Struggling to Improve my Triple Jump

Forgot to post a video link, here is my most recent jump: https://youtu.be/2qM01QtPlm4

Google Boo Shexnayder triple jump and look at YouTube videos or just ho to Boo's website for info. Basic hopping and bounding drills which you're probably doing and basic strength training consistently should be enough for you to worry about and do now.

You do need a knowledgeable hands on coach for such a technical event. There's no coach who can help you? If not your own high school coach then another in the area?

The Verkoshansky bounding drills are the foundation of triple jump training. But unless you have a knowledgeable coach giving you cues while you do them, you won’t necessarily get better, you’ll just keep repeating the same mistakes.

Your video shows a lot of technical issues you can improve- I would recommend 2 things for starters. First, you need to increase the range of motion (amplitude) in your hop. Your right knee should be farther behind your body as you land your hop so you can drive it forward with more force as you take off into your step. Second, you should work on getting a powerful uppercut action with your drive arm. ( The drive arm is the same as the jumping leg. In your case, you are a R, R, L, triple jumper, so we are talking about uppercutting with your right arm on your hop and step takeoffs and uppercutting with your left arm on your jump take off.)

If you want to see an athlete who keeps his knees really far back on his hop and step landings and who uppercuts with a lot of aggressiveness, check out the YouTube video of a young man named Karsten Wethington jumping 50-7 in the 2014 California State Meet.

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Google Boo Shexnayder triple jump and look at YouTube videos or just ho to Boo's website for info. Basic hopping and bounding drills which you're probably doing and basic strength training consistently should be enough for you to worry about and do now.

You do need a knowledgeable hands on coach for such a technical event. There's no coach who can help you? If not your own high school coach then another in the area?

I believe the only high school anywhere near me that has a decent jump coach is 45 minutes away.

Watch a guy on YouTube called “ Keinan Briggs “ he specializes in developmental aged jumpers and has plenty of breakdown videos geared for high school which should train different from elite collegiate athletes. Learn the basics on a basic level before you try to incorporate advanced techniques

It is perhaps unavoidable that different coaches, all trying to help, will have contrasting approaches, which can leave an athlete confused instead of clearly informed. Coach Briggs is a good coach and his drills are fine. But as a Triple Jump club coach who works with everyone from 12 year old beginners up to Olympic Trials qualifiers, I train everyone exactly the same - the Verkoshansky bounding series. While they do the drills, I watch what they are doing wrong and correct their errors, one at a time.

Since I bothered to watch your video several times in slow motion, I was able to identify specifically what you were doing wrong, so that you can work on correcting those things (while you do the Verkoshansky bounding series.) Your video shows that you already understand “the basics on a basic level” so in order to improve, you need to start correcting and improving your mechanics. I suggested the two most obvious things you should work on first.

So just to clarify, driving your arm and knee on your three takeoffs are hardly “advanced techniques.” Examples of advanced techniques would be windmilling your free arm during the hop phase, or using double arm action. KBJT is quite right that you need to be able to perform the critical movements of the triple jump correctly before you start messing around with advanced stuff.