What this blog is All about

This is don’t follow the rules society It goes back in time to show people who either was born before their time or…

Those who lip before they look and still succeeded.

And more importantly, how you can learn to zag when everybody Zig.

Before 1968 in Mexico the conventional method high jumpers used was to cross the bar with their body parallel to it, in a technique called the Western Roll. But that was about to change

Richard Douglas Fosbury ( The Fosbery Flop)

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A Brief History Of High Jump

On paper, high jump started in Scotland in the early 19th century.

Jumpers tried different methods and techniques to jump over higher heights.

One of the methods employed by Pioneer jumpers was an elaborate straight-on approach or a scissors technique.

About a century later, Newer techniques came forth.

Michael Sweeney, an Irish-American of the New York Athletic Club, came up with a new style.

He took off like you would in the scissors jump but extends his back and flattening out over the bar. The new technics was called the Eastern cut-off. “Eastern” because of it’s origin, United States of America East Coast
This new style enables Sweeney to jump to clear a higher bar more than the customary scissors method, but he still landed on his feet.

Sweeney achieved a new world record in 1895, 1.97 m/6 ft 5.5.”

George Horine also American is credited with the Western roll.
He approached the bar diagonal, taking off with his inner leg, and use his outer leg to lead his body sideways over the bar.
George increased the world benchmark to 2.01 m/6 ft 7 ” in 1912.

This technique was what most jumpers used during the Berlin Olympics of 1936. Cornelius Johnson won and set a new world record at 2.03 m/6 ft 7.75″.
Then Came the straddle technique pioneered by American and Soviet jumpers.
Straddle jumpers took off as in the Western roll, but rotated their belly-down.