Athletics of To-Day 1929

The High Jump 199 others get both legs out perfectly straight in crossing the bar and this perhaps is the better way, because it is the simpler method. The jumper lands at point F, Fig. I4, about I or 2 ft. from point K, a spot directly under the bar, and comes down on his left foot (pointed back to face his approach run), and his hands, which help to absorb the shock of landing. EF is the distance he covers in effecting clearance, approximately IO ft. from take– off to landing, and EFG the triangulation of his total effort. Make for yourself a number of charts, similar to the one I have drawn, and fill in the measurements after each jump. You will then see readily how you are shaping. u Eastern Cut-Off" Style.- We come now to the consideration of a style entirely different from the " Western Roll," but which is yet based upon the same fundamental principle of getting everything down to the level of the centre of gravity. The high jump illustrations (Plates 25, 26 and 27) together with the diagram in Fig IS (p. 200), should make it easy for the reader to follow the evolutions of the Eastern form. The approach run is made from straight in front of the bar (see Fig. 13). It can be made either in the old weeney method, when the take-off spot Gin Fig. IS will be approximately 4~ ft. in front of a spot directly under the crossbar, or on a slight curve, as in the more modern Eastern method, when G will be about 4ft. from K, the point immediat ly under the bar. The Eastern approach is to be preferred, as it brings the jumper nearer to his work. About 24ft. back from the take-off put down a check mark, and 12ft. back of that mark the point from which the approach run is to begin. Assuming that the spring is to be ma e from the left foot, the man who runs straight reach s his check mark in three strides, the man approaching on a curve will probably use four strides to reach his check mark, which is hit with the left (jumping) foot. In either case four more long springy strides should bring the left foot on to th take-off spot ; length of run and number of strides will, however, vary with th physique and condition of the individual.