Year 10 - Physical education
Triple jump
Non-examined assessment: athletics practical
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Unit Summary
This unit provides pupils with the knowledge and opportunity to replicate skills in isolation and in performance scenarios across all athletic disciplines. As a popular individual sport offered by many pupils it will cover sprinting, middle distance, jumping, shot put and javelin events.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to execute a coordinated triple jump with good technique.
Key Notes
- Move: an effective combination of approach, hop, step and jump combine to perform a maximal and legal jump.
- Move: an effective triple jump requires each stage of hop, step and jump to cover approximately the same distance.
- Think: remember to keep transitions smooth and don't overreach with any stage to ensure balance and efficiency.
- Feel: being committed to all-out effort with each attempt will achieve the jumper's best result.
- Connect: advising a partner will guide them to perform a technically sound approach and jump with maximal distance.
Vocabulary To Learn
- hop: first phase of jumping with take off and landing on same foot
- step: second phase of jumping with take off and landing on opposite foot
- jump: final phase of jumping with a two foot landing
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils often fail to get enough distance in the middle step phase of the triple jump and it is much shorter then the other two phases causing them to lose distance.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: an effective combination of approach, hop, step and jump combine to perform a maximal and legal jump. Move: an effective triple jump requires each stage of hop, step and jump to cover approximately the same distance.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'hop'
first phase of jumping with take off and landing on same foot.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils often fail to get enough distance in the middle step phase of the triple jump and it is much shorter then the other two phases causing them to lose distance. Correction: Help pupils to understand that ideally the distance covered in each phase will be similar. It might seem counterintuitive but the short step is often due to the hop stage being too long and we need to seek balance between all three stages.
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