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MOVEMENT PATTERNS – THE ESSENCE OF SPORTS BIOMECHANICS<br />

Figure 1.24 Standing countermovement broad, or long, jump with hands on hips. Top left: starting position; <strong>to</strong>p right: lowest<br />

point; bot<strong>to</strong>m: take-off.<br />

indica<strong>to</strong>r of how well the jumper had partitioned effort between the horizontal and<br />

vertical components of the jumps. We could do this by trying <strong>to</strong> observe the difference<br />

between the height of the jumper’s centre of mass – indicated roughly by the height of<br />

the hips – at take-off and at landing. The higher the take-off height above the landing<br />

height, the smaller the take-off angle should be. If the take-off and landing heights are<br />

equal, the optimum angle would be 45° (see also Chapter 4, page 145).<br />

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