Imagine other dudes in the competition being like: “WHY NOBOBY TOLD US ABOUT THIS?”

Doesn't the technique of the other jumpers look strange now? And to think at the time, it was Fosbury's technique that looked strange.

@71poiuytrewq

6 жыл бұрын

True!!

@Sargebri

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. In fact, the last roll jumper that I heard of was an East German decathlete in 1988.

@kinuux

4 жыл бұрын

Think different would lead you to Disaster or innovation

@HotelPapa100

4 жыл бұрын

There's nothing natural about this technique. You have to force your body to employ it. When I dabbled in athletics in my youth I never could master it; got my best heights with the old straddle, which came quite natural to me. I must commend Fosbury to have perfected this technique until it could yield its full potential.

@vedantkokate971

3 жыл бұрын

@@HotelPapa100 of course it isn't natural and that's the whole point

What an innovator Dick Fosbury is. It was brave of him to change the traditional high jump techniques of that era, to his totally radical style. He definitely moved high jump forward. He deserves all his plaudits within the sport.

@moea.9120

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, he moved high jump backward. ;)

@NJ187

4 жыл бұрын

A lot had to do with the change of the landing surface. I'm not taking anything away from what Fosbury accomplished and pushing the sport to new heights, but one has to think that if the landing surface were still sand pits or the low piles of mats that were previously used he would be reluctant to give himself up like that. But who knows? lol. Maybe he was a nut and would have just back splashed into the sand.

@eggsnspam

3 жыл бұрын

@@NJ187 That's what he did. He'd been doing that technique since he was 16. Flopping around on small mats. This is why no one wanted to try his technique. They were scared of injury.

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

@@NJ187 Fosbury started off doing this into sawdust and plane shavings. There is vision of it on KZread.

@melt6894

3 жыл бұрын

@@NJ187 jumping higher is jumping higher. Landing safely is secondary.

"Fosbury, what are you doing?" Fosbury : "Changing this sport forever"

I think this is the most beautiful moment in sports history.

@blueburro9226

6 жыл бұрын

NauticalStrings The greatest moment (IMO) was when Jesse Owen's smoked everybody at the '39 Berlin Olympics. In front of all those Nazis, priceless.

@blueburro9226

6 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that about FDR. Like, did Roosevelt know that jackleg was a Klansman before he appointed him?

@crashdavis721

4 жыл бұрын

@@blueburro9226 Berlin Olympics was in 36' you dipshit

@blueburro9226

4 жыл бұрын

@@crashdavis721 you're right, of course, the '36 Olympics. Thanks Crash for pointing out what a DIPSHIT you are. Thanks again.

@gkprivate433

3 жыл бұрын

I still vote for Bob Beamon shattering the Long Jump record. What an olympics. I was 11

TedEd brought me here.

@krishnagirap4847

8 жыл бұрын

me too

@maxsnellman9204

7 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Tran me too

@freadbear9645

7 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Tran same

@lunalargent2282

7 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Tran me too bruh

@lordfarquaad3939

6 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Tran same

i love the ambient noises it goes with this beautiful revolutionary moment

@jessel.mccormick1780

3 жыл бұрын

SERIOUSLY!

Fosbury is a badass, a legend!!

@RobbyBoy167

7 жыл бұрын

His jumping style was amazing. Jumpers today covered more horizontal distance in their jump, requiring more mattress. He, on the other hand, just goes up and straight down again. It looks so weird

RIP to the man, but the legend lives on forever..

TedED?

@mikomaneze2873

8 жыл бұрын

Me :D

@Brunowsky-vj1le

8 жыл бұрын

Me

@CleartheStone99

7 жыл бұрын

QI

@cristlewrite7944

7 жыл бұрын

meeee

@rattan3922

7 жыл бұрын

Justin Arro ye boi

I'm here cause of Ted ed. So cool and interesting.

