BTW, this is the best technical high jump tutorial I have EVER seen. I've been looking for something like this for a while. Thank you.

Javier Sotomayor's 7.9m/s Velocity equates to 17.67mph...at that speed, he would cover the 100m in 12.6s THAT'S MOVING!!

Great video Goran! Wish it was available 30 years ago when i was a high jumper. For those who are wondering about centrifugal force and physics laws around circular motions, here is the definition: Centripetal force is defined as, “The component of force acting on a body in curvilinear motion that is directed toward the center of curvature or axis of rotation,” while centrifugal force is defined as, “The apparent force, equal and opposite to the centripetal force, drawing a rotating body away from the center of rotation, caused by the inertia of the body”

This is the best high jump video there is in YT

Very helpful! I'm high jumping this week at sections in MN.

When I jumped, my curve was not a constant radius. It was actually a decreasing radius as I neared the bar. I found this to be easier to allow for the long-long-short final three steps. The video ends just as it begins to describe the torque and stress endured by the ankles accelerate through the arc. I would compare these stressful loads to that experienced by a rollercoaster looping through a perfect circle. Coaster engineers discovered that there is far less stress on both the track and the riders if the loop-the-loop were tear=dropped shaped instead instead of perfectly circular. Coincidentally, this is the same discovery I made on my approach. If you cut the rollercoaster loop in half vertically, then you have a general shape of the arc of the curve I would run on my approach. A teardrop shape is an arc with decreasing radius.

Interesting and very informative.

This was very helpful in ways

yes, momentum is what what were looking for. along with a easier change in our center of gravity to be thrown underneath the bar.

my favourite sport is high jump I have go taluk level in high jump

"centrifugal force"

if you were to go around a circular turn and suddenly hit a patch of ice, would you continue tangential to the circle? or would you be pushed outward by "centrifugal force".

do you have the rest of this video?

QUE PESADILLA DE VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!

Check the Kurve and angle from Andrey Silnov.

Better and more efficient than what?

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¡Super super helpfull video! This is lime the bible os High Jump!

There really is no centrifugal force. The force that keeps you moving in a circle is a centripetal force, pulling you towards the center. The runner applies this force to move in a circular direction instead of straight ahead. If you hit ice, you are no longer able to provide this centripetal force, so you continue along the trajectory of motion as soon as the force disappears. So, you move tangential to the curve if you hit ice.

Agree that the physics at 6:34 - 7:00 is wrong. The Fcf force shown is does not exist. An object in motion will stay in motion if not acted upon by an external force. As soon as the athlete jumps, the centirpetal force stops, and, if the athlete jumps straight up, there is no force pushing the athlete towards and past the bar. The athlete is carried in that direction by momentum alone. Other than that, its very useful.

You don't really need to know the math. Just need to understand the concepts and practice. You want to go at the bar with as much speed as your body can take. You need to build up to that point though, to prevent injury. Higher horizontal speed + a tighter angle of approach = a higher vertical jump. I prefer a wider approach at a higher speed because the angle of my ankle at takeoff is less, which is less strenuous on my ankle.

I would be impressed if this research had been done while Dick Fosbury was developing his backward dive technique.

The body weight actually passes under the bar... Apply that however you choose. I used all of this to improve my baskeball techniques

I used these techniques and jumped 4 inches higher!

there is no such thing as centrifugal force.

I can never believe this

can you take a look at my page and tell me what i am doing wrong in my high jump video? thanks

come on Vigors really, 9 minutes!? fer fuck

The physics part is wrong. Other than that the information is not bad.

lots of math

WTF??? i wanted to know how to get better, not every math equation involved, im not gonna go up there with calculations and spend an hour trying to find the exact measurements.