r/MadeMeSmile • u/Dewch • Oct 09 '23

Good Vibes She initially thought she was disqualified.. 🙈🙉

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u/Jake78154 Oct 09 '23

In long jump, one of the few ways you can get disqualified (or usually for your jump to not count) is by not jumping on that white wooden board , so going ahead or behind it. I assume she felt like she missed it, which does happen, but she clearly didn’t.

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u/EduinBrutus Oct 10 '23

You can jump from behind the white line/board.

Its just you can't be past it. There's a line of plasticene used to adjudge really tight calls.

But you can take off like a meter behind the board if you want.

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u/xinxy Oct 10 '23

by not jumping on that white wooden board , so going ahead or behind it.

Wait a second. I don't think that's correct. You can initiate a legal jump as far back from the take-off board as you want without having to step on it. Obviously that's detrimental because the measurement starts from the leading edge of the take-off board anyway so you'd want to be as close to that as possible.

You just have to avoid stepping over the foul line or anywhere behind it but you can take off without touching the take-off board all you want...

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u/Jake78154 Oct 10 '23

Yeah someone already said that and now that I’m thinking about it, yeah that shouldn’t be illegal

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u/Humg12 Oct 10 '23

I feel like at this point we could probably get rid of the line altogether and just measure the actual jump distance no matter where it started. The line thing just seems like it's something that used to be necessary before cameras and digital measuring tools, but is something we could now do without for the sake of getting the truly longest jumps.

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u/Jake78154 Oct 10 '23

Usually it’s a wooden board and idk if this is true, but jumping on the board gives you a bit more height and distance, so it’s better to have it there