@caramelmaru

8 жыл бұрын

Sameee

@SuperSahan879

7 жыл бұрын

Aylin Alvarez me too

@freadbear9645

7 жыл бұрын

Aylin Alvarez same here

@viktorsmets29

7 жыл бұрын

Aylin Alvarez same

@Allthingstech3108

7 жыл бұрын

me too very true

Fosbury is an example where brain can win over brawn

@14thsomebodyelse

6 жыл бұрын

İt is actually when a brawn with a brain win over brawn :D

@t.p.1942

6 жыл бұрын

M.C. TRASHBAG Racist.

@TheXtremeDrums

6 жыл бұрын

T. P. ? Lol why

@Lusion

6 жыл бұрын

T. P. How is that racist you fucking idiot?

@randyevermore9323

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lusion Go easy on TP. It's the only English word he knows.

2:43 When he actually runs

@ahmedshaikh7662

7 жыл бұрын

thank you kind sir (or lady)!

@TAWPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Tonky3613 Thanks and God Bless.

@Leotique

7 жыл бұрын

thank you :)

@tazzapie2619

7 жыл бұрын

Tonky3613 thanks man

@twistup343

7 жыл бұрын

And at 6:52

I would like to see the original ABC TV coverage of Fosbury's jumps complete with the original commentary.

I have nothing but the utmost respect for Dick Fosbury. This is his legacy, changing high jump forever. Straddle!? What's that!!? This is probably where the term "setting the bar higher" came from. Top man.

Very few athletes in history, and perhaps none in our time, have changed their sports as fundamentally as Fosbury did.

@izzardclips9350

4 жыл бұрын

Jan Boklöv, who invented the "V" flying position in ski jumping.

How humble was Dick Fosbury in light of his complete rearrangement of the high-jump criteria. Good on him! MsG

To answer another poster: no, his winning height, 2.24, was not a world record, though I believe it was an Olympic and US record. The word record-holder at the time was Valery Brumel (sp?). Whose WR was 2.28. Fosbury made three attempts at 2.29 but missed on each attempt.

@theincorruptibles1279

8 жыл бұрын

Correct on all counts. Brumel's record stood until July of '71 when it was finally broken by American Pat Matzdorf.

6 жыл бұрын

anyway he changed all the history of this sport

@OrangeBroom

6 жыл бұрын

When you realize they called the jump by his last name because you cant have the dick jump going on in the olympics

@monsieurboks

6 жыл бұрын

Orange Broom Things are normally named after people's surnames rather than first names anyway, except maybe with regards to monarchs.

@77zhenry

5 жыл бұрын

@@OrangeBroom I think it would be called the Dick Flop technically.

The way he pours himself over the bar flexing his body at each point with the final kick of the feet to clear the heels Over the Bar by a hair's breadth... Perfection, but nobody needs me to tell them that

Fosbury done change the game son

Hats off to Fosbury, he single-handedly revolutionized the high jump. Also the music is by Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon.

Psychedelic music and no narrator....I like it!! Refreshing!

I bet the other high jumpers were like, oh dang why didn't I think to do it like that.

@900bz

5 жыл бұрын

They didnt do it like this because they use to land on sand or wood chips landing on your back on those could injure you

@hmoobmeeka

3 жыл бұрын

@@asdifikult the Olympics just changed to foam, but US colleges were already using foam and thats what led to fosbury using the flop technique

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

@@hmoobmeeka That is not true. When Fosbury first started using this technique he was jumping into sawdust and plane shavings. There is video on KZread showing him doing it.

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

There was no reason why they should but nobody knew that at the time. The reason the flop is now dominant has to do with the fact that it is easier to learn and teach than the straddle. The straddle is still an extremely efficient technique and gives nothing away in that regard.

@marios1861

3 жыл бұрын

@@thethirdman225 Not as efficient as the Flop. The flop is scientifically better.

A man from a small Oregon place revolutionized the technique. Incredible.

Avicii - Broken Arrow. ;)

@Burakmrtgltn

8 жыл бұрын

+Jesper Poulsen he is name dick fosbury ç.saD

@koenjansen7141

8 жыл бұрын

+Jesper Poulsen That video is historical incorrect

@MAAZ_Music

8 жыл бұрын

me too

@MAAZ_Music

8 жыл бұрын

+Koen Jansen I think his daughter didn't teach him

@EmmieGraven

8 жыл бұрын

+The EGG No it wasn't his daughter, he was in highschool when he did the fosberry flop lmao

The music choice is brilliant. It’s like getting into the minds of the jumpers.

