The Training Secret Behind Cuba’s High Jump Legend | Arriba Cuba

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The incredible story of how current world record holder Javier Sotomayor and a team of Cuban psychologists trained in mental jumps.
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[@olivierferraris4094]

I was high jumper (2,05 m, 1,65m tall !), We had mentally préparation before contest. That’s really important. If the jump is in your mind, you ´ll do it !

[@rolamustafa8451]

How did you mentally prepare?

[@LimKaamen]

I love every second of this! Much love from Central West Africa!

[@elcubanoorgulloso6598]

Vamos mi bella isla! Arriba mi Cuba!!

[@jaimeavila7151]

Grande Soto, ejemplo de voluntad , talento , empeño, podrá haber recursos de todo tipo , pero nada supera el espíritu humano , la grandeza de este espíritu que dio a Cuba grandes triunfos y ejemplos para el mundo. Viva Cuba la bella.

[@YarysleidisCirilo]

Un gran ejemplo para cualquier atleta💯💯💥

[@bryantzerrato8255]

imagine theses athletes with the same facilities and sports science as some of the most developed nations ...they would be unstoppable

[@Marco-pf1mb]

In some nations there are new technologies but an athlete from Cuba has a body that an European hasn't

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

NOT REALLY.

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

@@Marco-pf1mb Actually the Russians are white! And are better than this Cuban.

[@joseyuyarimilianmartinelli750]

@@captainamericaamerica8090 no?

[@LimKaamen]

@@captainamericaamerica8090 I love Russia. Just wondering why no Russian could beat the Cuban's world record in 25 years.

[@adrianavendramin]

Perfect and interesting!

[@blotzkrog]

an absolute legend

[@sirmontecristo2808]

Soto, very nice guy

[@saby76012]

My idol

[@realser9]

Muy intezante 🙌

[@user-vv4fu8sv6w]

Сразу захотелось работать тренером на Кубе!!!

[@gladiadorpolo]

Yo también tengo un secreto. Yo salté hasta la luna... Mentalmente.

[@Osiwan960]

mind programming at his best!

[@hackerlife7806]

A very humble face

[@lazaromolina8665]

Mentalmente yo puedo saltar hasta el cielo 🤗🤭🤔👌

[@michaelj.hurley5750]

Two Excercise Critical Results! 1. Standing Highjump ... 2. Stretch Lower Back Ten Minutes Twice Daily Using Chair Support ... 《Grade Ten SMCS'76 Toronto Results 5'6" ~ 6'4" Four Weeks ...》

[@ShivaaVibes]

Good

[@donnas7240]

I have no mental game help, I'm a crier too especially at big meets, not a good sight 😂 I hit a plateau and it killed my mental game last season, forward we go

[@MegaDreamOo]

Good luck. Nothing is impossible ✈️🔥

[@juansilot894]

prefiero ser el primero en una aldea que no el segundo en roma (napoleon Bonaparte) 😁😄😉😊

[@lasaroseoane7544]

Mi paisano de limonar matanzas

[@nurs_7967]

сначала победа в своем разуме,уверенность в невидимом,а потом победа воплощается в реальном мире.

[@diabloi627]

Ку

[@Bek.0223]

В точку. Надо запомнить твои слова

[@nurs_7967]

@@Bek.0223 ого, 2 года прошло

[@Bek.0223]

@@nurs_7967 это разве срок...моргнул несколько раз и жизнь пронеслась перед глазами

[@nurs_7967]

@@Bek.0223 ты прав, просто не помню чтобы я такое писал на самом деле😄

[@jordangroff8978]

3:49 Felix Savon?

[@raulsardinas2584]

Yes

[@adriastamayo]

si jajaajaj

[@NBAAmerikalisi]

Mind control and belive are more effective than strength , power and plyometric training . When I tore my acl , after surgery doctor said your knees are so weak and other negative things but every day I pray to Allah and I trust him . All day Everyday I dreamed to be successful , to be stronger , faster , jump higher and have a bulletproof knees . After 1.5 years my surgery Now I have a 41-inch vertical jump And I'm running at 60 m short distance 7.08 (not bad) . Thanks to Allah.

[@darienduranza1874]

Cuba small island but be care-full big on sports

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

RUSSIANS TAUGHT THEM 🐆🐯🐯🔱🔱🔱

[@kevingonzalez9191]

@Captain America America Even if they did,Cuba has made a lot with less.

[@wilfredomejia5561]

Si grandes e inigualables atletas ,admiro mucho esta isla en especial las espectaculares morenas del caribe tricampeonas olímpicas en voleibol 🏐

[@ajithkumar.v6900]

Nice ŕ

[@Hodophilevlog]

Nice

[@user-fg1nv7tw1m]

When played in full screen, the screen turns totally black for a few seconds, thus only voices heard. Please fix it

[@ludmilarojas8344]

the best

[@giavien07vinaphone69]

Ludmila Rojas eat shitr

[@nathanbrassington6445]

steve .

[@snowflakehub6878]

No tengo english ;9

[@hackerlife7806]

looks like david blaine

[@trevorregay9283]

I believe there was also some PED rumors on this guy

[@divadcruz3788]

Trevor Regay no ped he use cocaine but never use peds

[@isised1]

CIA intox

[@AxelPRC]

I heard that too but turns out it was cocaine not PEDs

[@jdee8267]

Yes nandrolone 1999

[@allisaboutlearning7202]

give its version in hindi

[@dwaynearlocinco1932]

Nc one

[@Chicko_Perez]

Genes

[@adriastamayo]

hard work

[@thenugents9040]

Baaaaad video

[@likesingh4486]

Speaks in hindi plz

[@trevorregay9283]

I think he may have mind controlled that high jump bar to stay on its pegs....or to be really pliable and waiver up and down as he brushed and laid on it as he went over.....I'm not so sure his record will ever be beaten unless someone else can mind control the bar like that to keep it on its pegs......anyone else hitting the bar like that and it easily comes off....hard to accept his world record when you can hit and skim the bar like that and it somehow manages to stay on....

[@rosabal56]

Being Cuban, I feel very sad for our athletes, they have so much potential yet the communist government drives the Cuban people deeper into poverty and food scarcity. Cuba's infrastructure development came to a stall in 1959, after 1959 Cuba has been stuck in time.

[@Ivan-hh1ed]

You are somwrong about everything, because the government we have these achievements. Before 59 the government didn’t support the sport . A poverty, poverty is because American blockade!

[@pierrevorster970]

So steriods have nothing to do with it. Give a break. Cuba was the pharmacy for the old USSR

[@elcubanoorgulloso6598]

Pierre Vorster So if Cuba's good at sport it means it's because of steroids? Give me a break jealous boy. :)

[@jefui1]

El Cubano Orgulloso y’all aren’t really good at track and field now...

[@MegaDreamOo]

@@jefui1 cuz nothing is permanent, Kenyans were not great at middle distance at the past.

[@Gabriel-rn4ut]

@@jefui1 Well, maybe this guys think different: Osleydis Menendez, Yumisleidys Cumba, Dayron Robles, Pedro Pablo Pichardo, Orlando Ortega, Yargelis Savigne, Aniel Garcia, Alexis Copello, Denia Caballero, Leonel Suarez, Yarelis Barrios, Yarisley Silva, Yipsi Moreno, etc.

[@saucepoisfosse]

@@elcubanoorgulloso6598 are you seriously saying Cuba didn't enjoy steroids from the state sponsored programs of the USSR and russia