Re: t-and-f: Long jump with a flip

2002 06:16:05 -0800 Garry Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: t-and-f: long jump with a flip A quick history, just off the top of my head: Idaho State coach Dave Nielsen is pictured in the pages of TFN around '73 using the technique. At the '74 Pac-8 meet in the LA Coliseum, John Delamere

Re: t-and-f: long jump with a flip

I can tell you who. Dave Neilson,head track coach at Idaho State and Stacey Dragilla's coach, made the front cover of several track magazines with his somersault jump. I don't remember his longest jump, but I know that there could be a big difference between his longest and shortest jump of the

Re: t-and-f: long jump with a flip

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:57:36 -0500 (CDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: t-and-f: long jump with a flip Someone who knows far more about track than I do wrote: I seem to recall that long jump with a flip looked like a mechanical

Re: t-and-f: long jump with a flip

When I was maybe 10 or 11 (which would have been about 1975 or 1976), my father took me to the Mason-Dixon games in Louisville. Someone there was doing the somersault and I thought it was absolutely the coolest thing I had ever seen. If I remember correctly, it was just an exhibition. I wish I

Re: t-and-f: long jump with a flip

Delamere was the one I remember getting all the headlines, the new technique vaulting him into national-level NCAA contention, and TV analysts giving a great deal more airplay to the LJ than they would ordinarily do. It was presented as 'possibly the breakthough for the LJ that Fosbury did for

Re: t-and-f: long jump with a flip

I recall going to one of the old ITA Pro Indoor track meets. I recall a picture, possibly on the cover, of Delamere in his WSU jersey. My older brother and I started doing it too. He ended up a whacked out skier doing all kinds of flips and me, well, though never injured doing a flip, chose an

Re: t-and-f: long jump with a flip

My recollection of it was extremely vague, but I was able to find an interesting article on line that gives the credit to Dave Nielsen, head coach at Idaho State, and a former pole vaulter and decathlete. Says he improved his PR by 2 ft before the technique was banned.