hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have another new breakdown for you today
i'm really excited about doing this breakdown it's going to be a long jump breakdown on mike powell
who is the world record holder and the long jump he was able to almost jump 30 feet back in 1991
which is just absolutely crazy i'm really excited to be able to just get a little bit more of the
biomechanic side of what's happening when he's going through the jump i recently did a little bit
more of a biomechanical breakdown from a running perspective and i do that a lot with running but
something that was able to really get deep into the muscular side and just looking to get a little
bit more into the biomechanics of the actual jump here and what's going on as he's going through
the actual jump so and as always if you like the information go ahead and click the thumbs up down
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those when we can and let's go ahead and hop in the video right now all right so um of course the
video is going to be a little bit older because it was filmed in 1991 so it's a little bit more
pixelated but i still think we'll be able to get some cool information on what's going on as he's
going through you know some of the stages of his actual long jump so you can see as he's getting
close to the actual initiation and this is the step before and i really think for anybody that's
out there wanting to understand you know long jump you could really learn a lot from just the step
before look at how tall he is as he's running closer and he really stays like this basically
the whole time but then right when he gets to that that step right before he's gonna jump
and his ability to kind of load into that notice you know he's everything's very long very open and
then now he goes and really sinks down he flexes in the thoracic spine right he really goes through
a lot more knee flexion okay he also is able to bend a lot more in that ankle gets a little bit
more dorsiflexion is able to let that knee almost go up over that toe or at least is even with that
toe i know we don't have the best angle right here and then almost more importantly you can
see him really sit back into that hip almost like he's trying to do like a single leg squat you know
he's sitting back here where before he's running very upright not letting his hip go back at all
and then right before he goes into the actual jump notice how he sinks down into it and he sinks down
by bending the knee and sitting back in that in that hip right because you don't want to end up
just allowing that knee to come forward and get your to the knee to go into too much knee flexion
and lose the ability to really load that hip so it's very important to be able to understand that
when you're bending that knee you also want to be able to sit back in that hip to make sure that
you're loading the hamstrings you're loading some of the muscles in you know the hip flexors you're
loading some of the muscles in the back and lower back and the core the adductors all those muscles
are getting loaded properly as you go and and it's rarely important here i know that there's people
that talk about being able to land with this foot right underneath the hip i've yet to see
really a great long jumper that lands with their foot right underneath the hip everybody's going to
be a little bit more in a flexed position at that initial landing phase where that foot's touching
the ground and you know the leg is basically as straight as you could possibly get it and you can
also see where his head was facing straight and then he really arched back look at how his chin
ended up facing straight up in the air and then really got a lot of extension in that lumbar spine
as he's about to go through that takeoff and when you see him going through that takeoff
it really matters a lot on how much you're able to extend fully through that that calf and and uh
ankle joint right and foot joint and toe joint so for anybody that's really trying to get better
from a long jump perspective i'd say you definitely want to do some exercises where
you're on you know one foot and you're working on your ability to get full extension within the calf
um you know we can we can add some exercises for you right here that will help you in working on
that and and making sure that you're able to yeah maximize that extension because it is a lot about
the plyometrics a lot about the strength you can't do this without having a strong core a you know
strong glute strong lower back all those muscles need to be very very strong and more importantly
though you're also not going to be able to do this if you don't have the range of motion to
be able to push off within that toe and get the range of the right range of motion within that
ankle so it's going to be you know two things that will go off together in order to really maximize
your ability of doing this and being able to have a great long jump right beca being able to really
get yourself to get full extension through all the extensor muscles right that's what's amazing about
the long jump it's such an activation of so many muscles in the back of your uh body and being able
to really hold on to that as long as you can't even as he's in the air he's trying to really you
know when he jumps he maintains a lot of extension even as he's going and floating through the air
where he's leaning back leaning back leaning back and yeah he ends up going into a little bit of a
flexion there within his legs but you know you can see his back is trying to maintain extension his
whole body weight the center of mass is definitely trying to go that way right um as he's floating
forward and he just got so much momentum with that push-off that he's allowing his body to be
able to kind of fall back as he's going through the actual long jump and then really has a lot of
range of motion to be able to reach up and get his toes as high as he's able to in order to complete
the landing so i just wanted to give you guys a little bit more information about the long jump i
think the last breakdown i've seen a lot of people that have liked the breakdown and so i wanted to
give you guys another one give you a little bit more information my knowledge is always improving
and i wanted to really put a big focus on the ability to get that full extension within the
ankle and the importance of being able to do that in order to maximize your lug jump all right as
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