Vladimir Yashchenko (part 1) - Last King of the straddle technique / high jump

[@donnapitre6264]

Солнышко наше! Пока мы живы, ты всегда будешь в наших сердцах! Царствия тебе небесного, Покоритель высот!❤❤❤

[@Endimione17]

He was a great man. He's a symbol. He made me cry.

[@783nata]

Спасибо за видео! Светлая Память!...

[@downtherabbithole1353]

I remember him winning 1978 outdoor European Championship with a jump of 2.30. Is that the jump at 0:23? Anyway he had a magical lift in his jumps, it looked so easy, defaying gravity, very aesthetic. It's so tragic the knee injury ended his career so early and then his premature death, i am convinced that he had jumped at least 2.40 otherwise. Rest in peace.

[@ЛюдмилаКовалевская-г4п]

Красавец немыслимый!

[@Peyresourde]

Found this footage over Yashchenko yesterday evening on a website with old russian tv-streams. It was overwhelming and I started uploading the footage in the same night. I´m glad to share our passion for this magnificent straddler. He was ontop for only two short seasons but made 3 world records. After the records series of knee injurys ends his career and his tragically rest is history.

[@HJ877]

This is amazing, it just about brought a tear to my eye! I've been wanting to see footage of Yashchenko for years, thanks so much for uploading this.

[@723lion]

Legendary legend

[@tellap.1078]

He had the beauty and the lightness of an angel. Poor Yashchka 😢

[@Peyresourde]

Big respect for your medal on 2009 World Youth Championships in Brixen with 2.20m. This is awesome high for a young man of 16 years (Yash jumped 2,12 m with age 16 !). I`m very proud that you visited my Yashchenko Tribute on youtube and wish you all the best for the future.

[@lucaswallo8127]

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[@Mihail99pap]

My friend that video was awsome! I thank you from my heart. I wasn't born when Brumel was a top athlete and I was a small kid when Yashchenko broke the world record.But there is a mystery about them that a cannot explain...

[@ЮрийНиколаевич-б4з]

Такой снимок на 2 минуте и 33сек Это что с чем то Во истину это мгновение можэт то самое ради чего этот парень прожыл свою короткую жизнь Может ради этого момента его ДУША приходила в этот МИР !!! А люди этого не поняли или не прочувствовали ! Царство ему НЕБЕСНОЕ !!!

[@luca6876]

Un vero talento! Spettacolare.

[@SABAPO400]

spettacolare...senza parole...

[@jw3924]

The last hope of the straddle style, ended too early due to a knee injury. What a pity!

[@doriocsetina]

"Ho visto coi miei occhi saltare in alto Due metri e 35 centimetri, Ventrale. A Vladimir Yashchenko. Non so se ci siamo spiegati."

[@ivoryas1696]

That is truly *epic*

[@tashanmy]

The straddle - from another time, another world.

[@awesomefanger]

My friend Thurlis Gibbs jumped against Yashchenko in Richmond Virginia in '77 when he broke Stones record.

[@sc06ip1]

Unfortunately he was forced to stop athletics when he was only 20 years old due to knee injury. I can not imagine how high he could jumped if he was fit...

[@МусаДорбазанов-р3и]

Думаю, что он бы преодолел высоту 250 см и был бы до сих пор для других недосягаем.

[@daviderivieccio4563]

unforgettable vladimir!

[@almazsherbekov424]

Владимир Ященко космический прыгун в высоту талант которог не реализован .был загублен чиновниками от спорта.и исколечен горе спортмедиками светлая ему память

[@ГабитОмаров-г8е]

@@almazsherbekov424 .... Точно !!!

[@guillaumelecam6257]

Great music

[@222mozart]

great thank you

[@ИринаКлимченко-ж7й]

Такого спортсмена загубили... А красавец какой...

[@Peyresourde]

music: Johann Pachelbels Canon in D major

[@gkprivate433]

i think this technique needs to be pursued more. Some jumpers will be taller and leaner or more long legged, and with modern training and strength and analysis I bet they will match the Flop heights

[@FantabMedia]

Absolutely. The record has only gone up 4 inches in 42 years since Yashchenko. I don't think there's any reason to think that if they'd continued with the straddle it couldn't have gone up the same amount or more.

[@mr.sinjin-smyth]

@@FantabMedia Just unfortunate no matter how one looks at it. Both Brumel and Yaschenko never got to achieve full potential due to horrible accidents and injuries. It just was meant for the Fosbury style to take over and succeed. That's just life.

[@Mihail99pap]

WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT VIDEO!!!Awesome and thanks for sharing!!!The only tribute to Yashchenko on youtube.You are great Peyresourde.

[@Mihail99pap]

yes, I agree...even 17 jumps is way too much!! I bet that your best jumps were between 10th and 14th. But with Yashchenko we have the best jump at the 20th time !! (the last was at 2,35)

[@ГабитОмаров-г8е]

С его Внешностью он мог бы быть Актёром спокойно где -нибудь в США .

