Viktor Saneyev competed for the former Soviet Union in the triple jump from the 1960s all the way into the 1980s. He won 3 straight Olympic titles and grabbed a silver in his 4th Olympic Games in Moscow (1980). Along the way he was of course a several time European champion and also managed to [...]

Monday evening happened to be the first time I’ve laid eyes on my jump spikes since August 16th; the date of the qualifying round for the Men’s Triple Jump in Berlin. True story. I even joked with my training partners about how I had to clean out some remnants of “Berlin sand” before I put [...]

A few times a year, my coach will have my training group perform some jump testing. The exercises are performed from a 6 step approach and include 4 hops (each leg is tested), 2 hops-2 steps, 4 steps and occasionally 3 hops-1 step. It is tough to gauge what the distances mean on their own, [...]