Over-hopped phase 1
You committed too hard to the hop and arrived at the step with no momentum. The step crashes, the jump has nothing to work with. Fix: shorten the hop by a foot, transfer to a longer step.
If your triple jump ends with a short, sad final jump, the cause is almost always upstream, in the hop or the step. The final phase looks like the problem because it's where the distance stops growing, but the fix is usually 2-3 steps before takeoff. Below: the diagnostic.
You committed too hard to the hop and arrived at the step with no momentum. The step crashes, the jump has nothing to work with. Fix: shorten the hop by a foot, transfer to a longer step.
Step landing should be active, foot strike ahead of the hips. A vertical landing absorbs all your momentum. Drill: step-emphasis bounds focusing on horizontal landing.
Looking at the pit before takeoff drops the trunk and shortens the final phase. Keep eye line 10-15 feet past the pit through all three phases.
The final phase distance is a function of what arrived at the takeoff. Film a triple jump, AI measures hop length, step landing position, and takeoff angle on the jump phase. The slow-down point is almost never the jump itself.
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