There is no technical reason for them to do this, and every technical
reason for them NOT to. They seem to get away with it because their
performance is good, but in truth, they pay a penalty in lack of
consistency and perhaps speed as well.

This is just one example in a long line of examples of why jumpers and
coaches should be VERY careful of emulating sucessful jumpers - they
can learn some very bad lessons from them.

Glen

--- In highjump@yahoogroups.com, "darkchocolibra" <darkchocolibra@...>
wrote:
>
> I have always wandered....
>
> Why do some jumpers take two long bounds in the middle of their
> approach, and what does it help with.? I have seen a lot of pretty
> good jumpers do it
>