ahhhh here are the days where veritasium gets only 20 likes in the comments. in the future, know that if you reply to your videos, you get get atleast a thousand likes mate.
R.I.P. Dick Fosbury. Just amazing that one kid in Oregon discovered this while all the world's top high jumpers and coaches thought that you had to propel almost your whole body over the bar at the same time.
I used to do the high jump in high school. And my god was it fun, such a rush. When all eyes are on you and you have to perform without any previous training it feels like your heart is gonna explode, and that extremely fast heartbeat fills you up with way more energy then you could probably imagine.
Good stuff. In 1975, 39 years ago in my 8th grade track meet I cleared the bar at 5 feet, five and one quarter inches (~1.66m), beating the standing school record by one quarter of an inch. I approached from the right and used a classic western-roll. Cheers, Mark PS: I still have the blue ribbon.
Thanks Alex, and all the others. Yeah, that was my big hooray as I never made my High School team. But it is something I recall with a smile and fun to hear from others. Cheers, Mark
Watching videos like this has made me a better high jumper in high school. We never had a coach to teach high jump so I've been watch videos like this since I was a freshman. I'm a senior now and my junior year I became a state qualifier. I placed 11th in the state which is pretty amazing I think. It all thanks to videos like this.
I'm 13, in year 8, don't know what that is in grades. Last year, when I was 12 I managed 1.45m but we've only just resumed jumping now it's summer again so it's taking a while to get back into it. It's fun though!!
I think that it would also interact with the skydiver theory because If you try to land on your feet you will fall faster but land on your back you will fall slower
I remember when Dick Fosbury was jumping at meets leading up to the olympics. People thought his technique was so odd. Lots of people laughed at him. It is a classic example of "thinking outside the box." Looks like he had the last laugh!
Straddle and western roll were two separate techniques. The western roll involved bringing the trail leg up beside the lead leg and clearing the bar on the jumpers side, inefficient but safe for landing in sand or saw dust. A master straddle jumper like Brumel kept his centre of gravity below the bar. the real advantage of the flop or Brill bend is that the jumper can approach at a higher rate of speed.
A few things that were totally misrepresented here.... 1. the flop is about somersaulting. It is actually a forward and side flip. 2. The straddle is actually still valid because of the strong arm and leg actions. 3. The center of mass is very close to the bar, but the straddle has a higher COM takeoff position. The flop allows you to run faster and is maybe more forgiving on the knees.
The story of the Fosbury flop is fascinating. Apparently the guy who it's named after was a high jumper who consulted a physicist about how he could improve his high jumping technique. The physicist realised how you could jump higher if your centre of gravity was kept lower during the jump and the jumper destroyed everyone at the olympics to win gold. By the next olympics, almost all high jumpers had copied the technique. I think that's roughly how the story goes.
More physics needed. I was surprised that he didn't know what you mentioned about the technique. I remember watching a video about the guy who first tried it. They thought he was nuts but when they saw his success, everyone started using it!
With an expert jumper as this one, the movement is so musical and so harmonious between different parts of the body, so gentle and to achieve that motion and trajectory the human mind must be as alert and as sharp and as strong as any muscle in the body. The timing must be perfect. To me a good high jumper seems to need the same conditions as a power engineer who goes to achieve only one harmonic from an electric generator and that is all the energy must be restricted to the fundamental waveform and not the harmonics. In fact when athletes and dancers, including ballet dancers perform their bit, one can immediately see if the performer is wasting energy in adding unnecessary motions. Even in horse racing, one can detect a good racing horse through noting that the horse's movement does not contain any unnecessary " harmonic" except the very fundamental motion, as energy will be wasted. There are many clumsy people who produce unnecessary motions in their manner of walking and running, and the graceful movements seems to win all the time. There seems to be an economy of energy in grace and elegance.
