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.
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.
ok, so maybe I shouldn't have called it "physics of high jump" *changes title* but there were things in here that I learned about different techniques for example, that I haven't seen done elsewhere - or shown well in slow motion. And I do think the idea that your centre of mass passes under the bar is a cool so I wanted to show that.
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.
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
Great video! Usually, this is treated from the (correct) point of view of partial conversion of kinetic energy into potential energy; the paradoxical path of the centre of mass is often ignored. Can't wait for a new video about pole vaulting! Thanks!
The video is cool - great visuals & nice pace - but not very informative... Apart from the fact the Fosbury allows the jumper to clear a bar without having to raise the center of mass as much as other techniques, we don't really get into the physics of high jump ; and even that is only a partial explanation: the roll jump also lowers the center of mass, it's just harder to jump as high like that. I know these videos take time to make, I just hope you can get more science into the next ones. :)
This makes me miss high jump so badly. I did little athletics as a kid/teen for years. Out of all the events this is 100% the most satisfying. There's barely any satisfaction in throwing something a bit further than last time, or even jumping further in long jump. There's something really special about jumping that little bit higher in hight jump though, and soaring a little bit longer.
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!!
This is really cool; I loved the history part, and how the techniques allowed for higher jumps, and the explanation that in the modern technique your centre of gravity can be actually below the line of bar all the time. Then it's a matter of mastering the the arc of the body the right way, at the right time, to pass the bar. Of course, jumping high might also be important.
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!
The straddle or western roll... actually had jumpers go 7-7...I believe a Russian guy. We were still using that techinque in high school in 1970 after Fosbury because many schools only had a pit with a foot high pile of wet sawdust to land on.
Yup, the straddle record is 7'8½" (235 cm), by Vladimir Yashchenko. He had a bad career-ending injury at age 20. He probably would have challenged the current record if he had stayed healthy. As I understand some people are just naturally better suited to the straddle, but everyone does the flop because, well, everyone does/knows the flop already, and it's easier to learn when you're starting out. Children don't want to have to train a full year just to get a passable straddle, but you can get a passable flop in a couple weeks. With the straddle there's tons of potential for technique improvement, even if you're skilled at it. The straddle actually raises your center of mass at takeoff more than the flop (the free leg going higher), at the expense of not being able to pass it under the bar and still clear it.
@@ErrantChordier I learned to straddle in one day on my own. I tried to teach kids how to flop and found it difficult because they all wanted to go back first into the bar. We had one kid in our high school league straddle a couple years ago. He was the only one.
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.
Well I think the video was awesome regardless of the fact that there isn't much physics involved in it. Nice job, Derek, and thank you for introducing us to all those fascinating people. :)
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!
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.
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
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
3:08 There’s no such thing as a free lunch. The flop technique doesn’t buy you anything you can’t get with a straddle because all the important work is done on the ground. Theres very little difference in efficiency between a competently executed straddle and an equivalent flop. There’s no point worrying about getting a couple of centimetres out of bar clearance technique if you can get 20 centimetres out of a better take off. At that point a well executed straddle take off has the advantage but it’s harder to learn and execute. The reason the flop is universal these days is that it is easier to teach and learn. I suspect flop jumpers also suffer fewer injuries too, though both are hard on knees.
Pole vault would be awesome! One misconception I come across often (as a physics teacher) is that people believe the springyness of the pole adds energy to the pole vaulter.
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.
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).
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 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 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
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 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.
Hi derek! Could you make more videos explaining physics in other track and field events? I think this one was nice and, being a jumper (triple jump), would like to see more!!!!!!
I’m 6’4, 14 years old and throw javelin but at my meet today they needed another high jumper, I volunteered and obviously did horrible since I have never done it but it was such a rush, hoping to keep doing it.
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 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.
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.
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..
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
Not everyone takes off on their left foot. It's not required! I also got to meet and jump in front of Dick Fosbury. It was incredible. He signed my shoes and then I had to go get new high jump shoes to protect those ones.
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.
