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The Abstract, Table-top Jump, or Double Hook. Highly over-exaggerated here, the idea is to bring both legs to a horisontal flat (cheer-sit) position. One leg is bent in front and the other bent in back, while arms are placed in a high V. |
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The Front Hurdler. The idea is to put arms in a touch-down motion, and bring the front leg, extended and with toe pointed, up to the hands while leaning only slightly forward and keeping the back leg slightly bent. |
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The Toe-Touch or Russian shown here in inverted form. The idea is to maintain a T motion with the arms as the legs are allowed to come up to a spread but parallel position with the arms (normal) or higher than and behind the arms (inverted)
Variations exist like the Around The World. In this jump, the arms often remain in a touchdown position, as the legs move from a properly executed pike into a toe-touch before returning to the ground in the landing. |
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The Pike. The idea is to bring both legs to a position parallel to the ground, with legs straight, ankles together, and toes pointed. Arms are in the buckets position, and should not drop to the feet. |
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The Double-Nine. Much like a pike jump, but one arm and one leg (both from the same side) are bent, toe from the bent leg pointing toward the knee of the straight leg, and hand of the bent arm pointing toward the elbow of the straight arm. |
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The Hurkie. The straight leg in this jump is brought to a similar position as in the Toe-Touch. The other leg is bent to the back. The arm on the side of the front leg is hooked to the hip while both are in a GO position.
A variation exists for the arms where a T is used instead of a GO position.
Some will also refer to this as the Side Hurdler. The main difference is that the Side Hurdler will always use the T position for the arms. Also the bent leg of a Side Hurdler is intended to be flat as in the Abstract, whereas the Hurkie often has the bent knee pointing toward the ground. |
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The Tuck or Spirit Tuck. Very simple. The objective here is to lift the knees as high and as close to the chest as possible while keeping the upper body upright, and the arms in a T position.
Several variations exist, one of the more popular being a touch-down position for the arms. |
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