High Jump
- landing on your feet
- keeping your arms up
- using your arms to get some height
- scissor legs
- approach the bar from the side that suits you best
- look above the bar
- kick your legs up straight in front of you (scissor kick)
Long jump
- taking off on one foot landing on two
- using your arms to get some height
- jumping up AND along
- falling forwards at the end of your jump not backwards
- using your run up to help you jump forwards
Sprints
- keeping your eyes on the prize
- running fast like a cheetah
- imagining something really scary is chasing you
- sprinting all the way over the finish line
Discus
- holding the discus with a duck beak and your palm facing downwards
- using the strength of your leg muscles and the weight of your body to throw it
- aiming upwards in an arc not just along
- letting the discus go at the top of the arc
Shot put
- pushing the shot put from our neck with a piston action
- using the strength of your leg muscles and the weight of your body to put the shot
- give the shot a bit of height
Middle distance
- starting with a strong steady run
- keeping a steady pace
- sprinting at the end
- having your arms pumping beside your body not across your body
Hurdles / sack races
- leaping over the hurdles rather than springing over them
- keeping your running rhythm even
- pulling the sack upwards with your arms
Deciding that the next try will be your best try.
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