High Jump Complete Technique Instruction - Brad Kearns

[@midnitescott]

Nicely done. After years jumping and coaching I couldn’t do better.

[@lalithkumarawanniarachchiw715]

Your teaching is very important , thank s 💖🙏🙏

[@IbrahimIssoufouDjanjouna-it5ct]

Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo

[@gailkearns1]

Good for you. Congratulations

[@luxgordhan70]

One of the best videos on high jump I have seen. Congratulations 🎈 You covered almost all the most important parts of the high jump in One video. Awesome 😎👍

[@brad.kearns]

Wow, thanks very much Lux, I appreciate that!!

[@niccolocecchinato3296]

the best high jump technique video i've ever seen!!

[@NotMat2]

fantastic breakdown, the amount of detail was great

[@gouldinggamer5886]

amazing video, i got 4,2 last time yes I know that's bad but that's my first ever meet ever. And this should help me alot

[@manifesto2K]

Great video! well done. Thanks for sharing

[@ingonyama-giveitatry4966]

Thank you.good work

[@porthmeor1]

Thanks Brad..excellent...love the passion!

[@brad.kearns]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@marjeanstalewski859]

Thanks for this video. I’m trying to teach my eighth grader to do is high jump…… I still hold my high school record 30 yrs later….5 7

[@brad.kearns]

wow 5'7" that's awesome!

[@henkschilder2374]

Thank you ! it's a very fine lesson!

[@brad.kearns]

Glad you liked it!

[@dahammer911]

Thanks Brad! Hope to employ these tips in Tampere next month.

[@brad.kearns]

Go champ Go! 60+ raise raise raise the bar!

[@rasheedflowers8170]

Very helpful!

[@sophiesjodin3989]

This is the best!

[@MR.CLEAN777]

New female world record set just a couple days ago!

[@1kconkel]

Do you have a video on how to create the "J" and measure take off?

[@thethirdman225]

Try Simon Hunt's channel, of Gregg Blanchard.

[@realascanb222]

Are you Jamies old coach? If so, I have been to dinner with you, Jamie, and other friends. This was in about 2000. If this is you (or isnt), I'm totally impressed that you can get over a bar. I tried 7 years ago and you would never know I was a good jumper back in the day.

[@brad.kearns]

Jamie who? I coached middle schoolers that's about it. Jamie Nieto was an Olympic jumper from Sacramento in 2004. NOT his coach ha ha! Yeah its hard to compete in high jump over the years, easy to get injured!

[@thethirdman225]

'...the most beautiful and complex of all athletic events...' I'm with you on that. It's also the toughest mentally. By the way, if you're going to talk about the CoM advantages of the flop over the bar, you need to talk about the CoM advantages of the straddle take off. The point is that bar clearance is not very technique is not very important. The two techniques are about equally efficient and this was shown admirably well by Dr Jesus Dapena, who is a retired biomechanist and human movement specialist from the University of Illinois. Dr Dapena was an advisor to the US team and worked with people like 2011 World Champion Jesse Williams. The reason people use the flop universally these days is that it's easier to teach and learn and results come more quickly. I suspect that flop jumpers also suffer fewer injuries, though both are very hard on his and knees. As I found out. You can teach someone to be a moderately competent flop jumper in about six to eight weeks. To achieve the same with the straddle will generally take a couple of years. That said, if someone came to me and they could not master the flop for some reason and they had good hip and leg flexibility, I'd be happy to teach them to straddle.

[@brad.kearns]

Yes its fascinating to reflect on the now defunct straddle. One expert proposed that since the straddle record is ~7'8" 2.34m from 1978 that is reasonable to assume humans could improve 4" in 45 years and that we'd have an 8' / 2.45m straddle jump by now!! "easier to teach" that's a good reason. I like watching Willie Banks 60+ doing a three-step straddle approach and setting records!

[@thethirdman225]

@@brad.kearns The time taken from _ab initio_ to reasonably competent flop jumper is going to keep a lot more people in the game. Being easier to learn is a huge draw card. The straddle requires a lot more committment and time. Most don't want that, especially if they're seeing others getting results before they do. A lot of people misinterpret what I'm saying as "The straddle is better and we should all give up the flop". Plainly, I'm not saying this (and for the record, neither did you). I'm just saying that a lot of the advantages of the flop are countered by advantages in the straddle, particularly the takeoff. But it is harder to learn and I doubt if the skillset exists to teach it today. I doubt we'll see any world class jumpers using it again. But never is a long time. Going back to Vladimir Yashchenko, it's kind of distressing to realise that he jumped 2.35 as a 20 year old and suffered a horrendous knee injury shortly afterwards that ended his career. He died, aged 40, of alcoholism. I think we are entitled to wonder where he might have ended up. Maybe 2.38-2.40? We can only guess. It is a tragic story.

[@cows3567]

If I can scissor kick 4’6” at about 5’1” what should I be able to get with good technique?

[@lucky.crat3129]

what the hell

[@cows3567]

@@lucky.crat3129 ?

[@austinbolde9213]

i scissor 4'6 and i can clear 5'1 with pretty mid technique

[@cows3567]

@@austinbolde9213 thanks

[@ed1tz468]

I scissor 5,4 and pr 6'2

[@WareMemories]

so Brad are you the current record holder in your age class? when is the next competition for the record?

[@brad.kearns]

No I am not a record holder. the age group records are amazing. for example the record in my age group 55-59 is about 6'7" held by German Carlo Thranhardt who is in the top-5 ranking all time high jumpers from his 7'11" clearance back in his prime as Olympic athlete