Standing Long Jump

[LeeD]

Darn good, and you can give yourself another 3" + for carpet compared to concrete.
Those stats were for athletes in their prime.
My prime was from 1963-1966, when I got my first of 3 leg operations requiring pins, plates, wires, and screws. The pins often seem to swell and back out a little on pre rain cloudy days, while the screws are fine and seem to stay in place.

 

[jmnk]

JMNK, do you want to hit some next week? I live in SanPablo, it's gonna rain pretty much Wed thru Sun.
Or, we're hoping the rain will hold until the afternoon on Wed., and we're going to be at SanPabloPark.
Hope you can drop by.

well, thanks for the offer. It's kind of a long commute for me, if I were to leave right now I would not make it by Wednesday Maybe when I retire and move to warmer places....
anyway, no hard feelings, it's all for fun...

 

[BMC9670]

Darn good, and you can give yourself another 3" + for carpet compared to concrete.

Huh? Show you're math, please.

 

[LeeD]

It's cool....
I was going to post and ask you about your experiences there with the local crew of Craig, Henry, LeftyJohn, the other lefty John, Ming, Roger, Charlie, Amy, Dave, Peter, Larry, Gary, Marty, and a few other's I forgot due to my old age.
All were pickup doubles guys from around 11AM thru 3PM.

 

[Sumo]

Huh? Show you're math, please.

Easy dude! Don't go taking my 3" away from me.

 

[WildVolley]

Just did this on the living room carpet.....6'9".....not good, not terrible.

Not bad. That's better than I did on carpet on my first jump.

Outdoors I went farther, partly because there was less fear of trying to stick the landing.

 

[LeeD]

More solid push off when on cement.
Carpet gives, since there's an underlayer, and it's soft. Soft landings would be nice, my knees still hurt from playing tennis 6 hours ago.
Math? I told you, I"m horrid in math.
Ever try jumping in soft sand? You go nowhere. Well, carpet is between soft sand and cement.
YOU do the math.

 

[jmnk]

It's cool....
I was going to post and ask you about your experiences there with the local crew of Craig, Henry, LeftyJohn, the other lefty John, Ming, Roger, Charlie, Amy, Dave, Peter, Larry, Gary, Marty, and a few other's I forgot due to my old age.
All were pickup doubles guys from around 11AM thru 3PM.

Ask who? Me? I've never been to San Francisco Rose Garden courts. Or any other San Francisco courts for that matter. I have no idea who these guys are. (and I have no idea who is the dude in the video i took the screenshots from. if you are interested this is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEinquAEMBA

 

[LeeD]

The reach of the internet.
If you DID go to RoseGarden, and ask about LeeD's serve, they would, EVERY single one of them, say I have the biggest serve of all those guys.
True, most are 4.0's, one or two leaque 3.5's, Amy was a former NNE, NorCal A women's, so none of them are very good.
They are the local pickup crew for 3.5-4.0 level doubles. Craig can easily sub in at 5.0 doubles.

 

[r2473]

Easy dude! Don't go taking my 3" away from me.

Are you Asian?

 

[LeeD]

S U M O.... What do YOU think?

 

[Sumo]

Are you Asian?

Not Asian, but who couldn't use an extra couple inches.......on their long jump of course.

 

[Sumo]

S U M O.... What do YOU think?

About what?

 

[LeeD]

Why the moniker S U M O?
At my age, I could use a couple of inches most everywhere.
Except, my beard and nails seems to grow just like when I was young.

 

[BMC9670]

Darn good, and you can give yourself another 3" + for carpet compared to concrete.

Huh? Show you're math, please.

More solid push off when on cement.
Carpet gives, since there's an underlayer, and it's soft. Soft landings would be nice, my knees still hurt from playing tennis 6 hours ago.
Math? I told you, I"m horrid in math.

Soooo... let's just call it 3". Sure, OK.

Hey Alves, add this "calculation" to the LeeDtric System conversion charts.

 

[LeeD]

Another Negative Nellie here?
Always bashing, nothing constructive.
What would YOU say the distance added should be, for converting from carpet to cement?

 

[BMC9670]

Another Negative Nellie here?
Always bashing, nothing constructive.
What would YOU say the distance added should be, for converting from carpet to cement?

Negligible.

 

[LeeD]

Huge ..
Cement doesn't give at all, so your push off is stronger.
Carpet is always two layered, and depending on age, might not offer any cushion, or springback, and might actually give a little, like sand or soft dirt.
Landings are nice on carpet, so you can go for it, except...high knapp can grab your shoes slightly earlier, and landing marks might not show where you actually landed, as the top of the knapp can go back into place, while the body stays compressed.
Try running on soft sand.
Try running on cement.
Which is faster?

 

[BMC9670]

You're comparing the difference in cement and soft sand to cement and carpet? Really? Either way, you just pull numbers out of the air.