@fanciot

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. It was an idea of the Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana). In 1988, the Italian television RAI broadcast for a whole month, during the summer, every evening, several clips of the year 1968, to celebrate that famous year as historical turning point. Clips on the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations in Paris, the Olympics in Mexico City, sexual revolution, etc. This is an original clip from the '68 Olympics RAI Archives without the old overdub comments of the Italian RAI speakers. Instead of comments, RAI decided to put Brian Eno's music. I am Italian, and I saw this live broadcast on TV in 1988

LEGEND! He LITERALLY changed the game! 💪🏾😍

Nothing brought me here..

@gdbigchicken8177

5 жыл бұрын

king of twilight lol I’m reading all the “tedED brought me here” then I see your comment

@veipuniilana1842

3 жыл бұрын

Legend

I saw this live on tv in Ohio. It was incredible to see a sport turn on its head. The strange looking flop. I love this moment in athletics and my my life. Thanks Dick Fosbury.

That is some dramatic high jump music.

Those western roll jumps are amazing!

@ryanmcgoldrick8499

4 жыл бұрын

They're basically just sissoring 2.20. It's insane.

Man, to put Brian Eno's masterpiece into that kind of stuff, you have to be a genius. Such an amazing thing, thank you.

@fanciot

3 жыл бұрын

It was the brainchild of the Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana). In 1988, RAI broadcast for an entire month during the summer, every night, several clips from 1968 to celebrate that famous year as a historical turning point. Clips about the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations in Paris, the Mexico City Olympics, the sexual revolution, etc., were shown, but with a new disclosure editing. This is an original RAI Archive clip of the '68 Olympics without the old overlay commentaries by Italian RAI speakers. Instead of the commentaries, RAI decided to put music by Brian Eno, which fits like a glove. I am Italian and saw this broadcast live on TV in 1988.

@jeshkam

Жыл бұрын

@@fanciot You Italians are geniuses. Best ideas, sports cars, best cuisine, beautiful women, italo-disco, history and fashion. Nothing but respect. 🙂

I think the beauty of executing the jump in Fosbury style deserve credits.

What a magical Olympics. Being in the western hemisphere much of it was broadcast live on American television and the athletes broke many records. Though some credited the altitude of Mexico City many of of the records set remained for decades. Fosbury's "flop" is the standard of high jumpers today.

_I totally agree with you __destin3e84__!!! I recommend this_ program im using to any athlete who wants to maximize_ _their vertical jump and quickness. I tried it myself_ _and It gave me an intense regimen and gained_ _tremendously. Thumbs up if this helps._

@TheBottomLine1986

10 жыл бұрын

_By the way, the program im talking about can be found at this redirect link i made just for you guys.._ >> www.jumphigherNow1.blogspot.com

We witnessed a revolution in high jumping and after this Olympics, NOBODY practiced the old art form

apparently the other jumpers don't have names.

@unfuzzy

5 жыл бұрын

You mean like Giacomo Crosa (0:49) ?

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

@@unfuzzy Valentin Gavrilov? Ed Carruthers?

He cleared it by a mile!!!

Possibly the best KZread video EVER.

How the heck athletes jumped before Fosbury flop! Fosbury flop changed everything! I didnt know that. I jumped always in Fosbury flop. My personal record is 1.35 metres.

@madlatvian2603

6 жыл бұрын

Are you dumb? Im a teenager.

@madlatvian2603

6 жыл бұрын

Dude! I started the sport school 2 years ago, i'm training, nothing is possible in short period.

@madlatvian2603

6 жыл бұрын

2 years is short period

@davidedmundson8402

4 жыл бұрын

Before the straddle roll (used by the other two jumpers shown) there were a number of styles used. You should look at the high jump competition from the 1936 Olympics. You'll see the western roll, a modified western roll (comes close to the straddle roll) and the strangest style of all, the Eastern Cutoff (a scissors but with an adjustment made over the bar to lower the jumper's center of gravity)

What a legacy he have created for himself. A technique that is still used to this day and going strong.