Do you think you could add more visual representations of the information you are relaying to us? I feel it would be beneficial to a wider audience and if you did. Thanks in advance.
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
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 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 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
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.
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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
he cleared at least 2m on the day, and possibly 2.05m
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.
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Awesome video. Fosbury completely revolutionized the sport
I agree ,he completely did when he brought the Fosbury flop into play.
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ok, so maybe I shouldn't have called it "physics of high jump" *changes title* but there were things in here that I learned about different techniques for example, that I haven't seen done elsewhere - or shown well in slow motion. And I do think the idea that your centre of mass passes under the bar is a cool so I wanted to show that.
lmao first like and reply after 10 years
Excellent - his jumps are so graceful in slow motion.
Thanks!
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.
3:51 where the epicness starts.
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.
anyone else heard '2 minutes 22'? xD
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Music at 4:00
music in this vid was thanks to Appchat - often I just spend a lot of time listening to tracks before I pick something. The beard is here to stay!
Learned high jump in school :)
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Great video! Usually, this is treated from the (correct) point of view of partial conversion of kinetic energy into potential energy; the paradoxical path of the centre of mass is often ignored. Can't wait for a new video about pole vaulting! Thanks!
The video is cool - great visuals & nice pace - but not very informative...
Apart from the fact the Fosbury allows the jumper to clear a bar without having to raise the center of mass as much as other techniques, we don't really get into the physics of high jump ; and even that is only a partial explanation: the roll jump also lowers the center of mass, it's just harder to jump as high like that.
I know these videos take time to make, I just hope you can get more science into the next ones. :)
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This makes me miss high jump so badly. I did little athletics as a kid/teen for years. Out of all the events this is 100% the most satisfying. There's barely any satisfaction in throwing something a bit further than last time, or even jumping further in long jump. There's something really special about jumping that little bit higher in hight jump though, and soaring a little bit longer.
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
@@jjspants hmmm?
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 😞
This is really cool; I loved the history part, and how the techniques allowed for higher jumps, and the explanation that in the modern technique your centre of gravity can be actually below the line of bar all the time. Then it's a matter of mastering the the arc of the body the right way, at the right time, to pass the bar.
Of course, jumping high might also be important.
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!
The straddle or western roll... actually had jumpers go 7-7...I believe a Russian guy. We were still using that techinque in high school in 1970 after Fosbury because many schools only had a pit with a foot high pile of wet sawdust to land on.
Yup, the straddle record is 7'8½" (235 cm), by Vladimir Yashchenko. He had a bad career-ending injury at age 20. He probably would have challenged the current record if he had stayed healthy.
As I understand some people are just naturally better suited to the straddle, but everyone does the flop because, well, everyone does/knows the flop already, and it's easier to learn when you're starting out. Children don't want to have to train a full year just to get a passable straddle, but you can get a passable flop in a couple weeks. With the straddle there's tons of potential for technique improvement, even if you're skilled at it.
The straddle actually raises your center of mass at takeoff more than the flop (the free leg going higher), at the expense of not being able to pass it under the bar and still clear it.
@@ErrantChordier I learned to straddle in one day on my own. I tried to teach kids how to flop and found it difficult because they all wanted to go back first into the bar. We had one kid in our high school league straddle a couple years ago. He was the only one.
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.
Well I think the video was awesome regardless of the fact that there isn't much physics involved in it. Nice job, Derek, and thank you for introducing us to all those fascinating people. :)
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!
I like watching tutorials because my school doesn’t have a coach, so I was all self taught until this video showed up.
i had a high jump theme in PE and on my first try i hit the bar and i feel on it with by backbone
sheesh
Beautiful. Thank you 🌷
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.
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
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.
