Winner not much over 27'.
Eaton's jump from the Trials would have got him silver.
Why is the LJ in decline?
Plenty of past greats (Beamon, Powell, Myricks, Conley) were not great sprinters so I'm not sure the talent has gone elsewhere.
Winner not much over 27'.
Eaton's jump from the Trials would have got him silver.
Why is the LJ in decline?
Plenty of past greats (Beamon, Powell, Myricks, Conley) were not great sprinters so I'm not sure the talent has gone elsewhere.
I miss the Carl Lewis and Mike Powell days.
Ghost of LJ'ers past wrote:
Winner not much over 27'.
Eaton's jump from the Trials would have got him silver.
Why is the LJ in decline?
Plenty of past greats (Beamon, Powell, Myricks, Conley) were not great sprinters so I'm not sure the talent has gone elsewhere.
The talent has gone to the NBA and the NFL, where they can make some serious money. I bet Calvin Johnson could jump 27 feet with 2 months worth of training.
Davy Davy wrote:
Ghost of LJ'ers past wrote:Winner not much over 27'.
Eaton's jump from the Trials would have got him silver.
Why is the LJ in decline?
Plenty of past greats (Beamon, Powell, Myricks, Conley) were not great sprinters so I'm not sure the talent has gone elsewhere.
The talent has gone to the NBA and the NFL, where they can make some serious money. I bet Calvin Johnson could jump 27 feet with 2 months worth of training.
I knew someone would be quick to jump on this excuse; however, it does nothing to explain why other other nations who used to produce some really solid jumpers (Russia, Cuba, etc) have no LJ studs either.
Wondered this too. Even in youth track, LJ records seem to often be among the older ones. Some still from the 70s in our local league.
They are teaching a bunch of new theories in jumps that really suck. If there was ever a time to go old school, it is now for our jumpers. Pretty much going to a USATF coaching clinic and doing the exact opposite of everything they say is step 1 to being one of the best jumps coaches in the country.
Yes, this is such a great idea in view of the recent successes of Jesse Williams, Christian Taylor, Will Claye, not to mention women like Brittany Reese, Janay DeLoach, and Chaunte Lowe!The only clear and consistent weak spot in US Jumps is women's TJ. That's is where real work needs to be done. But the success of Taylor and Claye shows that TJers here can be developed.
Old School Rules wrote:
They are teaching a bunch of new theories in jumps that really suck. If there was ever a time to go old school, it is now for our jumpers. Pretty much going to a USATF coaching clinic and doing the exact opposite of everything they say is step 1 to being one of the best jumps coaches in the country.
Is this when we start the "scoreboard" chant?
TJ wrote:
Yes, this is such a great idea in view of the recent successes of Jesse Williams, Christian Taylor, Will Claye, not to mention women like Brittany Reese, Janay DeLoach, and Chaunte Lowe!
The only clear and consistent weak spot in US Jumps is women's TJ. That's is where real work needs to be done. But the success of Taylor and Claye shows that TJers here can be developed.
THEY ARE NOT IN THE NBA.
Some may be in football with the other sprinters. But a lot has to do with coaches not wanting to risk injury of their best sprinters. Or the top sprinters just not wanting to work hard enough.
The top long is 99% speed. And I see a lot of top long jumpers training more on the jumping aspect of the long jump and less of the speed. If you have a 50 inch vertical but can not go over 11m/s on the runway you will not jump 28 feet.
Need more Carl Lewis'
It was a "tactical" long jump competition.
where was Makusha Ngonidzashe
What's this "feet" you speak of? Was the pit not marked off in nice, decimal-friendly meters?
Was watching the bbc coverage w intervie.w w Brit that won and he thanked his coach Dan Pfaff...the guy gets it done regardless of what country his athletes are from. Heard him at the level 2 in baton rouge in 94 or 95 and could tell he was way ahead of the field w stuff has talking about
I'd rather listen to Huntington.
dude can coach wrote:
Was watching the bbc coverage w intervie.w w Brit that won and he thanked his coach Dan Pfaff...the guy gets it done regardless of what country his athletes are from. Heard him at the level 2 in baton rouge in 94 or 95 and could tell he was way ahead of the field w stuff has talking about
I talked with a couple of people who were in the stadium today. They said the jumping conditions were not that great. headwind a lot of the time, temperature in the High 50's low 60's and the air was very weird. They said it was very weird inside the stadium, very dead air for the LJ. I agree, it was not the best distance covered for a LJ in the Olympics, but they cannot all be gems can they?
Makusha Ngonidzashe wrote:
where was Makusha Ngonidzashe
injured I think
It runs in cycles. There is a nice young crop of talent all over the world. Once they get into the groove they will start hitting big marks. Guys like Phillips, Saladino were hurt.
Claye and Goodwin are just 21 or 22.
TJ was in the same spot in the early to mid 2000s until the arrival of Tamgho, Claye and Taylor.
Also the guys on your list Beamon, Powell, Myricks, Conley, were really good.
Telez and Lewis need to start The Houston Project to restore glory to the LJ. Nike can build a house that forces down extra gravity which will make them stronger while they sleep and rest so it will be easier to jump at regular gravity. The Nike HyperGravity House!
Why was the men's long jump left off the prediction contest?
Rutherford just proved to be the greatest long jumper on the planet! It is what it is. Conditions play a lot into how long people are going to be jumping on the day...I doubt Saladino or Phillips would have went over 8.30. I could see maybe a Powell doing 8.40+, but he's only in history books now.
old coach man wrote:
It runs in cycles. There is a nice young crop of talent all over the world. Once they get into the groove they will start hitting big marks. Guys like Phillips, Saladino were hurt.
Claye and Goodwin are just 21 or 22.
TJ was in the same spot in the early to mid 2000s until the arrival of Tamgho, Claye and Taylor.
Also the guys on your list Beamon, Powell, Myricks, Conley, were really good.