[@lesya_safronova]

Журналистом тоже мог быть, модель в Италии, но видимо не смог уехать из страны

[@Mihail99pap]

It was a great surprise for me!!But what an unlucky kid!You know he was playing with high jump!Even when he broke the world record in Italy he cleared 2,10 with the third try!

[@Massimo898]

Vladimir the flyer!

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

How high was the first vertical jump? That looked massive!

[@Peyresourde]

This is phenomenal ! You were an activ high jumper in Yashchenkos most successfully saison. For witch country you started? Do you run a competition with him? Can you remember any episodes (sad or beautiful) with Yash, that can be of special interest for all admirers of this mystical man?

[@Mihail99pap]

Brumel has a sad story also :(

[@Peyresourde]

Selection of personal records with age 15: JACEK WSZOLA 1971 (15 J) 1,60 GERD WESSIG, 1974 (15 J) 1,75 VALERI BRUMEL 1957 (15 J) 1,76 Peyresourde 1988 (15J) 1,80 IGOR PAKLIN 1978 (15 J) 1,85 ZHU JIANHUA 1978 (15 J) 1,95 JAVIER SOTOMAYOR 1982 (15 J) 2,00 DIETMAR MÖGENBURG 1976 (15 J) 2,05 V. YASHCHENKO 1974 (15 J) 2,03 PATRIK SJÖBERG 1980 (15 J) 2,07 German record 1982 (15 J) 2,10

[@huguesdesesquelles7252]

Only 1.60 for Wszola, are you sure? Given that he wan the 1976 Olympics with 2.25 aged 20, it would mean a 65 cm progression in 5 years!

[@jeanpi314159]

I'm a bit surprised by these results. as I was 13, at school, I was able to jump may times 1,65m wiith a scissor jump taking a frontal momentum. ( at the beginning of the year, I jumped 1,45m and them improved thanks to our teacher who made the lessons as challenges. However, this teacher never told me it was impressive; Once he told his colleague, amazed : oh, this is just instinctive : (I was upset). This old teacher tried to teach us ( we were two pupils loving high jump) the straddles technic. But it was really hard : without momentum, making a ventral, I jumped up to 1,55m, but with momentum, 1,65m My best jump was 1,72m. Later, another teacher told me I could reach 1,90m "with more technic"but I never did. I sprained my ankle at volley ball ( my dry jump was 85 cm and another player let his foot under mine while I was going down)...My ankle was weak.

[@HJ877]

Perhaps you could try and find some footage of Brumel on that website too :)

[@telkwa]

Do you have the full video of his standing vertical test jump at the very start? That looked massive.

[@shaolinsecrets]

Yes very impressive

[@joys8634]

@@shaolinsecrets looked only to be 2ft lmao

[@crabb9966]

@@joys8634 he is very tall so it looks less and that's morr than 2 feet bruh

[@Mihail99pap]

Yashchenko:(russian newspaper) ' I can not go on competitions. I want but cannot. Because I go to bed, and the dream does not go: mentally I run up, make a start, I clear the bar. And so till the morning: I jump, I jump... ' He was a sad man....

[@jzs0115]

love it how this is one of the world greatest high jumpers and all people can do is ask what the song is called XD

[@Siberius-]

Out of every single comment here (currently 74 not including my comment), the only mention of the song at all, other than your comment, is from one single comment..... By the way it is apparently "Pachelbel's Canon" (don't care enough to verify).

[@jzs0115]

@@Siberius- mate I commented this 7 years ago get over it 😂

[@crabb9966]

@@jzs0115 😂

[@LPCLASSICAL]

@@Siberius- yes it is Pachelbel - transcribed for piano from the chamber strings original.

[@Siberius-]

​@@LPCLASSICAL - Oh very nice. 👌

[@jon-bon-govi]

ОН - КРАСОТА НАШЕГО МИРА!!!

[@GamingVlogsbulo2101]

Rip

[@javerjimbau6309]

sad that his career ended so prematurely

[@JPN55]

This is how i jumped in high school -- actually looks kind of funny now.

[@dimaua1]

Volodymir is one of the outstanding Ukrainian. Unfortunately it is no longer with us.

[@lMobiuscidl]

They should remove the mat and come back to this imo.

[@matthewgottlieb2718]

I don't think the flop is a better technique. The man was 6-3 and jumped 7-8; 17 inches over his head.

[@lMobiuscidl]

It is better but it depends on the mat. The rest of techniques are much more natural. The mat should be removed.

[@TOOOUCHPAD]

That is not even close to the record of the highest jump over your height. Stefan Holm for example is only 5'11 and jumped 7'10.

[@thethirdman225]

+Matthew Gottlieb You're right; it isn't. Biomechanist Dr Jesus Dapena, an expert on the high jump, pointed out that the straddle takeoff is more efficient but the flop clearance makes up for the difference. In truth, we should be seeing an almost equal spread of the two techniques and the straddle should not have died. What killed it was the fact that the flop is easier to learn.

[@thethirdman225]

+TOOOUCHPAD _"That is not even close to the record of the highest jump over your height. Stefan Holm for example is only 5'11 and jumped 7'10."_ I'm not sure what your point is.

