He taps his phone and E=MC2 vanishes from the centre of the floor and an old film is projected on the walls. The title of the clip is Leap of the Century. My heart’s beating so fast, I’m scared it’ll jump out of my chest. This is it! This is what I play over and over in my head every day of my life till it’s part of who I am. Bob Beamon doing the long jump at the Olympics in Mexico City on the 18th of October 1968. The run-up, the leap, the kangaroo-hopping afterwards. It’s over in seconds. It doesn’t show the long wait before they announced the world record, the measuring with the old-fashioned measuring tape because the modern technology only went to 28 feet.

Robert Beamon jumps and makes sports history. The makers of the measuring instrument never foresaw a jump so staggering.

The film, the commentary, it’s like I’m there on the runway, in the moment, leaping through space and time. The best feeling ever. MC2 must love it too. I know Big Ben and Maria will. I can’t wait to discuss it with them.

8 metres, 90 centimetres = twenty-nine feet, two and one-half inches flashes up on the wall followed by a quote from Lynn ‘the Leap’ Davies, who got the long jump gold medal in 1964.

He has broken the Olympic record by a half-century.

MC2 blinks his body.

‘In 1968, Bob Beamon smashed the world record. World got a new word: Beamonesque. In 1969, man set foot on the moon. Peeps weren’t Leaps. Not only Leaps leap. ANYONE can leap. Don’t have to be a leap year. Leap’s a feat no one at the time could believe. Can be physical, physiological, psychological, logical, lexical.

‘To make that leap, you gotta have IMAGINATION.

‘Anyone can leap with mindset. Leaps know it. Annuals know it. Why’d they change the school system? So peeps can play to their strengths. E-College-E max the eco. Triple Ms got the motto MIND OVER MATTER. Today, you get the strategy, the funda-mentals. Up to you to apply it.’

He divides us into pairs, each Leapling with an Annual. Leaplings have to leap within the room; Annuals have to coach us and give feedback. In the second half of the workshop, we’ll go outside on the field so Annuals can long jump and Leaplings give feedback. You must focus on exactly where you want to land, find a blemish like a crack in the floor, a spot of dirt, a fuzzy tile. Channel your mind into it, imagine you’re already there. When you’ve gone into the zone, count down slowly from 10 to 0 in your head. When you reach zero, you leap.