When the jockey pasitions his or her frog and then yells, screams,jump up and down, puffs, blows, whistles, or does whatever eles is necesssary to incite the frog to jump.the One thing that is not allowed is any kind of physical contact with the frog. Each frog is given 15 seconds to jump three times. Once a frog has made its three jumps, an official measures the distance from the center of the pad to spot where the frog landed on its third jump. Naturally, the winning frong is usually the one that jumped jn the straightest line rather than zigzagged around