The straddle is not a bad technique allowing 2m35 in 1978. I understood that it is more difficult to learn than the Fosbury flop. The other advantage of the Fosbury flop is the high approach speed allowed. Good straddlers actually have a lower parabola to jump, I guess because your back is essentialy straight on the Fosbury flop
In grade 8 we had a multi-school track meet and I saw all three different techniques. At the professional level very few methods are competitive (that goes for any highly competitive thing that isn't a creative discipline, and even those narrow at the highest levels), but at slightly less competitive levels there's a lot of fun to be had trying out different ways
The Fosbury Flop is such an ungainly maneuver, useful for jumping only when there's plenty of padding for the fall. I much more enjoyed the old scissors kick which resembles more a non-track event jump, how humans actually could clear an obstacle "out there" rather than in the coddled environment of a track and field meet.
I would love to see an evolution of that jump, after all is almost 40 years since its been in use, I wonder if there any obscure technique out there that's better but not in mainstream use..
So when doing the high jump in school I guess you want to try whatever you can to start off with as high center of mass as possible and end with as low center of mass as possible to maximise efficiency.
Loving these videos, Derek! Thanks to your vid about sailing, I'm teaching my perschool kids a bit about Hunter as part of our Olympics theme, what with him being a local and all (I teach in Downtown Vancouver).
I did high jump at primary school. I was freakishly tall for my age, but had poor technique. On those magical moments where I managed to flukishly get the technique right I could get WAY higher than the rest of the time. Can't even remember what my personal best was now. I also had this weird thing where I was jumping from the wrong side based on my handedness - I'm right handed but it felt more natural jumping from the left-handed position.
i started doing highjump about 3 years ago, i was about 12 or 11 at the time. When i ran up to the bar i just naturally did the Fosbury flop, like it was in my instincts. That day i got a old record of 1.45 metres, last year was my highest jump with a height of about 1.60-1.65 metres at the age of 14. When i was 12 i was about 5'7", last year i was 6ft and couldn't dunk, now i'm 15, 6'1 and can dunk, hopefully my record gets higher next year.
I thought your left knee was going to break at 4:09. haha I'm a physical educator, big fan of biomechanics and how physics in general can be used to improve human movement increasing it's performance and safety. Great video. Thank you.
Well I'm not an athlete in any way, but as far as i know, you start swinging your arms and one leg upwards while still on the ground. then when you are in the air you will stop the upwards motion of your arms and leg, to use the kinetic energy from the upwards motion to propel your entire body upwards --> jumping higher :)
I like the contrast between the athlete elegant jump and derek's drunk slow motion car crashes XD I like how you can make any topic fascinating! I saw this video on my homepage and thought for a moment: "sports video? no thanks" but then I remembered it was veritasium so it wasn't going to be any regular sports video
Dick Fosbury devised his Flop technique while he was in high school, in Medford, Oregon, about a mile from my house. His coach, Bill Bowerman later teamed up with a guy named Phil Knight and they co-founded a shoe company called Nike.
We did this in gym for a track and field unit. I'm 5' 7" and my top height cleared was 5' 1". So for someone who had never done this before, a half foot under my height isn't that bad.
Ooooh, I didn't know about the old techniques! That's so interesting! I actually learned to do the flop back in school... couldn't jump all that high but I was proud to know how to do it right at least. Most of the time I just chickened at the last moment, though. x) It's so completely against your instincts to jump backwards and head first no matter how well you know there's a soft landing.
I 14 and I use the flossberry flop my record is 6 foot 1 inch I tried the sissor kick and I got to 5 foot 5 inches, the scissor kick is the most challenging but the fly is very flat is most accurate for air
because if you take off on the left leg on that side your right leg will be the one that will ultimately go over the bar first. it makes it harder if you take off with the right leg
yah and it came out in IGCSE physics exam asking why height that used to calculate gravitational potential energy of the athlete is less than the height of the bar.
