High Jump History (story of the backwards jump)

[@BRChristiansen184h]

Sotomayor didn't jump 2.42 at the Olympics in Barcelona 1992. He won, but the height was 2.34 - not even an Olympic record. He beat Patrick Sjöberg's record on another occasion and went on to jump 2.45, a record which still stands today.

[@muhashevliw8111]

The great Javier Sotomayor , I will never forget that day he broke the world record, since I was already a huge fan of track and field, this was one time that really marked me. I still look at it like one of the biggest achievements in sports.

[@parkerclay]

It was for me too...unless he tested positive for PEDS :-(

[@GamingVlogsbulo2101]

Fosbury flop not backwards jump

[@uncjim]

Thanks for this. John Thomas was my idol (until taken down in the 1960 Olympics) and lead me to joining my high school track team. My highest jump was a cool 5'9" which, believe it or not, was a dual meet record..(circa 1965). Of course, Dick Fosbury's genius changed everything.

[@HoopsMovement]

cool man. wayyy back!

[@uncjim]

@@ColonelSpankysLostBattalion Ha! Great and unexpected question. I didn’t think anybody noticed. Some of the high schools that we went to had sawdust. It was murder as I landed on my back. My school had foam rubber.

[@uncjim]

@@ColonelSpankysLostBattalion Our school had a large thick piece the size of a mattress. I asked the coach if I could use it for the summer between my Junior and Senior years. I set up a pit in my backyard and just loved it. Did you jump?

[@uncjim]

@@ColonelSpankysLostBattalion Haha..cool. Nice talking to you!

[@edwardclark2653]

The American Bob Avant maximized straddle head first bar (entire upper torso below bar axis) clearance methodology in the early 1960s. Earlier Swedish straddle high jumpers used this bar clearance system from roughly 1956 to early 1960s. Shavlakadze (1), Brumel (2), and Viktor Bolshov (4) won the gold, silver Rome Olympics high jump medals and fourth place with new system technology (speed-strength application). The American John Thomas (3) captured the bronze medal with the dated approach and bar clearance methodology. In terms of high jump mechanics Brumel and the Russian high jump architect/genius (censored 300 page manual) were the high jump standard. The later Roger Federer tennis mechanics mastery are so similar, but in a completely different athletic discipline. I see definite similarities between the athletic systems that developed both of these remarkable athletes!

[@huguesdesesquelles7252]

Il aurait probablement pu rivaliser avec les meilleurs Fosburistes de son époque, dont Wessig à Moscou en 1980 et Moegenburg à Los Angeles en 1984, si une blessure au genou n'avait pas mis un terme à sa carrière en 1979, à l'âge de 20 ans.

[@danielmarshall8262]

There’s more to the story of Dwight Stones and the rain in 1976.. most left footed jumpers approach the bar from the right side when using the flop method. They run in a mostly straight line, leap, then flop. But Dwight was unique. He approached the bar from the left side, then did a sudden sharp turn somewhere between five and ten meters in front of the bar, and angling back the other way, so his body was in the typical position when he addressed the bar. The damp ground didn’t bother the other jumpers much because their approaches were relatively straight, but the dampness really impacted Dwight when he made his sharp turn. He argued with the officials, and declined to continue jumping and risk injury. After the Polish kid apparently won the competition, Dwight came back and asked for one more jump, which was his right. He would have to jump to a higher height than the kid, and he had already used up two of his three allowed misses. The ground was drier at this point, and he got off a good jump, but he just ticked the bar and it came down…..

[@thethirdman225]

Stones’ runup was little different from those of Jacek Wzola or Greg Joy. While there have been other events where one side of the runway has been drier than the other (women’s final, Rio, 2016), the fact is that everyone basically has to cope with the same conditions. One day they will favour left foot takeoff, other days they will favour right foot. Some days they don’t favour anyone.

[@adamberg655]

I Loved This Video, One Of The Best At Showing The History Of The High Jump.

[@peterdelmonte9832]

But I remember these styles being scissors as mentioned, then eastern cut-off where the lead leg comes through to land on the same leg…and then straddle, as used universally for years before Dick Fosbury arrived.

