Replace the bar:
The first step in developing high jumpers is to make them comfortable landing on their backs. The worst thing you can do, particularly with a young person who’s come to you with a desire to learn to high jump, is to turn him/her off to the sport with a rough beginning. Therefore, you don’t use a bar to train beginning jumpers. You don’t want would-be high jumpers to knock the bar over, land on it a couple times, then tell themselves they should find another sport where you don’t end up with a metal bar poking you in the back.
When you try these or other drills with new high jumpers, put a rope (a cord or a string will also work) between the uprights. Put some type of weight on the rope, like a bag or sock full of sand, to keep it in place. It doesn’t have to be perfectly taut to do these beginning drills. And when jumpers knock the rope out of place, it won’t hurt if they land on it.
The first step in developing high jumpers is to make them comfortable landing on their backs. The worst thing you can do, particularly with a young person who’s come to you with a desire to learn to high jump, is to turn him/her off to the sport with a rough beginning. Therefore, you don’t use a bar to train beginning jumpers. You don’t want would-be high jumpers to knock the bar over, land on it a couple times, then tell themselves they should find another sport where you don’t end up with a metal bar poking you in the back.
When you try these or other drills with new high jumpers, put a rope (a cord or a string will also work) between the uprights. Put some type of weight on the rope, like a bag or sock full of sand, to keep it in place. It doesn’t have to be perfectly taut to do these beginning drills. And when jumpers knock the rope out of place, it won’t hurt if they land on it.
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