A Study of Relationship between Preferred Foot and Long Jump Performance

Abstract

    This study aims to discuss the laterality both by a questionnaire survey and a long jump record survey, which made it possible to make a contrastive study of a conscious preferred foot and the long jump records.

    The results were as follows:

    1) The questionnaire confirmed which was the preferred foot in a running long jump, a running high jump and a ball-kicking.

       The preferred foot jump both in a running long jump and a running high jump produces better long jump records than the non-preferred foot jump.

       The preferred foot in the ball-kicking has no relevance with long jump records.

    2) The difference of. the performance between the long jump by the preferred foot and the one by a non-preferred foot was most conspicuous in a running long jump among the standing long jump, the one-step long jump and the running long jump.

    3) The records in the one-step long jump and the running long jump were best only when the same preferred foot was employed in both the running long jump and the running high jump.

    It was potentially found that the preferred foot for take-off had some relationship with the amount of technical elements and its skillfulness involved in the exercise concemed.