Complete Book of Jumps

by Bob Fraley and Ed Jacoby

Book Overview

Field event coaches Ed Jacoby and Bob Fraley have worked with many world-class and Olympic jumpers. In Complete Book of Jumps , they draw on their combined 60 years of coaching experience to help track and field athletes at all levels of competition improve their jumping technique, training, and performance. The book features clear instruction combined with detailed illustrations for these 4 jumping events: long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873226739
• ISBN13: 9780873226738
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

great buy

This is a great companion to his new book - Winning Jumps and Pole Vault - can't go wrong with either book - great resources for the would-be jumper

Very informative and well written!

TJ and LJ were my specialties in high school and college, and I have been an avid technical student of the TJ and LJ events for over 20 years, as both an athlete and a coach. The Complete Book of Jumps is a book that I wish I would have found long ago. It's far and away the best text I've found on the subject of jumps.

Very helpful.

This excellent book breaks down all phases of the jumps, ie: long jump, high jump, triple jump, and pole vault. The book discusses the science and technique of many successful jumpers throughout the world and breaks down each phase of the jump. There is also great training and conditioning information as well.

Great book, great results.

Not only was this book easy to understand, but I went from "no 20 foot long jumpers" to having three that went over 21 feet. Great stuff on periodization. Easy to understand and easy to implement.

An excellent jumping traing book;thourough, clear, helpful.

I was happily suprised by this book. I'm used to seeing general track and field books or "specialized" books that are nothing of the sort. This book, however, is wonderful. It covers all aspects of the long, triple, high and pole vault jumping events, form the first training day to the approach to the landing to the last day of season. In fact, it gives a comprehensive training plan for the whole year. Plus, "The Complete Book of Jumps" gives really good, clear explanation, complete with illustrations, of each of the jumps. It's definitely worth the money and the read, even for half the information it has!