2.46 high jump

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pretty impressive, this shuold be the future of high jumping, high levels of reactivity is all you need to jump high

It is impressive. I believe there’s a rule stating take off must be with one leg though. Also, I’d like to see that done on a track surface 🙂

That floor is heavily springloaded.

That is really awesome…the body awareness needed for that is crazy…

I’d love to see what they can do from a normal floor…

My first impression was that I was a little insulted. It’s like, “see, we’ve got 3 guys who aren’t even high jumpers who can jump higher than the world record without even trying.” They don’t even address the fact that they’re using the same sprint loaded floor that allows pixie-like females to get 50″ vertical displacements or the fact that they’re going off of 2 feet.

It’s certainly interesting but just by my casual observation of watching gymnastics, these guys aren’t even very good for their height.

never looked at it like that…

i guess it might not do much for increasing the popularity of the sport…

Its like saying…well, the high jump world record in athletics is easy to beat if real athletes like gymnasts were allowed to compete.

Richard_2009 is not going to like this one. “look at these shirtless pansy fairies doing prissy cheerleader flips on a trampoline floor then comparing themselves with Sotomanly”

Richard_2009 is not going to like this one. “look at these shirtless pansy fairies doing prissy cheerleader flips on a trampoline floor then comparing themselves with Sotomanly”

Too funny.

Richard_2009 is not going to like this one. “look at these shirtless pansy fairies doing prissy cheerleader flips on a trampoline floor then comparing themselves with Sotomanly”

Sotomanly? And you wonder why people don’t take track and field seriously? You can’t even spell! It’s Sotomayor! JEEZ! IDIOT! These guys don’t even have cool skills, like nunchuk skills, or bo staff skills… JEEZ!

JK JK. I missed the better part of the saga of Robert09, but when I read through it I thought it was a fifteen year old disgruntled High Schooler, if he really does have athletes I feel sorry for them.

The clip by the way is kinda interesting. Didn’t the two-footed dolphin dive used to be a legit jump in the early 1900s but too many people were breaking their necks landing in sawdust?

Must have been a slow news day for whatever channel was reporting this. That type of stuff, doing tumbling passes into layouts onto high stacks of mats, over stuff, through stuff, etc, happens quite a bit in a gym.

There is nothing more awful than a gymnast sprinting.

Like others, it would be interesting to see with an “unsprung” floor.

Perhaps this goes to the crux of the “Improvement” thread, partially as I could see it happening with this evolving to a “judged” event (say points for the clearance height but “style” points for the method of run/twist/air) and I have a bit of difficulty with that concept, judged, anyway.

I could also see this going the way of the cartwheel shot put, if rules somewhere do not already effectively “outlaw” it.

But related to the other thread, if evolution like this brought Athletics more into the fore of “mainstream” culture, would it then become acceptable to die hard track aficionados? Humans have always been interested in flight so long jump, high jump and vault could be starting points.

If I remember right, they did away with the rules for sprinting form during the vault and now start judging on contact with the spring board. The last olympics gymnasts had noticeably better (more natural) sprinting form

This is true. I actually noticed it in Beijing.