I met Ed Caruthers back in the 80s at a high school track meet, he was a great jumper, a fine teacher and very humble man.

@NB1980

Жыл бұрын

He was my PE teacher back in the 90s.

Most iconic event in Olympic history. Whenever there will be talk about high jump ,Dick fosbury will always be remembered.

RIP!! A great man and innovator. Sad he passed away today.

Talk about thinking outside the box. Dick Fosbury came up with an entirely new method, endured extreme ridicule within the sport, had the power of his own convictions, wins Gold, and ended up changing the sport forever. Definition of absolute Genius.

Dick Fosbury shows up looking like he's never been in a weight room. Drives out to the pyramids during the opening ceremony and sleeps in a van. Looks absolutely terrified before every jump. Then sets the Olympic record without touching the bar once with a completely new technique. He's a nerd hero. He won with physics.

I remember when I saw on tv at that time : "how did he do that ??? what the f** is happening there ???" You could have shown me a being from outer space in its flying saucer I wouldn't have been more flabbergasted !!!…

Inspiring. Love to see innovation happen

people always remember bob beaman's jump - but in its way this is just as significant. how long before the olympics had fosby been doing this?

According to the comments, this guy probably gained most of his views from TedED. TedED comments below date 2 yrs ago.

@Jive33

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf is TedEd?

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

The TED talk is all wrong. But if it got people to take a look at what Fosbury did, then that's a good thing for the sport.

rest in peace fosbury

Flip Flippen me trouxe aqui! Thanks, Flip!

A world record is impressive, but innovation is much greater. 😎

The jump that changed everything

Wow ... majority of people don't know about this masterpiece story .

Does anyone know who composed the music? Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Que maravillosa técnica de salto alto. Memorable momento, quizas uno de los mas significativos del deporte.

Brumel held the world record at 2.28 at the time of 68 with the normal Straddle technique already done in 1963. In 1971 another person broke that world record, again with just the straddle technique. 73 was the first year that a flop diver took the world record (Dwight jones), but in 1978 a straddle jumper again reclaimed the WR with 2.34. It has even been debated if the straddle technique is even better than the flop, but in the end many find it too hard to learn and master at a consistent level in competitions.

2020 - An epic moment in athletics

That's incredible and learned something today.

Mexico 68, first olympics transmites in color.

For an olympic final, it is amasing how many people mosy on through the takeoff area!

Love the trippy music!

It's not surprising that he stayed in the same field and he's now an engineer...

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

This has nothing to do with engineering.

You'd think, all those people walking around, walking past you, sitting down behind you etc., would destroy their concentration. That's ridiculous...

@eekamouseman

7 жыл бұрын

thats when men were men.

@brandonbuchner1771

7 жыл бұрын

You see how long they took before they finally ran? That was them focusing. Took Fosbury a LOOOONG time to finally run.

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised how much you can block out when you're really focused.

Miller101xoxo _That's right! provides 1-on-1 training so that you_ _can have a complete confidence in_ _achieving high jumps in less than_ _a month of training..:)_

@The77jimenez

10 жыл бұрын

Anyway, i forgot to write the site name. Check that here==> *www.jumphigherNow1.blogspot.com*

This is what's known as "Thinking outside the box" the world record set by Sotomayor still stands since 1993 using this technique

Ted ed brought me here... This is pretty interesting though about the mass of weight

@freadbear9645

7 жыл бұрын

Josh Mah same

fosbury the legend 👍👍👍...I truely respected you so much.

What a gracefull jump of the maestro

Proud to have met him

what is the music? I need to know!!!

@fromParis2011

8 жыл бұрын

Brian Eno : Thursday afternoon

worth mentioning that the long jump somersault, which would have revolutionised the event in the same way, was banned.

*Este carnal sorprendió al mundo* *GENIO TOTAL*

@fat3727snakess

2 жыл бұрын

nonsense language 😂😂😂😂

superb. thanks for uploading.

i still think this is one of the msot amazing innovative ideas in sport itself. It is actually almos the opposite of what our understandings in high jump were back then. Being a high jumper my self, it is quite amazing. I believe there never will be a technical change in the event as successful as dick's :)

Donde conseguiste este material audiovisual?

