a circle of the c o m - pi

No, it isn't.

In the absence of air resistance it would be a parabola. With air resistance I'm not sure the shape admits to easy classification, but it isn't "essentially an arc of a circle" unless you believe that every curved path is "essentially an arc of a circle".

Ooooh, I just noticed something. When runners run they are in the air in the middle of their stride, right? You know what that means? They are jumping. Yeah, running is just jumping from foot to foot. Perhaps you could perform your awesome analysis and, based on your knowledge of pi, tell us where KB gets his excellent speed.

I'd also be interested in knowing the donversion factor from high jump (obviously a jump) to the 100m dash (lots of small jumps).

err...

moron

speed decays thruout the aerial phase of both disciplines

this will make it a modified ellipse which is pi dependent idiot

from flatter trajectory compared to the other guys

any other exceptionally dumb questions ??

easy moron

work your way from :

PV = LJ*( pi - 1 ) / 3

HJ = LJ / ((4*pi) - 9 )

Eldrick, you should hang out with Gerry Lindgren.

Hiya folks wrote:Haha, eldy, this kind of flying off the handle and overreacting is what got you banned at T&FN in the first place. Settle down.

my retarded neighbourhood roadsweeper

your walnut-sized cerebrum has once again over-reached itself

i have no idea who/what you are drivelling about

medical suggestion :

poke your stick into lakeside anthills

hopefully the denizens have endured enough aquacitee to provide a fractional omega-3 to grow yor walnut to consideration of conversance...

ventolin is the only extrematroll that is allowed to exist on letsrun. Kilgore, 430miler, and I love peeps were all perma-banned.

He is all that we have left here.

Brother. Talk about hijacking the thread...

ventolin^3 wrote:

i have no idea who/what you are drivelling about

For some reason this part never gets old.

Pedro from NC wrote:

ifififi wrote:

It would be interesting to know how it became an event

Track and field is said to be descended from games "war" games. One of my friends speculates that triple jump comes from people trying to get over the moat to a castle by running and jumping and then stepping on the heads of alligators in the moat

Actually, a variation of it existed in the time of ancient Greeks.

"The triple jump, or at least a variant involving three jumps one after the other, has its roots in the Ancient Greek Olympics, with records showing athletes attaining distances of more than 50 feet (15.24 m).[1]

In Irish mythology the geal-ruith (triple jump), was an event contested in the ancient Irish Tailteann Games as early as 1829 B.C.[2]

The triple jump was a part of the inaugural 1896 Olympics in Athens, although back then it consisted of two hops on the same foot and then a jump. In fact, the first modern Olympic champion, James Connolly, was a triple jumper. Early Olympics also included the standing triple jump, although this has since been removed from the Olympic program and is rarely performed in competition today. The women’s triple jump was introduced into the Atlanta Olympics in 1996." - wikipedia.org/triple_jump

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