Jumps Clinic #2 -- Courtenay, Feb. 21, 2004
Hosted by Comox Valley Cougars Track Club
Thirty plus athletes! and Eleven Coaches in attendance. Cool but on the whole the weather was very reasonable. Chili, buns, hot chocolate, etc. prepared by Christine Morfitt. Many thanks to Tony Dickson, John May and all the other Comox Valley cougars who did such a great job in organizing and running this clinic.
Schedule:
1) Warmup exercises done by the athletes in attendance (30 min) with coaches observing and discussing2) Split into two groups:
- a) conditioning
- b) horizontal jumps . Athletes were shown drills to help improve their skills and coaches watched and discussed while athletes did the drills. Strong emphasis on having athletes state what they were thinking as they did their jumps so that they get used to concentrating on what they do in each jump so that they can analyse and improve their jumping. Then, more drills were done followd by a real live jump (80 min)
3) high jump - prelimnary exercises (30 min)
4) Lunch followed by talk on sprint exercises as an aid to jumping more on high jump and (90 min).
The pictures below were taken by Tom Dingle and therefore are biased in that they tend to show the Peninsula Track athlete (Thomas Riekki). Also in attendance from Peninsula Track Club were coaches Eleanor Richardson and John Root and parent Bob Riekki.