I was taught the scissors and the fosbury but I'd wager the fosbury flop is a little better. That was the technique I used when I used to high jump which was aeons ago. It gave me a massive adrenaline rush being launched in the air like that lol.
This is pretty old, and the chances of someone actually seeing and getting this are pretty slim, but I'll put it out there anyway: double bloody decker!
I am 13 and my personal record is 1,45 meters. Im a girl. And i saw something kind of wrong he did. He should come closer to the bar when he does the flopper. It really works. Maybe not at that hight. But tell me? Am I a bad high jumper?
At the speed you are going to clear these heights you have to jump further away from the bar because if you jump close and are going fast your forward momentum will just throw you at the bar and won't allow enough time to reach the desired height
Fosbury Flop is the best because arquing your back over the bar you move the gravity centre of your body, so it let you overcome a bar which is even 10cm over the gravity centre. In ventral rolling it´s no more than 5cm. However, in scissors style the gravity centre is 15cm over the bar. So, with a good Fosbury technique you have to jump about 25cm more than scissors style. In my case 2,15 Flop and 1,90 scissors
Can't at higher school competitions. I try to make sure two foot jumpers don't get selected for the next level, Zones. I coach boys from age 9 to flop. I think it is easier for the boys to get going with than scissors. I use scissors in training to keep the jumper vertical on the way up. I started with Josh when he started at Sydney High when he was 13. Some time ago I know.
I actually like the one where you land on your feet in that it represents what someone might do in a real life situation, not just a very specific sport. Maybe it's not as fun to watch because people won't get as high, but it could be it's own classification of jumping sport. And put saw dust back down.
I know high jump is about getting as high as possible but jumping and landing with your feet is the truest jump in my opinion. It's the hardest and if you can do it as high as you can it's amazing, the straddle and Fosbury techniques feel like a little bit of "cheating" for me. I can do the Fosbury Flop but I still can't do the Scissor kick jump nicely.
But more safe. I brake my lef tankle with scissor kick jump on 1 70 warm up..... its luck im a right leg jumper. So after 1 year I won a county championship :)
I'm here because over the past months I've really been looking into going to the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games for for high jump from inspiration to my favourite athlete, I've just turned 16 last month and I'm not even close to being the height of the high jumpers I'm between 170-180m, is it possible for me to to jump as high as they do even though I'm not as tall? I believe so if I get a good amount of training in because I really want to jump with these legends, maybe I'll grow throughout the next months
his comments about the center of mass are not strictly accurate. The Straddle method also doesn't necessarily put all of your center of mass over the bar at the same time. Depending on ones body structure, I think the straddle could do with some resurgence and more technique.
What about the long jump? There are a lot of thechniques. The world record holder used the hitchkick 3,5 step technique, but there were alo good jumpers using the hang technique or less steps in the air
Yeah it was tailored for an American audience (we really should adopt the metric system) but kinda cool. He should interview Steve Hooker, the Australian record holder.
I see one thing he is doing wrong. Correct me if I am wrong. I see that he is looking at the bar while jumping instead of his head more back to increase the arch and kick.
height doesn't have anything to do with the high jump because it is the distance off the ground one can JUMP, not the distance off the ground one can REACH, like basketball-where height does matter.
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By not having to raise your center of mass higher, you use less energy to clear the bar thus you can jump higher is what this video is stating about the physics of high jumping.
I could do a front flip over 1.40, and could flop 1.60 before I quit in I think Gr. 9. I bet you could go just as high if not higher with a straight dead on approach and a front flip if you had the balls, it just gets scary as you go higher.
You don't have to take off on your left foot you can approach from either side and take off on either foot as long as its with only one foot I myself approach from the left side and jump off of my right foot
he cleared at least 2m on the day, and possibly 2.05m
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R.I.P. Dick Fosbury. Just amazing that one kid in Oregon discovered this while all the world's top high jumpers and coaches thought that you had to propel almost your whole body over the bar at the same time.
