LONG JUMP ARM ACTION - FAULTS & FIXES

In this video I talk about how the arms are a vital part of the long jump flight technique and also look at a young jumper transitioning from the stride jump to the hitch. The latter has a focus on the arm rotations to maintain the connection with the theme of the video. I’ll focus more on the transition from the stride to the hitch in another video. The first section of the video after the intro focusses on the shoulder shrug technique which can be used at take-off before rotating the arms for a hitch-kick. The idea is to increase vertical velocity. The second part of the video focusses on queuing the arm action and how the length and positions of the rotations can affect the travel of the legs. This theme continues into the third part of the video which focusses on the stride to hitch transition. The first two parts of the video are taken from my Coach-Athlete member videos. They are from the most recent (at the time of this video going live) - numbers 33 & 34). Both focus on how to