Fosbury is a legend...such a hard technique to use for jumping bcause every aspect of it has has to be precise...without the fosbury flop high jumping would be at a stand still competition wise...thanks dicks fosbury for helping me to clear 7'11/4" in high school in 1985 without great form

A history was made that day.

Love the music. So surreal.

Actually others had jumped with their back to the bar around the same time and before (and independent of Fosbury), like Debbie Brill of Canada and a Montana newspaper from 1959 shows a high school kid named Bruce Quande clearing a bar with his back to it...but no doubt he popularized it and had the most early success with it which made it the preferred style of the last 40 years...

fantastic video!

Legend!!

Fosberry...his psyche before going is intriguing!

The changing of the landing surface from sand to a "king size" to a taller/thicker mat had a lot to do with landing on one's back instead of feet or even side. Thankfully Dick's performance encouraged sader landing mats for jumpers and pole vaulters.

The landing cushion should be sunk into the ground, so the landing point is at level with the ground. Same for the pole vault.

This video is so chill

The chicken or the egg ? Due largely to the wider availability of foam rubber HJ landing pits (vs wood shavings), Dick Fosbury was able to safely starting using the "Fosbury Flop", the summer before his junior year Medford HS, OR (1963), Debbie Brill starting using her independently developed, "Brill Bend" around the age of 13 (@1966) in BC, Canada. However, there's no doubt that Fosbury's Olympic winning jump at Mexico City, was the "quantum leap" that changed high jumping forever. The "Fosbury Flop" made every other high jumping technique (roll, straddle) obsolete. By the 1972 Olympics in Munich, 28 out of 40 competitors in the men's HJ saw the dramatically increased potential of using the modification of the old "scissors" technique, the "flop". By 1976, virtually all men and women took up flopping and bending. Pax.

กูมาจากเพจวิเคราะห์​บอล​จริงจัง​😄

color tv in 1968?... never knew. This guy changed the game by being different. badass.

@theincorruptibles1279

8 жыл бұрын

NBC started broadcasting in color in 1954. By '68 all three major American TV networks were broadcasting in color.

@mitchmitchell2653

5 жыл бұрын

Dude, there are footage by the Third Reich in color

bel documento ... questo e' sport!

Some awesome ambient music over the top of this. Added by uploader? Added by the TV channel? Or was the stadium treated to these random electronic bleeps?

@fanciot

3 жыл бұрын

Added by the TV channel. It was an idea of the Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana). In 1988, the Italian television RAI broadcast for a whole month, during the summer, every evening, several clips of the year 1968, to celebrate that famous year as historical turning point. Clips on the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations in Paris, the Olympics in Mexico City, sexual revolution, etc. This is an original clip from the '68 Olympics RAI Archives without the old overdub comments of the Italian RAI speakers. Instead of comments, RAI decided to put Brian Eno's music. I am Italian, and I saw this live broadcast on TV in 1988

@wjon

3 жыл бұрын

@@fanciot that's amazing. Thank you! Grazie mille!

I watched this live on television as a 10 year old.

RIP Dick Fosbury, Legendary High Jumper whom technique changed the way of high jumping.

Nice job. I didn't realize Ed Caruthers wore 2 different color shoes too!

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

Most of them did. One was a specialist jump shoe, made specifically for the high jump.

@NB1980

Жыл бұрын

I haven't seen that guy since the 1990s when he was my PE teacher.

In UK too

HISTORY BEING MADE HERE

Hard to believe that it took until that year for the Fosbury Flop to become the best way to high jump! Cheer to Fosbury!

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

No, it was just a new way. It became more common because it is generally easier to learn than the straddle.

Is that Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon playing in the background?

@lukaku10832

4 жыл бұрын

Yeahh

Beamon and Fosbury in the same olympics...good year for jumpers.

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, also Jim Hines (WR - 100m), Tommie Smith (WR - 200M), Lee Evans (WR 400m) David Hemmery (WR - 400m hurdles), Viktor Saneyev (WR triple jump)...