I used to do the high jump in high school. And my god was it fun, such a rush. When all eyes are on you and you have to perform without any previous training it feels like your heart is gonna explode, and that extremely fast heartbeat fills you up with way more energy then you could probably imagine.
Awesome video. Fosbury completely revolutionized the sport
I agree ,he completely did when he brought the Fosbury flop into play.
and mats
Good stuff. In 1975, 39 years ago in my 8th grade track meet I cleared the bar at 5 feet, five and one quarter inches (~1.66m), beating the standing school record by one quarter of an inch. I approached from the right and used a classic western-roll. Cheers, Mark
PS: I still have the blue ribbon.
Cool thanks for telling me about that
I cant even jump 3, you deserve the blue
Our middle school record is 5"6, nice jumping though
Thanks Alex, and all the others. Yeah, that was my big hooray as I never made my High School team. But it is something I recall with a smile and fun to hear from others. Cheers, Mark
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My middle school's record is 5' 6" for 7th and 5' 11" for 8th grade.
Watching videos like this has made me a better high jumper in high school. We never had a coach to teach high jump so I've been watch videos like this since I was a freshman. I'm a senior now and my junior year I became a state qualifier. I placed 11th in the state which is pretty amazing I think. It all thanks to videos like this.
IM 12 YO, AND I MY HIGH JUMP SCORE IS 117
Kian Valdez I’m 13 and i can jump 155 without the flop
I jumped 1.37 at states and came 2nd and I am 11 now I will continue my dream and go to nationals
thats quite high
Andrew Williams good job I do running at state. I got 4th in 800m heat
3:51 where the epicness starts.
Excellent - his jumps are so graceful in slow motion.
Thanks!
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Learned high jump in school :)
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I love high jump, it's one of my favourites, I'm 13 years old and I can jump 1.50 I wish I was taller than what I am.
I'm 13, in year 8, don't know what that is in grades. Last year, when I was 12 I managed 1.45m but we've only just resumed jumping now it's summer again so it's taking a while to get back into it. It's fun though!!
George White I'm 13 and in 9th and i can jump 1.49, but 2 years ago i could only jump 1.20
Bruh I jumped 160 when I was 13 I’m 15 now and my pb(personal best) is 185 but you can surely jump higher now
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That may not be true, they could be really short, or just not built the way you are
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I can only jump 1 . 14 😞
I think that it would also interact with the skydiver theory because If you try to land on your feet you will fall faster but land on your back you will fall slower
I remember when Dick Fosbury was jumping at meets leading up to the olympics. People thought his technique was so odd. Lots of people laughed at him. It is a classic example of "thinking outside the box." Looks like he had the last laugh!
Straddle and western roll were two separate techniques. The western roll involved bringing the trail leg up beside the lead leg and clearing the bar on the jumpers side, inefficient but safe for landing in sand or saw dust. A master straddle jumper like Brumel kept his centre of gravity below the bar. the real advantage of the flop or Brill bend is that the jumper can approach at a higher rate of speed.
I like watching tutorials because my school doesn’t have a coach, so I was all self taught until this video showed up.
A few things that were totally misrepresented here.... 1. the flop is about somersaulting. It is actually a forward and side flip. 2. The straddle is actually still valid because of the strong arm and leg actions. 3. The center of mass is very close to the bar, but the straddle has a higher COM takeoff position. The flop allows you to run faster and is maybe more forgiving on the knees.
The story of the Fosbury flop is fascinating. Apparently the guy who it's named after was a high jumper who consulted a physicist about how he could improve his high jumping technique. The physicist realised how you could jump higher if your centre of gravity was kept lower during the jump and the jumper destroyed everyone at the olympics to win gold. By the next olympics, almost all high jumpers had copied the technique. I think that's roughly how the story goes.
More physics needed. I was surprised that he didn't know what you mentioned about the technique.
I remember watching a video about the guy who first tried it. They thought he was nuts but when they saw his success, everyone started using it!
