Maintaining the perfect technique is everything.

As a jump specialist, I've been watching in detail how Mondo Duplantis did not stop at 6.17m, he came right back and broke his own pole vault world record by clearing 6.18m!

You don't have to be a specialist to be able to see clearly, the magnificent quality of his technique.

First, if we look at his approach, we can see how during it, he keeps his knees at 90 degrees, and how he gradually increases his speed to reach the maximum to guarantee an explosive take off, and at the same time to obtain a great amplitude at the entry. The rest is pure, good quality gymnastics, of perfect abilities.

The speed was great, but there is something that impressed me a lot- the ability during the approach, to keep his hips always up, something that triple jumpers almost always have problems with.

For example, during the hop and the step, triple jumpers due to lack of technique, tend to drop the hip at these two jumps.

Committing this error results in the loss of momentum and the speed between jumps, resulting in the last jump being almost always very poor.

In these last three years, despite the fact that the 18m barrier has been passed several times, the technique of jumpers remains the same, and I personally have not seen any change.

I think we, as coaches, are forgetting about the important upright posture which a triple jumper has to keep during the jumps.

Another very fundamental thing- jumpers still do not know how, during the approach, to be able to push back on the track or the take-off board.

Maintaining the speed between jumps is the most important thing for achieving a great distance, but the complexity of this discipline makes everything difficult, so everything has to be in balance.

For example, I will discuss some of the things we have to take into account - remember each coach knows what to focus on with their athletes,

- Speed

- Time and space.

- Posture

- Co-ordination etc.

To be a great triple jumper you have to work on the technique day by day. Plyometrics is very important, but an athlete without technique, no matter how strong or fast he will only accumulate injuries instead of developing his results, and when for one reason or another he becomes professional, his career will be damaged due to the great lack of technique.