[@lualbichiok5755]

Thank you so much for helping young generation to be come best jumper in the world

[@wilhelmw3455]

Yuri Tarmak the 1972 Olympic champion was Estonian and not Russian as stated in this video and there are too many other errors to mention.

[@matierik]

BTW, 1972 Munich, Jüri Tarmak is estonian. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCri_Tarmak

[@thethirdman225]

And Avdeyenko is Ukrainian but jumping for the Soviet Union, not Russia.

[@billyflynn9369]

Harold Osborn looks like Harry potter

[@Soren_Caique_xD]

PR in highjump 1,94cm, long jump 6,42m and i am for sure proud of that….

[@HoopsMovement]

huge!

[@aakla]

You need to land it to claim it.

[@wettydolphin]

anyone a clue what kind of song was used for the last part with jacek wszola. Or what kind of synth they used?

[@HoopsMovement]

nah i dont know

[@ChiuWeiHan]

good video

[@kopryg]

Audeyenko was not from Russia! He was from Ukraine.

[@DarwinDunks]

Thanks. enjoy the video.. :)

[@HoopsMovement]

thanks =)

[@downbntout]

Love it all. Thanks to God for slomo cams.

[@wyattfuerth7098]

for everyone in Drouillard's class www.benchallenger.com/high-jump/history-of-the-high-jump/ www.worldathletics.org/disciplines/combined-events/heptathlon www.worldathletics.org/disciplines/combined-events/decathlon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_jump en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_high_jump_world_record_progression en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_high_jump_world_record_progression translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=TT&authuser=0

[@nicobander2297]

Alma Richards was my Grandpappy. He smoked Thorpe and Horine in the 1912 Stockholm high jump. He showed up as a fluke and won the Gold

[@thethirdman225]

Yuri Tarmak was not from Russia. He was Estonian, competing for the Soviet Union. Gennadiy Avdeyenko is not Russian. He is Ukrainian but competed for the Soviet Union. Russia and the Soviet Union are not interchangeable. Anyone who thinks they are might want to ask themselves what the reaction would be of a Ukrainian person to being called Russian.

[@MrJm323]

So, 1960, in Rome was the last proper high jump competition at the Olympics. Without that silly bed-mat.

[@thethirdman225]

Idiot.

[@octopibingo]

Remember being disappointed in Stones, who seemed like a whiner and not a winner.

[@gophersk]

German athletes were all juiced in the 80s

[@wewokakid3379]

Wondering what technique & body type it will take to clear 9 feet..???

[@thethirdman225]

Nobody uses feet and inches.

[@huguesdesesquelles7252]

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[@ephorntube]

I wonder if this same concept has been tried forward instead of backwards? The human body bends much easier this way. This would be different than the old straddle way. Maybe approach the bar straight on (perpendicular to bar) and make a high arcing dive over the bar and somersault to the back. Because it's more natural to bend this way it may be possible to maintain an even lower average center of gravity and still clear the bar one section of the body at a time. The knees could be the tricky part here as they would be pointed down and not up and could clip the bar. I'm not a jumper has anyone tried this?

[@HoopsMovement]

i assume its been tried, im not a high jumper, u gotta ask a high jump coach

[@IronicHavoc]

Patrick Horn I think it probably does come down to the knees. Your legs would be straight or bent backwards so you can't get a full body arc, nor can you kick your legs up over the bar at the end.

[@Matty-e8r]

I have tried this in school, and the technique was named after me. It was called," The Bamford Corkscrew". Bamford being my surname and corkscrew the name of the technique. Essentially what I did was run at the bar going nearly straight, then when I was virtually fassing the bar, kicked my outer leg up, then leaned over the bar head first and rotated so I landed on my back, which is where the name corkscrew came from

[@thethirdman225]

A well executed dive straddle has as much mechanical advantage as anything. I’d say that’s about as near as anyone has got. But the most important part of the high jump is what is done on the ground, rather than bar clearance technique.

[@thethirdman225]

The roll straddle is basically a forward roll over the bar. Watch Thomas Zacharias channel on KZbin and he shows how it’s done.

[@hankchinaski7803]

You can't have a Pole in a long jump.

[@thethirdman225]

Which is funny because that’s how the pole vault started…

[@Joshhieyify]

Sotomayor was the best ever

[@slideshowtelevision]

Barshim to break his record very soon