> 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 >> improvement before it was banned. > > That must have been a truly revolutionary technique. Who was doing it, and > when, and how far? >
A quick history, just off the top of my head: Idaho State coach Dave Nielsen is pictured in the pages of T&FN around '73 using the technique. At the '74 Pac-8 meet in the LA Coliseum, John Delamere of Washington State absolutely blew the crowd away by using the style. As I recall, jumped somehting like 25-4 3/4 wind-aided. In '75 Bruce Jenner used it and added about a foot to his best, but the IAAF shortly thereafter banned the technique, citing "safety issues." I think they were premature in so doing. I think Delamere went on to become a member of the New Zealand parliament. gh