I have high jump TOMMOROW so I'm watching
+Edward Luna (Timelord) well where I live it isn't, we had high jump a separate day
same
Lizzy ! same
elizabeouf same
Bruh I have sports everyday in Jan, Feb like running, high jump and shot put like
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
3:08 There’s no such thing as a free lunch. The flop technique doesn’t buy you anything you can’t get with a straddle because all the important work is done on the ground. Theres very little difference in efficiency between a competently executed straddle and an equivalent flop. There’s no point worrying about getting a couple of centimetres out of bar clearance technique if you can get 20 centimetres out of a better take off. At that point a well executed straddle take off has the advantage but it’s harder to learn and execute. The reason the flop is universal these days is that it is easier to teach and learn. I suspect flop jumpers also suffer fewer injuries too, though both are hard on knees.
Pole vault would be awesome!
One misconception I come across often (as a physics teacher) is that people believe the springyness of the pole adds energy to the pole vaulter.
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.
I really enjoyed your use of high-speed footage.
I remember when my high school physics professor first showed us how this worked. It kind of blew my mind.
what's the music at 0:09 ?? Thanks
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 think you did a fine Job Derek. I now understand better how they jump so high... Most of their body isn't that high at the same time.
I really hope you can do something as in depth as this on the Hammer throw. That event looks insane!
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 :)
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I came 3rd in my high school competition! 😂 🥉
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.
What was that song at the end?! It was amazing!
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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I really loved this video! one of your best! it wasn't as much physics as your other videos but i loved it!
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
Derek's or someone's voice or laughter cracks me up at 1:40 xD
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.
Hopefully this will help me for my track meet coming up! Wish me luck!
Hi derek!
Could you make more videos explaining physics in other track and field events?
I think this one was nice and, being a jumper (triple jump), would like to see more!!!!!!
I’m 6’4, 14 years old and throw javelin but at my meet today they needed another high jumper, I volunteered and obviously did horrible since I have never done it but it was such a rush, hoping to keep doing it.
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
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.
Love this video and this channel... Makes high jump such a beautiful sport to watch in a diff perspective :)
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.
You should be in London doing this for every sport. Makes it WAY more interesting
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..
Music at 4:00
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
Man that background music never gets old...
awesome vid, looks like you have a lot of fun too
i knew i couldnt sleep for some reason i geuss i was waiting for this
When I saw your TH-cam name I thought of Verita Serum from Harry Potter
Not everyone takes off on their left foot. It's not required! I also got to meet and jump in front of Dick Fosbury. It was incredible. He signed my shoes and then I had to go get new high jump shoes to protect those ones.
does anyone know the background song on 0:51?
Do one on pole vaulting!!! :D
Watching the high jump in slow motion makes it look so fun!!!
I'm suffering to get the track name at 4:00 ! I tried shazam , sound hound and I ended up with nothing !!
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 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
I am just starting the high jump and it is so incredibly fun!
I love the intro w/ all that jumper
Good effort on those jumps fella. :)
My school has MS olympic day today i'm doing high-jump and 100m sprint so this really helps me thank you
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I was literally mesmerized by the slow motion jumps.
What's the name of the music that starts at 3:53?
@1veritasium I could be way out, but is that Parliament Hill in London?
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
This is a great video. What is the music at 0:09 and then again at 3:51? It's really great!
Do you think you could add more visual representations of the information you are relaying to us?
I feel it would be beneficial to a wider audience and if you did.
Thanks in advance.
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
I love these videos so much!
no i made the high jump team this year and at the tryouts i thought i would do terrible but its actually easier than it looks and really fun
What's the difference of taking off with your left foot to your right foot?
Leenk it just depends on which foot you prefer
Very useful for my school sports day coming up >.
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 was just about to post the same questions about both the last two songs. I wish we knew!
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 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
What was the music playing in the background during slow motion shots?
Ack! Got there ahead of me! Well done. StarFox Forever!
This is brilliant. I can't wait to jump again. Surgery sucks...
Is there a behind the scenes video of you and Team Tomska?
My track coach showed this video at our practice the other day.
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.
Guys it was a fun video, not every one has to be solely about science
your videos are informative as always
thank you! now those techniques are clear to me :')
@alankey86 I'm a pole vault-er the pole is only there to transfer/store horizontal energy into vertical.