 

[LeeD]

Oh, try it...
At Wise Surfboards, we were always competiing in standing high jumps, dips, pushups, situps, broad jumps, and all that silly stuff.
We found, indoors at the showroom, we could jump around 8'6" or so. Outside, in the new blacktop, on 43rd Ave., and flat also, most guys improved by easily a couple of inches, and one guy, GeorgeNikitin, 4". Me, a couple inches.
We'd jump up on the 42" counters, just to see who could to the most without a miss. That would be RichKlein, 14 in a row without a miss.
And we had a pool table downstairs.

 

[jmnk]

Oh, try it...
At Wise Surfboards, we were always competiing in standing high jumps, dips, pushups, situps, broad jumps, and all that silly stuff.
We found, indoors at the showroom, we could jump around 8'6" or so. Outside, in the new blacktop, on 43rd Ave., and flat also, most guys improved by easily a couple of inches, and one guy, GeorgeNikitin, 4". Me, a couple inches.
We'd jump up on the 42" counters, just to see who could to the most without a miss. That would be RichKlein, 14 in a row without a miss.
And we had a pool table downstairs.

just so we are all on the same page. Are you saying that this RichKlein dude did 14 consecutive standing vertical jumps of at least 42"?

 

[Sumo]

No, he was able to jump on a 42" counter, meaning he could pull his knees up.

Not sure what vertical would be needed to do it, but much less than 42".

 

[Ronaldo]

just so we are all on the same page. Are you saying that this RichKlein dude did 14 consecutive standing vertical jumps of at least 42"?

Stood next to a guy who skipped roped with every jump of at least 38".

 

[LeeD]

I think you only need a standing vertical of around 20" to jump onto a standard commercial counter of 42".
Guys with long legs have a big advantage over guys with short legs.
Of course, flexibility is a plus. And being thin. Talking about surfers here, who were all better than the "norm", all OceanBeach, SanFrancisco surfers.
Rich was 5'10", but had longer legs and longer arms than I did. He didn't do much on broad jump.
And the guy who broad jumped 8'8" at the shop didn't try the counter jump because his fear of breaking the counter and possibly needing to play for it.

 

[LeeD]

Or even possibly PAY for it. Yes, he was conservative, and photographer when the surf got really good.

 

[WildVolley]

Just did this again last weekend into a long jump pit after doing a brief sprint workout racing my brother from a flying start.

Not looking too great. I wasn't able to get over 8'. I've started training this again. To save my knees, I'm landing in either sand or dirt that has been softened (which is mostly sand).

I was motivated by this guy's video on the standing long jump as a measure of youthfulness.

 

[travlerajm]

This skill comes in handy when stranded on a ledge with hungry crocs below.

 

[WildVolley]

This skill comes in handy when stranded on a ledge with hungry crocs below.

You need to try the standing long jump. I wonder how well it correlates with standing vertical jump. Given you want to dunk, I think your standing long jump is going to need to be over 8'.

However, the standing long jump is more a measure of explosive strength rather than the jump reflex most people are going to use to dunk. Very common to see dunkers these days tossing the ball off the backboard before they jump so that they can use both arms and have better takeoff technique rather than holding a ball during the jump. When I could dunk, I'd mostly jump off of one foot and scoop the ball into the hoop as I couldn't palm it.

 

[travlerajm]

You need to try the standing long jump. I wonder how well it correlates with standing vertical jump. Given you want to dunk, I think your standing long jump is going to need to be over 8'.

However, the standing long jump is more a measure of explosive strength rather than the jump reflex most people are going to use to dunk. Very common to see dunkers these days tossing the ball off the backboard before they jump so that they can use both arms and have better takeoff technique rather than holding a ball during the jump. When I could dunk, I'd mostly jump off of one foot and scoop the ball into the hoop as I couldn't palm it.

I actually have a 4th place ribbon in the standing broad jump from the wa state Hershey track and field championships.

Age 12 and under division. I broke 7’, on the astroturf of husky stadium in the mid ‘80s.

That was the last time I was measured.

 

[WildVolley]

Made some progress after a short sprint workout. My best effort was 8'2". That's the first time I've gotten over 8' in a while. Again, I was jumping into a long jump pit which made the landing easy on my legs.

 

[onehandbh]

I'll give the standing broadjump a try this week. The last time I tried it was in middle school.

 

[onehandbh]

Just tried it barefoot, indoors. 6' without using arms.

I will try again outside when warmed up and using arms.

 

[travlerajm]

Just tried it barefoot, indoors. 6' without using arms.

I will try again outside when warmed up and using arms.

I respect that this post was in the traditional style of a TW match play vid.

 

[onehandbh]

I respect that this post was in the traditional style of a TW match play vid.

I will attempt a 15 foot standing broad jump next. I have 1st gen Motorola Razor phone with a broken camera so I will not be able to make a video of my jump.

 

[onehandbh]

I will attempt a broad jump some time in the next few days, but I am not going to try jump from a small boulder onto another small boulder.

While that guy's bounding is impressive, I would not recommend it for senior citizens with more brittle bones. A failed landing on a rock may not end well.