\u201cIt felt pretty good beating the record.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been wanting to break this record since I broke last year\u2019s record, and my ultimate goal was to come through and break this record a year early, and next year further the record to set it higher.\u201d<\/p>\n
William Easton said he enjoys the focus needed to carry out a jump. <\/p>\n
Easton said in 2025 he broke the under-16 record, which he said was 173cm. <\/p>\n
While he said he was proud, it\u2019s just the start. He would be attempting a triple long jump record on Wednesday night and then the school\u2019s high jump record on Friday. <\/p>\n
He said his favourite part about the sport was when he locked in to carry out a jump.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like getting into the mindset of having focus, you have got to go in and out of focus with each jump … you have to be able to snap in and out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Easton said he had honed his Fosbury flop technique and was working hard on building muscle. <\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of explosiveness at the gym, trying to get as much power to my legs as possible, lots of box jumps, short sprints, and weighted squats.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dannevirke High School took to social media to congratulate Easton.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations and sensational to William Easton, who just broke the Dannevirke U18 Athletics Club record … Ka mau te wehi, William.\u201d<\/p>\n
Easton said that as well as the record attempts, he hoped to be able to jump a height of 180cm by the time of the NZ track and field club nationals in Auckland in March. <\/p>\n
Michaela Gower joined Hawke\u2019s Bay Today in 2023 and is based out of the Hastings newsroom. She covers Dannevirke and Hawke\u2019s Bay news and loves sharing stories about farming and rural communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt felt pretty good beating the record. \u201cI have been wanting to break this record since I broke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18431,165223,24752,16671,13912,3595,18836,37251,9060,39362,2959,23902,165224,130,111,139,69,90,1974,213,131,223,2951,69619,810,10744],"class_list":{"0":"post-300957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-16yearold","9":"tag-165223","10":"tag-ago","11":"tag-athletics","12":"tag-broken","13":"tag-by","14":"tag-club","15":"tag-dannevirke","16":"tag-decades","17":"tag-easton","18":"tag-high","19":"tag-jump","20":"tag-jumper","21":"tag-more","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-on","26":"tag-record","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-than","29":"tag-the","30":"tag-town","31":"tag-under18","32":"tag-up","33":"tag-william"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}