Derek's or someone's voice or laughter cracks me up at 1:40 xD
With an expert jumper as this one, the movement is so musical and so harmonious between different parts of the body, so gentle and to achieve that motion and trajectory the human mind must be as alert and as sharp and as strong as any muscle in the body. The timing must be perfect. To me a good high jumper seems to need the same conditions as a power engineer who goes to achieve only one harmonic from an electric generator and that is all the energy must be restricted to the fundamental waveform and not the harmonics. In fact when athletes and dancers, including ballet dancers perform their bit, one can immediately see if the performer is wasting energy in adding unnecessary motions. Even in horse racing, one can detect a good racing horse through noting that the horse's movement does not contain any unnecessary " harmonic" except the very fundamental motion, as energy will be wasted. There are many clumsy people who produce unnecessary motions in their manner of walking and running, and the graceful movements seems to win all the time. There seems to be an economy of energy in grace and elegance.
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"No. Jump good!"
The straddle is not a bad technique allowing 2m35 in 1978. I understood that it is more difficult to learn than the Fosbury flop. The other advantage of the Fosbury flop is the high approach speed allowed. Good straddlers actually have a lower parabola to jump, I guess because your back is essentialy straight on the Fosbury flop
Do one on pole vaulting!!! :D
In grade 8 we had a multi-school track meet and I saw all three different techniques. At the professional level very few methods are competitive (that goes for any highly competitive thing that isn't a creative discipline, and even those narrow at the highest levels), but at slightly less competitive levels there's a lot of fun to be had trying out different ways
The Fosbury Flop is such an ungainly maneuver, useful for jumping only when there's plenty of padding for the fall. I much more enjoyed the old scissors kick which resembles more a non-track event jump, how humans actually could clear an obstacle "out there" rather than in the coddled environment of a track and field meet.
I would love to see an evolution of that jump, after all is almost 40 years since its been in use, I wonder if there any obscure technique out there that's better but not in mainstream use..
So when doing the high jump in school I guess you want to try whatever you can to start off with as high center of mass as possible and end with as low center of mass as possible to maximise efficiency.
Loving these videos, Derek! Thanks to your vid about sailing, I'm teaching my perschool kids a bit about Hunter as part of our Olympics theme, what with him being a local and all (I teach in Downtown Vancouver).
I really hope you can do something as in depth as this on the Hammer throw. That event looks insane!
I did high jump at primary school. I was freakishly tall for my age, but had poor technique.
On those magical moments where I managed to flukishly get the technique right I could get WAY higher than the rest of the time.
Can't even remember what my personal best was now.
I also had this weird thing where I was jumping from the wrong side based on my handedness - I'm right handed but it felt more natural jumping from the left-handed position.
When I saw your TH-cam name I thought of Verita Serum from Harry Potter
Love this video and this channel... Makes high jump such a beautiful sport to watch in a diff perspective :)
i started doing highjump about 3 years ago, i was about 12 or 11 at the time. When i ran up to the bar i just naturally did the Fosbury flop, like it was in my instincts. That day i got a old record of 1.45 metres, last year was my highest jump with a height of about 1.60-1.65 metres at the age of 14. When i was 12 i was about 5'7", last year i was 6ft and couldn't dunk, now i'm 15, 6'1 and can dunk, hopefully my record gets higher next year.
I thought your left knee was going to break at 4:09. haha I'm a physical educator, big fan of biomechanics and how physics in general can be used to improve human movement increasing it's performance and safety. Great video. Thank you.
I love the intro w/ all that jumper
I remember when my high school physics professor first showed us how this worked. It kind of blew my mind.
Watching the high jump in slow motion makes it look so fun!!!