[@thethirdman225]

Dragomir Ronilac Stop trolling. I was a jumper, a state level coach and a sports science graduate. What are your qualifications genius?

[@Yodaismycopilot]

Rollers just amaze me. I am compelled to wonder if he might have jumped higher by flopping.

[@thethirdman225]

Yodaismycopilot Not necessarily.

[@crabb9966]

@@thethirdman225 why? Your upper body is higher up and thereofre its easier to clear that and then the legs, here he has to get his whole body kver in one movement never being below the limit

[@thethirdman225]

@@crabb9966 Fair question. High jump technique is more than just bar clearance. In fact, almost all of what matters in high jump happens on the ground. The straddle take off is more efficient than the flop so there is not very much difference in total efficiency. The reason for this is that the CoG is higher when the jumper leaves the ground in the straddle. So what the straddle jumper loses over the bar is gained in takeoff. Even then, you should take a look at Thomas Zacharias’s forward roll style of straddle, which gives nothing away to the flop in bar clearance. The reason everyone uses the flop is that it is easier to learn and requires nothing remarkable in terms of flexibility. It can take a couple of years to become proficient in the straddle but you can get good results with the flop in a couple of months. But in the end, all jumpers are different. Not everyone has a big back arch and those who do often have trouble coming out of it and hit the bar with the back of their thigh. There are also some jumpers who would get better results using the straddle, believe it or not.

[@crabb9966]

@@thethirdman225 I see, there must be some difference though. And he could jump higher if he didn't fet injured so early in his career

[@crabb9966]

Get*

[@Mihail99pap]

I don't know the website....

[@HJ877]

Oh and whats the music??

[@Peyresourde]

Every admirer of Yash believe this, but what's your source?

[@kicksapien1335]

I wonder how high he can jump backwards

[@thethirdman225]

Wouldn't make any difference. The point is not whether he jumped "backwards" as you say or forwards, the most important point of any jump is the run up and take off. Doing the flop doesn't guarantee you will jump higher any more than using the straddle does. If you don't get off the ground well it won't matter what technique you use, you won't jump high.

[@Mihail99pap]

He jumped at that evening 20 times!!!!Any high jumper Knows that this is not normal!Mogenburg needs 8-10 jumps to win and that's it!

[@thethirdman225]

Mihail99pap Bondarenko used about 5.

[@aidanmartin1985]

What's that song?

[@markdenyer8072]

pachelbel's canon

[@dimaua1]

you know how to think?

[@bradenbaseball]

That's amazing I can jump 1m 20

[@inspektormax16]

That's nice i can jump 10metres

[@lowmanfromimotski]

WOW *:*

[@Peyresourde]

dito ;-)

[@snakerman2612]

with his elevation power he'd be doing 2.50m using the flop

[@thethirdman225]

Steve from Yellowstone No. The flop is not a miracle technique. The two styles have their merits. The flop is easier to learn and results come quickly. It has an arguably more efficient bar clearance. The straddle is harder to learn but has a more efficient take off. The point is that it is not a question of which technique you use. To jump high, you have to get off the ground effectively first.

[@ЮрийВетров-у3р]

Музыкант фальшивит...

[@edgiosano8524]

Imagine what he could have cleared using The Flop!

[@thethirdman225]

Wouldn't have made any difference. There are advantages to both techniques and they tend to suit different body types. A straddle jumper needs to be flexible and strong while a flop jumper needs to be fast. The relative efficiencies of the two styles cancel each other out. The main reason the flop has become the dominant technique is that it is much easier to learn and results come more quickly.

[@kelamuni]

wrong. flop jumpers don’t need to be fast. check out Canadian gold medalist Derek Drouin. not fast.

[@thethirdman225]

kelamuni Don't give me that "wrong" stuff. I know what I'm talking about. By most standards, Derek Drouin is fast. Certainly faster than a straddle jumper or a hybrid jumper like Jan Zvara. Look at the way he accelerates in the last five strides and tell me he's slow. I estimate he would be traveling at about 8-8.5 metres per second at that point.

[@thethirdman225]

Dragomir Ronilac What’s with the attitude? How do you know what I know? Former jumper, sports science qualification, state level coach. Now you give me your version of how this works and let’s see what you know.

[@MarkJohnson-zy4fd]

Obviously, you have never high jumped. Imagine if he not been injured at 20. He may have jumped 2.40 or higher and the history of the event would be turned on its’ head. The flop and the straddle are different and call for different skill sets. IMO, neither is inherently superior.

[@carloluo3511]

Swimming

[@натпусева-р5ы]

В Америке миллиардером бы был, у нас квартиру дали.

[@ГабитОмаров-г8е]

И Не говорите.... А Каким он был Внешне Красивым.... Он бы мог спокойно быть Моделью и Актёром....😢😢

[@anzhelicasuprun575]

Чтобы стать миллионером в США, нужно вкалывать, чего Владимир терпеть не мог.

[@lesya_safronova]

Жертва режима

[@pasqualealaia732]

Atleta dal talento immenso che non ha avuto il successo e la fama che avrebbe largamente meritato.

[@ЛевМурашов-т7ы]

Ужасная судьба