Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

CHAPTER X THE RUNNING LONG-JUMP To rise to pre-eminence in the ranks of the running long-jumpers the athlete must be endowed with the speed of the sprinter, the stamina of the miler, the strength of the hurdler, and the agility of the high– jumper. For the general training for the building up of his body the rules laid down for the high-jumper are recommended to him. Speed combined with springing powers are the chief attributes of success in this event, but the speed will not need to be so long sustained in one effort as is the case with the 100 yards runner ; but, on the other hand, a number of short, sharp dashes at any– thing ranging from twenty-five to forty -yards are incident to every competition, therefore he must have stamina to endure the strain of constant effort. Nearly every first-class sprinter is, if he only knows it, a first– class long-jumper in embryo also. Reggie Walker, for instance, could nearly always get his jump of 22 feet, if he really extended himself. It is obvious, given always that the athlete's method of jumping ,is right, that the greater the speed at which he 'approaches the take-off board, the greater will be the length-of his leap; this must be so because of the impulse 8o