Well I'm not an athlete in any way, but as far as i know, you start swinging your arms and one leg upwards while still on the ground. then when you are in the air you will stop the upwards motion of your arms and leg, to use the kinetic energy from the upwards motion to propel your entire body upwards --> jumping higher :)
I like the contrast between the athlete elegant jump and derek's drunk slow motion car crashes XD
I like how you can make any topic fascinating! I saw this video on my homepage and thought for a moment: "sports video? no thanks" but then I remembered it was veritasium so it wasn't going to be any regular sports video
Dick Fosbury devised his Flop technique while he was in high school, in Medford, Oregon, about a mile from my house. His coach, Bill Bowerman later teamed up with a guy named Phil Knight and they co-founded a shoe company called Nike.
i just saw the center of mass video on Khan academy a couple minutes ago, and it mentioned the center of mass going under the bar too
We did this in gym for a track and field unit. I'm 5' 7" and my top height cleared was 5' 1". So for someone who had never done this before, a half foot under my height isn't that bad.
I’m gonna be honest with u that’s not that good but to each their own but if you don’t take it serious that’s decent
Beautiful. Thank you 🌷
Ooooh, I didn't know about the old techniques! That's so interesting! I actually learned to do the flop back in school... couldn't jump all that high but I was proud to know how to do it right at least. Most of the time I just chickened at the last moment, though. x) It's so completely against your instincts to jump backwards and head first no matter how well you know there's a soft landing.
I 14 and I use the flossberry flop my record is 6 foot 1 inch
I tried the sissor kick and I got to 5 foot 5 inches, the scissor kick is the most challenging but the fly is very flat is most accurate for air
because if you take off on the left leg on that side your right leg will be the one that will ultimately go over the bar first. it makes it harder if you take off with the right leg
I am just starting the high jump and it is so incredibly fun!
yah and it came out in IGCSE physics exam asking why height that used to calculate gravitational potential energy of the athlete is less than the height of the bar.
I was taught the scissors and the fosbury but I'd wager the fosbury flop is a little better. That was the technique I used when I used to high jump which was aeons ago. It gave me a massive adrenaline rush being launched in the air like that lol.
Very useful for my school sports day coming up >.
awesome vid, looks like you have a lot of fun too
This is at my local track OMG
This is pretty old, and the chances of someone actually seeing and getting this are pretty slim, but I'll put it out there anyway: double bloody decker!
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2 years later and i saw it lol
I am 13 and my personal record is 1,45 meters. Im a girl. And i saw something kind of wrong he did. He should come closer to the bar when he does the flopper. It really works. Maybe not at that hight.
But tell me? Am I a bad high jumper?
At the speed you are going to clear these heights you have to jump further away from the bar because if you jump close and are going fast your forward momentum will just throw you at the bar and won't allow enough time to reach the desired height
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Dang you’re good.
...and here I am with a 4’10” jump damn
I can relate sadly
Fosbury Flop is the best because arquing your back over the bar you move the gravity centre of your body, so it let you overcome a bar which is even 10cm over the gravity centre. In ventral rolling it´s no more than 5cm. However, in scissors style the gravity centre is 15cm over the bar. So, with a good Fosbury technique you have to jump about 25cm more than scissors style. In my case 2,15 Flop and 1,90 scissors
I really loved this video! one of your best! it wasn't as much physics as your other videos but i loved it!
I'm 5'0", 11 years old, and my record is 4"1'. I just started high jump and really want to improve, so this is really appreciated
here cus we are doing it in schol ajajsjsj
Can't at higher school competitions. I try to make sure two foot jumpers don't get selected for the next level, Zones.
I coach boys from age 9 to flop. I think it is easier for the boys to get going with than scissors. I use scissors in training to keep the jumper vertical on the way up.
I started with Josh when he started at Sydney High when he was 13. Some time ago I know.
thank you! now those techniques are clear to me :')
This is brilliant. I can't wait to jump again. Surgery sucks...
I actually like the one where you land on your feet in that it represents what someone might do in a real life situation, not just a very specific sport. Maybe it's not as fun to watch because people won't get as high, but it could be it's own classification of jumping sport. And put saw dust back down.
