Sometimes when you're 33 and you start practicing to get better at jumping you learn things that you feel like you're too old to have learned. I've been doing these things called 'pogos' a lot which is where you jump with your legs pretty straight and you try to bounce basically instead of bending your knees every time. Anyway I was really bad at them at first and recently I've started to realize that if you sort of anticipate the landing with your feet and ankles you can get an extra little push into the ground. It's hard to put into words but it's been one of many discoveries. 

I'm gonna go watch Bob Beamon's Olympic long jump