hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have a brand new breakdown for today it's gonna
be on kj gale the long jumper from jamaica he recently won the doha world championships with
a 869 long jump meter long jump and you know just really wanted to go in the not only being able to
see the side view with the front view i looked for a while to be able to finally find a front
view and recently we've been seeing a lot more people that are interested in getting some long
jump techniques so being able to get the front view as well as the side view with the 869 meter
jump i think will be super valuable for you guys so as always if you like the information go ahead
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in the video right now all right so here we got tj gale this is going to be his second jump here
and you know we don't really get to see as much of him started but you can see you know just from
from this position from the the very start really big arms and the initial kind of movement pattern
right and really being able to get the the high knees i think that that's a common thing that
we see with you know long jumpers is you really want to be able to you know get yourself going
with a long stride to start and the best way to be able to get a long stride is to be able to
you know open up with really long arms and obviously drive those knees up as he's going
closer and getting closer now he's starting to shorten up a little bit more
really gains a lot more speed as he gets closer now he starts to kind of lean back a little bit
i love this step right so this is the the step before where he's starting to kind of slow down
here okay so you can see when they land he really bends that knee a lot sits back into that hip
right so you have to have the range of motion within like that single leg squat
in order to be able to functionally achieve this right if you don't have the ankle range of motion
here you don't have the hip range of motion here you're really not going to be able to load
properly in order to do the actual long jump then here reaches out big thing that stands out to me
with these is just the ability to really reach out with that leg and still be able to lean back a ton
drives up you know a slight bend in the knee but enough to be able to but enough extension
to be able to get a very vertical action here strains out that leg leans back the whole time
then finally extends the legs has great timing there with when he extends the leg excellent jump
so we're going to go and look at i want i like to be able to look at the foot positioning here
i think this one's going to first be the front so notice when he's going and he's driving off the
front i really wanted to be able to get this view for you guys so notice how you know he's driving
off the right leg he's very straight through that right leg and he's getting a lot of extension
within that foot but also notice how this leg is coming across that up leg is kind of coming across
it's almost covering that entire down leg in terms of when he's coming off the ground so
he's really driving that leg across and then as soon as he reaches up and you can see how
wide he is with that hand too right so see how how long and wide he is with this left hand as
he's driving that that left leg through and that right arm up into the air right right arm up left
arm out to the side and then from there really reaches with that left leg extends that left leg
is able to get one cycle you know two cycles now with that right leg and then as he's going in and
reaching out with that third cycle this whole time by the way he's really leaning back right so see
how he's leaning back with his with his spine he's really trying to keep those hands nice and
high elbows nice and high and then he reaches with that that left leg full extension there
with that left leg look at that range of motion there and then is able to then extend through the
right leg as well excellent landing excellent positions a lot of things that he does super well
there in order to be able to jump as far as he did and notice here when he's when he lands with that
step this is going to be great for you guys to be able to see he lands with you know more of the
outside part of the foot down right so you can see where he's touching down initially okay and how
fast that foot immediately kind of inverts and gets into control in the control position so he
landing a little bit more on the outside part of the foot comes into you know more of that inverted
position and then has to be able to stabilize there right so now he has control of the foot
as he's transitioning through he really starts to gain control of the foot and then he's it launches
himself up and you know off the ground and the the video kind of froze there for a second but now
you can see again the cycles you just talked about that so really being able to be very stable within
your your feet is super important for the long jump being able to have a ton of range of motion
within the ankle and within the hip is super rain it's super important because you want to be able
to reach and you can see how well he gets that extension there also have enough of the of an
ability to lean back so that really goes into your core and your lower back being able to really lean
back and maintain that position while also being able to maintain that that pelvis which makes it
so it's a lot more core oriented as well so um yeah a lot of great information here again i've
been seeing a lot more people that are engaging from a long jump perspective so i want to be able
to give you guys some more information some more video to be able to actually check out and see
and hopefully this will end up benefiting you if it does go ahead and let me know in the comments
down below and if there's any other long jumpers that you would like to see i saw somebody say
britney reese so i'm going to look into her and be able to put that up as well in the next few weeks
uh but if there's anybody else you guys think that would be beneficial for you would be happy to do
that breakdown and i love being able to do this long jump and and being able to really look into
some of the mechanics of it so as always guys thanks for watching if you want to get a breakdown
of your long jump and see how you can improve you can go ahead and check out the description down
below we'd be happy to make that happen for you as always thanks for watching we'll talk to you soon