Getting a Leg Up: High Jump Explained

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@astronomymagic 12 жыл бұрын

I also loved this video! The biomechanics of our bodies is always a fascinating topic, especially when we analyze athletic ability. Please do another one, these are awesome!

@edwardclark2653 Жыл бұрын

Dr. Dapena is a great high jump technician. There was a Russian athletic cosmonaut that influenced all high jumpers following him, including Dick Fosbury! The athletic genius that instructed him said, "The foundation for high jumps is laid on the ground!"

@12zecharia 12 жыл бұрын

loved this. you guys deserve more subscribers!!!

@MrJm323 2 жыл бұрын

01:10 ....I like how this video completely elides the fact that this change (or "innovation") in high jump jumping style was caused by the ridiculous addition of a GIANT cushion into the landing pit. (In the '50s and '60s, ever greater piles of sand, sawdust, foam pieces were added into the landing pit -- to reduce injuries, such as wrist breaks when jumpers used their arms to help break their falls, etc.; until one day, they just simply put a mid-thigh high or hip high BED into it.) The leaders of international track and field athletics never stopped to consider what the purpose of the high jump is. (Which is to say, if there is any real world physical skill acquired in learning that discipline.) It's like they decided that "we just want the opportunity to break new height records!" and ignore the fact that the LANDING actually MATTERS. Landing is a part of the feat of jumping over obstacles (without the aid of a pole or vaulting spring board -- or with those aids). The technique of SAFELY LANDING from a jump was considered completely unimportant by this time (the 1960s). The question they should have asked themselves is whether it was a good idea to be teaching generations of athletes a skill with absolutely no real world application -- especially considering that it is ABSOLUTELY UNSAFE to LAND ON YOUR NECK AND BACK unless there HAPPENS TO BE a specially designed mat on the opposite side of your obstacle (a fence, a low wall, etc.)!!! Now, you might point to trampolining (where you are obviously launching from and landing on a springing surface). Nevertheless, I think in trampolining it is considered unsafe (even if you are left unharmed) to come down on your NECK or HEAD, and if you come down on your back, you are trained to splay your arms and legs outward to absorb and dissipate the shock (by allowing the impact shock to travel through your limbs and taking some of the shock away from your spine and hips). I think what happened, historically, is that they permitted the thicker cushioning for the pole vaulters (who are obviously reaching greater heights than the high jumpers) and just decided that for convenience sake they would just keep that additional cushioning for the high jumpers. (Originally, pole vaulters also landed on a landing surface roughly level to the launching surface, and as with the high jumpers, only mildly cushioned. They too were expected to land principally on their feet, using their legs to absorb the major part of the shock. But, because they were going over the bar at greater heights, the organizers began adding knee-high cushioning for them to reduce injuries.) Nevertheless, even with pole vaulting (and their understandable need for more substantial cushioning in their event), the judges should INSIST that for their particular vault to qualify they should land feet first -- even though they have those safety mats. (In other words, a vault should be disqualified, or not count as a proper vault, unless the athlete's FEET MAKE CONTACT FIRST on the landing surface before his back, arm, hip, etc.. The feet and legs should be taking most of the shock of landing -- certainly not your neck and back!) The Fosbury Flop was not an innovation to be celebrated, it was rather a sign of the degeneracy of athletics -- as sport increasingly is divorced from developing physical skills having at least SOME relevance to real world situations one may encounter. Jumping and vaulting skills should ALWAYS take into consideration the consequential LANDING as part of the skill set!

@thethirdman225 4 жыл бұрын

Dr Dapena is the man.

@robappell8365 2 жыл бұрын

Dick Fosbury was a great jumper and a pioneer of the new jumping technique...but not the only one in 1968. Please also read about the 15 year old Canadian girl Debbie Brill who is really the CO-INVENTOR of the flop technique independently of Dick Fosbury. I was a college high jumper in the 1980's and am coach now but only stumbled on her story a year ago. Disappointed that she isn't better known and recognized. Would be a great role model for girl/women high jumpers!!