I know high jump is about getting as high as possible but jumping and landing with your feet is the truest jump in my opinion.
It's the hardest and if you can do it as high as you can it's amazing, the straddle and Fosbury techniques feel like a little bit of "cheating" for me.
I can do the Fosbury Flop but I still can't do the Scissor kick jump nicely.
But more safe. I brake my lef tankle with scissor kick jump on 1 70 warm up..... its luck im a right leg jumper. So after 1 year I won a county championship :)
I am better with scissors than the others and am 13
I'm here because over the past months I've really been looking into going to the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games for for high jump
from inspiration to my favourite athlete, I've just turned 16 last month and I'm not even close to being the height of the high jumpers I'm between 170-180m, is it possible for me to to jump as high as they do even though I'm not as tall? I believe so if I get a good amount of training in because I really want to jump with these legends, maybe I'll grow throughout the next months
I get top 3 consistently for high jump. Props to everyone who does it, cause it hurts to land on the bar
You should be in London doing this for every sport. Makes it WAY more interesting
his comments about the center of mass are not strictly accurate. The Straddle method also doesn't necessarily put all of your center of mass over the bar at the same time. Depending on ones body structure, I think the straddle could do with some resurgence and more technique.
I though you could choose which leg you took off from
Hopefully this will help me for my track meet coming up! Wish me luck!
@alankey86 I'm a pole vault-er the pole is only there to transfer/store horizontal energy into vertical.
thanks for the help. im 13 and im clearing about 4.8 or 4.9 feet with the flop and i can clear 4.5 with the sisor kick
we have a competition tomorrow this is really helpful now i know what is wrong an right :-)!!!
My track coach showed this video at our practice the other day.
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I love these videos so much!
My neck hurts when I first time trying this landing on the harder mat.
highump is really fun
I genuinely just said that out loud when I saw it
I love this Chanel !
What about the long jump? There are a lot of thechniques. The world record holder used the hitchkick 3,5 step technique, but there were alo good jumpers using the hang technique or less steps in the air
great video, espn sports science did a video on this also and the science behind it
Yeah it was tailored for an American audience (we really should adopt the metric system) but kinda cool. He should interview Steve Hooker, the Australian record holder.
:55 Bing! All TH-camrs really do know eachother!
Do Pole vault, great physics about how energy is been transfer and store inside the pole.
Guys it was a fun video, not every one has to be solely about science
For the youngsters out there, it's called the Fosbury Flop.That's what the TV announcers began calling it during the 68 Olympics.
I'd like to see a video on the wonderful physics of Skateboarding
I do high jump too! Although my best is only 5 feet :( You should have asked him for tips to help jump higher.
I see one thing he is doing wrong. Correct me if I am wrong. I see that he is looking at the bar while jumping instead of his head more back to increase the arch and kick.
Imagine someone just trying it first time in making new world record
height doesn't have anything to do with the high jump because it is the distance off the ground one can JUMP, not the distance off the ground one can REACH, like basketball-where height does matter.
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By not having to raise your center of mass higher, you use less energy to clear the bar thus you can jump higher is what this video is stating about the physics of high jumping.
yup missed my shot at nationals. Everyone jumped over 2.04m hella high for no reason. gotta love the competition though
I could do a front flip over 1.40, and could flop 1.60 before I quit in I think Gr. 9. I bet you could go just as high if not higher with a straight dead on approach and a front flip if you had the balls, it just gets scary as you go higher.
You don't have to take off on your left foot you can approach from either side and take off on either foot as long as its with only one foot I myself approach from the left side and jump off of my right foot
You can touch the bar all you want as long as it doesn't get knocked out of place.
did 1.70m when I was in 7th grade, was such a rush when I could go home and tell my mom I had jumped over her height :D
Is there a behind the scenes video of you and Team Tomska?
Ah that makes sense. Its obvious I guess, but I couldnt think why. Thanks for your answer =D