Thank you for your reply. Actually I was going for a cartoony effect. I was kind of following an animation book I have. If it was meant to be realistic, I would not have really stretched it as much, before or after it hits the ground.
With the choppy-ness… I put the images together in Blender with the sequence editor. I have the frame rate set to 25 frames/second. Should I increase this? I will try that.