full time transition to track??

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          ChazThomas on May 6, 2009 at 2:08 am #15704

          hey everyone.. im a d3 college senior and im considering making a full-time transition to being a long jumper and triple jumper after 2 outdoor seasons and 1 indoor season.. i used to play basketball full time, but ive experience a bit of success in track and i think that ive got a lot of tools athletically.. for numbers sake, my prs are 7.17 & 14.70 respectively (although i was stripped of a 15.09 at the 2009 Penn Relays)..

          anyway, as an athlete, i think ive got the tools to be a pretty good jumper.. i was wondering if i could get some feedback.. id def be interested in trying to jump after i graduate in a few weeks..

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          Eric Broadbent on May 6, 2009 at 8:21 am #82927

          I’ve seen you jump before and I think there is definitely a lot more potential there. Considering how young your training age is, who knows what you would be capable of if you received the right training and feedback. If you love the sport and want to continue on then I say hell yeah go for it. Just make sure that if you are going to go for it then don’t make it half assed. Go for it all the way…you have the rest of your life to work and be miserable (hopefully not). haha…just my two cents.
          Also kind of ridiculous about Penn Relays and the way they ran TJ. You would think at a meet like that they would have there shit together.

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          Mike Young on May 6, 2009 at 9:50 am #82934

          Ditto to what Eric said.

          Why was your 15.09 taken away at Penn?

          ELITETRACK Founder

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          ChazThomas on May 6, 2009 at 12:52 pm #82949

          apparently, the measuring device was not calibrated.. they use lasers and other hi-tech stuff as opposed to a tape measure.. the officials at the meet first said that the device was off 7cm.. sooo my 15.09 and 14.96 were both scrapped.. then after the meet, the officials threw away all of the jumps and claimed that the device was off by 70cm.. their rationale seemed illogical bc basically they were telling other consistent 50ft triple jumpers that they were only jumping 47s and low 48s.. i think the entire field protested the jumps on the grounds that relays had ideal jump conditions (it was nearly 85 degrees with a very light wind).. regardless, the jumps from the trials did not count and only the jumps from finals were considered legal..

          the “proper” (albeit incomplete) reasoning can be found here:
          https://pennrelaysonline.com/results.aspx?en=308

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          mortac8 on May 6, 2009 at 10:28 pm #82970

          Ugh… hi-tech measuring devices. I know your pain. There is no substitute for a stick and a measuring tape.

          Regarding full time jumping. I think you can excel without being totally full time. On the most basic level, I would look for:
          -at least a part time job to get some money
          -a coach
          -a training group or training partner

          You jumping at Swarthmore again this year on Monday?

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          Eric Broadbent on May 6, 2009 at 11:04 pm #82972

          Yeah I agree that it doesn’t have to be a totally full time thing. I am excited to see what Chaz can do in the future because I have seen him jump before. When he lands in LJ and TJ hes standing almost straight up and down and still jumps over 7 and 14 meters which amazed me when I first started watching him jump because of the distance he was losing from that alone. We have also had conversations about training and how there coaches want to keep him fresh so he hasn’t done a lot of real sprint development or sprint training in general. I think with a combination of the things Mort has mentioned above it would be very exciting to see what he’s capable of.

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          ChazThomas on May 7, 2009 at 12:26 am #82977

          ” date=”1241629126″]Ugh… hi-tech measuring devices. I know your pain. There is no substitute for a stick and a measuring tape.

          Regarding full time jumping. I think you can excel without being totally full time. On the most basic level, I would look for:
          -at least a part time job to get some money
          -a coach
          -a training group or training partner

          You jumping at Swarthmore again this year on Monday?

          yes, ill be doing LJ and TJ at Swarthmore on Monday.. i think that i could find a job and probably find a coach.. as for a training group or partner, idk..

          and eric is right about my landings/everything else.. the landings are pretty crappy, but i think that i might eventually be able to figure it out or learn how to actually jump properly..

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          mortac8 on May 7, 2009 at 4:35 am #82986

          Still landing standing up like last season? Do you have a LJ coach and do you work on that at all? That’s something that can get you 6″+ pretty quick in LJ.

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          ChazThomas on May 7, 2009 at 8:17 am #82992

          i guess it will still take some getting used to.. hopefully i begin to put things together soon..

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          Chad Williams on May 7, 2009 at 8:24 am #82993

          I was reading my techniques magazine and saw that you got DIII Indoor Athlete of the Year for the Mideast. Congrats man.

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          ChazThomas on May 7, 2009 at 8:26 am #82994

          haha really?? thanks.. i didnt even know that kinda thing got published anywhere..

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          Carl Valle on May 7, 2009 at 9:01 am #82996

          If you need advise on post college track without the big shoe contract give me a shout. The art of work and training is not easy but can be done.

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          Mike Young on May 7, 2009 at 3:44 pm #83025

          haha really?? thanks.. i didnt even know that kinda thing got published anywhere..

          Congrats.

          That magazine actually goes out to almost every collegiate coach in the country.

          ELITETRACK Founder

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          ChazThomas on May 12, 2009 at 2:23 pm #83243

          sooo jumped at swarthmore last chance meet.. today was absolute poop.. 7.08 in the long and 14.39 in the triple.. warmup felt okay, but didnt really feel great on the runway for either of the jumps.. flat on the long jumps, and i didnt really execute any of the triple phases.. i really have no idea what the hell happened.. coach has me going to another last chance meet out at north central college in naperville, ill.. hopefully i can rest up and focus on the triple..

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          Mike Young on May 12, 2009 at 2:25 pm #83244

          Where on the lists are you sitting? Do you really need to go for the last chance marks?

          ELITETRACK Founder

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          ChazThomas on May 12, 2009 at 11:53 pm #83262

          ehh im #10 on the long jump list, but like 20 or 21 on the triple list..

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          mortac8 on May 13, 2009 at 1:17 am #83266

          You will be fine with LJ, don’t worry about that.

          Rest up and go for triple like you said. You know it’s there as evidenced by your Penn Relays jumps, you just have to let it appear once again.

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          ChazThomas on May 17, 2009 at 10:55 pm #83499

          ok, soo the last chance meet in chicago (north central college) was a complete disaster.. ended up jumping 14.42 or 14.43 on the last attempt and didnt even get the board.. lists of who’s going went up today: 14.50 got in.. soo just going to ncaas for long jump..

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