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.

@kianlol2929

6 жыл бұрын

IM 12 YO, AND I MY HIGH JUMP SCORE IS 117

@sluttynan5691

6 жыл бұрын

Kian Valdez I’m 13 and i can jump 155 without the flop

@gaknhial3678

5 жыл бұрын

I jumped 1.37 at states and came 2nd and I am 11 now I will continue my dream and go to nationals

@NexThicc

5 жыл бұрын

thats quite high

@blaz3ical786

5 жыл бұрын

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

@jetfu400

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@noctusjordan8270

3 жыл бұрын

He is female wr

@jellyducky1636

2 жыл бұрын

Wassup here before the comment blows up

@itismethatguy

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@Obaidur121

23 сағат бұрын

❤❤❤

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.

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.

@pedroelias4054

Жыл бұрын

lmao first like and reply after 10 years

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.

Awesome video. Fosbury completely revolutionized the sport

@sallys7265

6 жыл бұрын

I agree ,he completely did when he brought the Fosbury flop into play.

@caprimann87

5 жыл бұрын

and mats

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!

3:51 where the epicness starts.

Learned high jump in school :)

@yasandubethmage8055

5 жыл бұрын

F***

@innkblot5224

3 жыл бұрын

Yasandu Bethmage, ?

anyone else heard '2 minutes 22'? xD

@kroleYT

5 жыл бұрын

jup

@DreHill1

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@mayaachase1629

4 жыл бұрын

I did

@mallappajakkappanavar1569

4 жыл бұрын

@Chewie Is Hyper wituru

@Yuuki3uwu

4 жыл бұрын

Music at 4:00

Excellent - his jumps are so graceful in slow motion. Thanks!

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.

@ellerealyay1293

9 жыл бұрын

Cool thanks for telling me about that

@jerrytang3047

9 жыл бұрын

I cant even jump 3, you deserve the blue

@alexhagerty6097

9 жыл бұрын

Our middle school record is 5"6, nice jumping though

@markbell9742

9 жыл бұрын

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

@luisavalos9933

7 жыл бұрын

Mark Beeunas My middle school's record is 5' 6" for 7th and 5' 11" for 8th grade.

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.

@trizard8913

9 жыл бұрын

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!!

@paigelang5133

8 жыл бұрын

George White I'm 13 and in 9th and i can jump 1.49, but 2 years ago i could only jump 1.20

@jjspants

4 жыл бұрын

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

@user-xp3eg9qm6u

4 жыл бұрын

@@jjspants hmmm? That may not be true, they could be really short, or just not built the way you are 😑😑🤨🤔

@kys191

4 жыл бұрын

I can only jump 1 . 14 😞

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!

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

Love this video and this channel... Makes high jump such a beautiful sport to watch in a diff perspective :)

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).

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.

Beautiful. Thank you 🌷

I like watching tutorials because my school doesn’t have a coach, so I was all self taught until this video showed up.

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 really loved this video! one of your best! it wasn't as much physics as your other videos but i loved it!

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 love these videos so much!

I really enjoyed your use of high-speed footage.

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

Watching the high jump in slow motion makes it look so fun!!!

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. :)

I really hope you can do something as in depth as this on the Hammer throw. That event looks insane!

I am just starting the high jump and it is so incredibly fun!

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.

@ErrantChordier

Жыл бұрын

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.

@writerjmd

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

I have high jump TOMMOROW so I'm watching

@elizabeouf

8 жыл бұрын

+Edward Luna (Timelord) well where I live it isn't, we had high jump a separate day

@wazif1786

7 жыл бұрын

same

@aadhavan7127

7 жыл бұрын

Lizzy ! same

@taod01

5 жыл бұрын

elizabeouf same

@thatomakhafola2756

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh I have sports everyday in Jan, Feb like running, high jump and shot put like

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!

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

@youssefeleraki6697

3 жыл бұрын

sheesh

your videos are informative as always

Very helpfull!! Thanks

I love the intro w/ all that jumper

thank you! now those techniques are clear to me :')

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.

Nice Movies! Thanks a lot.

"You can fly?!" "No. Jump good!"

Very useful for my school sports day coming up >.

I like informative videos but I thought it was awesome!. made me wanna try, it looks so fun in slow-mo.

My school has MS olympic day today i'm doing high-jump and 100m sprint so this really helps me thank you ka

Very nice teaching my brother amazing

awesome vid, looks like you have a lot of fun too

Derek's or someone's voice or laughter cracks me up at 1:40 xD

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 love this Chanel !

This is just beautiful .

that was so awesome i can hardly believe how cool that was, if i could subscribe 1000 times then i would

I was just about to post the same questions about both the last two songs. I wish we knew!

Very cool, and now I learned there are 3 technics!

Good effort on those jumps fella. :)

I remember when my high school physics professor first showed us how this worked. It kind of blew my mind.

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. :)

@youssefeleraki6697

3 жыл бұрын

@Sofia Salamanca hi 8 years and 1 month later

@jellyducky1636

2 жыл бұрын

@@youssefeleraki6697 hi 8 years 3 months I'm dad

i knew i couldnt sleep for some reason i geuss i was waiting for this

that looks so cool!

How beautiful all the colors of this video

I was literally mesmerized by the slow motion jumps.

Hopefully this will help me for my track meet coming up! Wish me luck!

Man that background music never gets old...

Beautiful

Thanks a lot. This really helped me with my homework :D

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.

Ack! Got there ahead of me! Well done. StarFox Forever!

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.

amazing video! thnks

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 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.

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 one on pole vaulting!!! :D

When I saw your KZread name I thought of Verita Serum from Harry Potter

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.

we have a competition tomorrow this is really helpful now i know what is wrong an right :-)!!!

Perfect timing my school’s track unit just started

I Love High Jump!🥇❤️💯

My track coach showed this video at our practice the other day.

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

great video, espn sports science did a video on this also and the science behind it

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.

It's very useful video.

This is at my local track OMG

looks so fun

this is my first year going into track, and this is gonna be very helpful

@sophiegroesser8935

5 жыл бұрын

you will probably have other people there to help you, i won’t, the coaches rarely teach it, and im the only person who does it

beautiful

this was awesome!

This is brilliant. I can't wait to jump again. Surgery sucks...

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.

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

@1veritasium I really enjoyed your vid! Twas really cool :P Thanks mate! :D

I love the music in these videos Ita so cool

awesome video derek!

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 love doing the high jump!

What was that song at the end?! It was amazing!

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 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

Thanks

I'd like to see a video on the wonderful physics of Skateboarding