Track/Strength Coach wrote:
To offer advice like "hold your jump" is uninformed and not very helpful.
Track/Strength Coach, I THINK we are essentially attempting to say the thing. I'm being more specific and technical with my word choice and I think You are being more general.
If you are saying, in general, that from phase to phase one should not try to "hold" one's time in the air, I would agree to the extent that if one did so they would also lose energy to the point that they could not effectively establish the next phase of the event. However, I was talking about the "JUMP" phase specifically. To say don't hold your JUMP is silly. I assume you weren't indicating that. What I assume you were trying to convey is not to float too long in any part of the Hop Phase or the Step Phase because it is counterproductive after a certain point...if that is what you are saying, I agree. However, what I read was "Don't listen to people who say 'hold your jump'." If we are talking about the Jump Phase of the event, that is exactly when you want to 'hold the jump' by contracting all the core muscles required to keep the feet in the air as long as possible before hitting the sand...hopefully being completely out of momentum at that point.
Like I said, I think we are essentially saying the same thing. I suspect you were being a bit more general. NO?