Long Jump

[willows]

Hi folks

I'm interested in finding out what sort of distances are achieved in long jump competitions?? The reason being we were walking on the beach yesterday with our daughter & her shepherd who loves water which our 13 month lurcher doesn't, the shepherd was running through the 9 inch deep streams that run on this beach to retrieve the ball but our lurcher was leaping them with ease and achieving what seemed to us as quite a considerable distance, at one point she was just standing the other side of one of these streams when she took a standing leap across roughly 15 - 16 feet, is this a normal feat for a lurcher or is she showing some talent as a long jumper?

 

[pippywhippet]

Not sure what distances they jump at shows, but just looked online and the current world record is held by a wire haired pointer with a jump of over 30ft!!!! (w00t) (w00t) (w00t)

http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-the...a-dog-long-jump

 

[milly]

Hi Willows, this our Midge in the 90s doing the long jump, her longest jump was 22 1/2 feet, she also won chatsworth 3 consecutive years running.

Thats a good distance for the 1st time Willows, she's definately got talent :thumbsup:

 

[willows]

Hi Willows, this our Midge in the 90s doing the long jump, her longest jump was 22 1/2 feet, she also won chatsworth 3 consecutive years running.

Thats a good distance for the 1st time Willows, she's definately got talent :thumbsup:

Hi Milly

Thanks for your reply, Chatsworth champion 3 years on the trot that some feat well done to midge.

The 15-16 foot jump was without any form of run up, she was just standing there and took off like an antelope which is why I asked the question, a lot of dogs could make that jump with a run up but to do it from standing amazed me. :thumbsup:

 

[milly]

Also Mark Bricks dog Kat was a very good long jumper :thumbsup: infact Kat was a bloody good alrounder :thumbsup: and TOMTHUMB'S dog was

 

[madman]

your a bad man millysorry tomthumb

nice pic there of the little dog doin the jump i cant get mine up lol mean pics,

just in 42 rabbits with the pup kat sits in the passenger seat now watchin for fox,lol

yea kat is 22 and a bit did 26 feet in long jump and that s some leap lol

think she did 24 at the cornish show as well other year any dog that does anything over 20 feet deserves a medal its a great achievement,

atb markbrick nu 1 rabbit catcher,lol :lol: :lol: