Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

THE HOP, STEP, AND JUMP 99 The training for the hop, step, and jump will, of course, be far more arduous than that for the running, high, or long-jumps. The legs must be consistently developed, and the weight must be kept down, for every added pound of weight the athlete carries adds very appreciably tg_ the strain imposed upon the lower limbs. The athlete who proposes taking up this event is asked to study carefully the chapter on the running long-jump. As a matter of fact, he will probably do so in any case, for most "hop, step, and a jump" jumpers practise the running long-jump as well. All the advice that has been given to the long– jumper applies to the event under consideration as well. Up to and including the take-off the work is the same, and when the final leap is made, after the hop and step have been accomplished, the athlete must get into the air in the same way as does the running long-jumper, and must go through the same evolutions. Therefore the student of this subject is asked to read first the long-jumper's instructions up to and including the take-off, then to study the directions given for the carrying out of the hop and step, and finally to turn back to long-jumping, and study the methods therein described of making the leap. THE HOP It is better for the athlete to make his initial effort from the foot which he uses for the take-off in the ordinary long-jump. Having generated his impulse by the run-up, and taken off in the usual way, the jumper must be careful that he does not fling the body too high into the air,