KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Training in teams for personal bests in long jump and triple jump
Athletics: train and perform in a sport education season
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Your learning goal
I can work independently for increasing duration within a small team to improve my personal best in long jump and triple jump.
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Training in teams for personal bests in long jump and triple jump: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can work independently for increasing duration within a small team to improve my personal best in long jump and triple jump.
Key learning points
- Move: long jumpers should accelerate smoothly to reach maximum speed at the take off board after 12-14 strides.
- Move: swinging the arms forward and upward at take off helps to transfer forward momentum and increase distance jumped.
- Think: explaining the rules and feeding back to peers on accurate take off from the board allows for changes to be made.
- Feel: setting personal targets can help motivate and improve future performance.
- Connect: recognising when a personal best has been achieved is more motivating than comparing your scores to others.
Words to know
- motivation
- staying driven and inspired to keep improving and achieving athletic goals
- practise
- repeatedly working on skills and techniques with focus and effort to improve performance
- approach run
- the measured run up that builds speed and sets up for the take off
Common mistakes
A common mistake in the triple jump is the athlete collapses the middle 'step phase' rather than getting equal height and distance from every phase.
Emphasis on all phases of the jump should be practised, especially the step phase, with height and efficiency. All phases of the triple jump should contribute to an equal proportion of distance e.g. 2m x2m x2m
For parents, carers and teachers
- Mulitiple take off boards, set at different distances from the sand, are helpful to ensure jumpers of different abilities can land safely in the sand area. When appropriate, use both male and female WRs with mixed gendered groups to make the challenge more appropriate/realistic.