Arching Your Back High Jump Myth - Video

[@annacv107]

im 13 and my highest is 4'9 can't wait till my season starts in the spring!

[@Anaperius]

Anna Vitale it’s been 6 years, are you still 13?

[@RachJones915]

Yeah how did the year go? How about your high jumping career? You still at it?! Don’t leave us hanging!

[@iTzzzFr0sTy1]

this is a great video im a freshman and i recently have jumped 5 10 im trying to get 6 feet by the end of this year

[@joeygzemski8732]

Im having trouble with arching my back can anyone help me im going flat over the bar

[@GreggBlanchard]

@ellovestumbling332 That's awesome! Great work!

[@ImanPirmo]

Got sports day this friday, doing high jump and kinda nervous. Came first 2 years ago :), but third last year and kinda not confident :P

[@cupcakesoldiers7714]

Isn't it the Center of Mass?

[@HighJumpMaster1]

Very good info. Thank you

[@huguesdesesquelles7252]

Dommage que pour réfuter un mythe (celui du 'dos creux'), vous éprouviez le besoin d'en mentionner un autre (celui du 'CdG sous la barre'), car même les gymnastes hyperlaxes capables de faire le 'crabe inversé' ont leur CdG dans l'organisme (au niveau des lombaires) donc au dessus d'une hypothétique barre. Mais pour le reste, bravo pour cette excellente série de vidéos sur les aspects techniques du saut en hauteur (notamment celle sur le concept fondamental de rotation).

[@beingkel7167]

THANKKK YOUU SOOO MUCHH!!!

[@larytime6385]

i’m 15 and 6’5 i can jump 180 cm easily is that good

[@erenjaeger6082]

Honest answer is no....you can jump much much higher, I suggest you strengthen your legs and full body but try not to gain too much mass and then try getting faster in around 3 months of hard work and training you could easily jump 2m+ I'm 16 and 6ft and my max jump is 172cm not really since I've been trying and my vertical(without running) puts my mid-ower back over 185cm now it couldn't before I started working out which was when I hit 172cm Trust me all you need as a tall person is to be stronger so you can ad more force and faster so that force can be multiplied just before you spring. I hope you take what I say into consideration Hope that helped and good luck

[@1mdwood]

Gregg can I get you email please

[@losthegod9458]

If I can scissor kick 5'8 is that true that I can high jump 6'8

[@NeroWarriorX]

LosThe God ye

[@simonsilva250]

graet vid

[@jellybean4454]

And throw your head back and kick your feet at the end or your feet will hit the bar, I'm 14 and my pr is 4,10

[@dylankaylor842]

I'm in 8th grade and my PR is 5'7

[@tommytwobrews]

5'7 metres? bullshit

[@dylankaylor842]

+Tom Poulter hey smart one. Feet

[@thethirdman225]

The real myth of this is that the flop is more efficient than the straddle when they are really much the same. The flop is just much easier to teach and learn. A big back arch and raised hips makes the recovery phase of the jump harder to time because as your hips go up, other parts go down. Come out too soon and you will hit the bar either with your bum or the back of your thighs. Coming out too late (rare) means taking the bar off with your heels. The more extreme the arch, the harder the timing. It is more important to learn to control rotation around the bar. This is done by raising your heels slightly after take off to speed up that rotation, or straightening your knees slightly to slow it down. Fosbury himself did not have a big back arch but his rotation around the bar was spot on.

[@david2804me]

The flop is clearly more efficient than the straddle except only if, for whatever reason, any individual is unable to master the flop. There is a very good reason why absolutely no one at the top level of the event uses anything other than the flop....the straddle is now confined to history or to those who do not have an inflatable to land on.

[@thethirdman225]

@@david2804me The reason the flop is used universally today is that it is easier to teach and learn. The differences in efficiency are insignificant. Google "The Evolution of High Jumping Technique" by Dr Jesus Dapena. Dr Dapena, with whom I have had personal contact, is a former biomechanist at the University of Indiana and was advise to the US track and Field team for decades. More recently, he advised people like 2011 World Champion Jesse Williams. Dr Dapena shows that while the flop has an advantage in bar clearance, depending on how much a jumper arches their back (but that can be self-defeating), the straddle has the advantage on take off. He concludes that there are people out there who, for reasons of physiology, would probably achieve better results using the straddle. Speaking as a former jumper, a former coach and a sports science graduate, I'd be interested to see what information you have to offer to support your case, other than the _post hoc, ergo propter hoc_ argument that "everybody does it, so it must be more efficient".

[@david2804me]

@@thethirdman225 With reference to your third para first, contending that stating the blindingly obvious is not a valid argument just because it is blindingly obvious might work for you but for common sense pragmatists like myself, the blindingly obvious is usually the right argument. To return to the substance, I am sure that the Dr. to whom you refer has studied the matter in depth, and he has clearly convinced you of his conclusions, but has it not occurred to you that hundreds or even thousands of other equally and possibly more qualified coaches and sports scientists have also studied the techniques concerned? More importantly, hundreds of thousands of athletes since 1968 have had the opportunity to learn both (and other) techniques but every single athlete who has come to the top of the pile in the last 40+ years have used the flop technique....because, very simply, they, backed up by their coaches, have found out that they can jump higher using it. Now, if you want to hit your head against a wall to try to counter this most compelling of all arguments then go ahead....knock yourself out.

[@thethirdman225]

@@david2804me I’d be interested to see your nebulous references. “Blindingly obvious” is not the same as _post hoc, ergo propter hoc_ which is a logical fallacy. When you have done as much research as Dr Dapena, you can come back and tell me about it. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

[@david2804me]

@@thethirdman225 Now it sounds as if you are getting cross that your pompous, superficial use of latin is not convincing anyone....in fact, your use of that particular notion in this context is a 'non sequitur'. Remember that form is not as important as substance...and your arguments lack the latter. If you have nothing concrete to explain why no one has used the straddle technique in top flight competition for 40+ years then you will sound less silly if you stop arguing 'in the wind'.