How One Man Changed the High Jump Forever | The Olympics on the Record
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High jumper Dick Fosbury surprises the world and revolutionized the jump with his "Fosbury Flop" at the Olympic Games Mexico City 1968.
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bruh he literally just joined the Olympics to try his new technique and never came back.
What a LEGEND 😂
A pioneer
A pioneer unlike your commenting abilities.
This was actually very common at the time. The Olympics were amateur only then and most American athletes were college students who competed once and then went on with their professional/non Olympic lives.
@@Globalgenocide daddy chill
True chad
To win a Gold Medal is one thing. To change the way the sport is done is even better!
Plus he won the gold medal.
He LITERALLY changed the game. And had the technique named after him too
it was natural that someone will come up with it one day while exercising ..
to leave and never return after the gold...
@@rc-pf1wq break the world record also during the process ... legend!!!
stays chill, does a bit of travelling, reimagines a sport for modern times, retires. What a king.
He retired because he wasn’t a great athlete. He won not because of his athletic skills but his brain.
@@organizedchaos4559 Sit down, you clearly have no idea how sporting culture was in 1960's, saying he had no athletic skill is just dumb.
retired and his name lives on forever
@@organizedchaos4559 He implemented and idea that was in his brain in reality and jumped and won gold. Because he had the best skills
@@organizedchaos4559 and u achieved in your life..nothing
Someone: You couldn't Jump over a Chair
Fosbury: "I will Jump Over History"
History is in the past and time travel isn’t possible you mullet paddler
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@shazzthedon XD
The best comment I have read on CZcams 😁
@@tempest3927 nice counter. 👍
The real "Trust me, I'm an engineer" example
as an engineer i agree with you bro....
@@yogazzz9042 respect
@@yogazzz9042 engineer from tf2
"that means i solve problems"
Underrated comment.
"He applied some mechanics." Proceeds to pan images showing electromagnetics, Einstein's equation, cosine angles. Man, that's a lot of stuff for just a high jump.
Well trig is used in mechanics
@@gamer2241 trig is used practically everywhere -.-
VulpineKitsune not my point I know it is
I thought it was a Starbucks recipe.
Yeah, I agree with you
Fosbury literally raised the bar
Deserves more likes. Nice one👍🏻
@@iamthebroker thanks. You made my day.
@@iamthebroker I second that.
Best comment 🔥
A like from Brasil Best comment ever! Jsut knew about his passing. RIP!
he's like that one guy who's absent in all of the lectures but still topped the class 😂🙌 WHAT A LEGEND
Nah, that was John Nash.
and did not attend the next grade
😂🙌🙌😂🙌🙌😂😂😂😂🙌😂
It's a good thing they didn't name the technique after his first name.
Yeah, great they didn't name it the Richard flop
@Tyler Do they still hand out free internets? Cuz you should have one.
lol. Tyler, if you're not a Brit or Ozzie, I'll eat my hat.
@@Jin-Ro I'm an American, of Irish descent. You may want to marinate that hat for a while before grilling.
Richard Douglas Fosbury
Comes to the Olympics just to try if can jump over that thing with his technique and never comes back...What a g lmao
his not back because in next game all use his technique and jump much higher then him
@@tihomirrasperic Doesn’t matter. The guy revolutionised the sport. No one knows by heart the name of the people who won after him. Every high jump athlete in the world knows his name.
when you drop the mic...you don't pick it back up.
Lol right? What got me was the fact dude couldn’t even jump over a chair a couple years before then goes on to win gold lmaoooo. I literally can’t even imagine how his friends that bet him that felt after seeing him win that lmaaaooooo
@@jamesgokux That is called a pioneer actually. He wasn't a good jumper, or athlete to be honest, and he knew it, however he was very smart and unafraid to try new things, therefore he revolutionized the sport. He had one chance of winning cause once ppl adopted his technique they were just better than him, so he took it, he won and he became a legend.
I was 17 in 1968 when Fosbury did his Flop. It was a thing to behold. Remember, no one had ever seen such a beautiful thing like that before. It was artistic and truly beautiful. And the audience was mesmerized by everything Fosbury did. People just wanted to see it again and again. It was truly the most remarkable Track and Field event of the age.
What a great experience to see that live! I was born in 1971, but heard the name over and over every 4 years.
my school didn't have a foam landing surface then. just sawdust and sand.
Just to be a bit sombre, the Olympics do not seem to have the same magic as it did back in those days.
3:13 the guy in the background with the hat literally gaping
How did he qualify without anyone seeing it?
This guys experimented his technique in Olympic championship and then left 😂
And that makes him legendary and iconic🤣😂😅
😂 😂 like a boss
He never even practiced. He already knew he could sail over those with ease.
I suppose he knew better jumpers would come. He was the engineer. He proven his point. He quit while he was on top. He is still the legend.
Hold my beer while i get an olympic gold medal
He really raised the bar!
like literally
So bad it's good.
I think he was a flop !!
ಠ_ಠ
👍🏾
Narrator: 'He didn't like to practice, he was a loner ⭐ he missed the opening ceremony to drive out to see the pyramids, watching the sunset & sleeping in a van.' 🌇 I'm starting to believe he joined the Olympics cause he wanted a free getaway for the weekend 🤎
Must be college credits !!!
He sounds like he is an AQURIUS🙃
A true sigma male
Thats bullshit though. No one can jump 2.24 without a lot of training
2:45
The last frames of the video with him smiling is a 10/10 ending.
I'm amazed how high these guys were jumping *before* the Fosbury flop!
Outland he did so poor with straddle even with college level. It took a full year to convince his coach to let him jump in his own way (he used fosbury’s flop to get into the college but his coach didn’t allow him to use it until he desperately beg the coach
Check out the Kenian high jump on CZcams, pretty amazing stuff
crazier yet, the WR with the straddle was done about 10 years *after* Fosbury won the Olympics, it was by Vladimir Yashchenko, he jumped 2.35m (7'8½"), that's the highest jump using the straddle
2.22mtrs
The way they jumped before, plus landing on hard ground instead of a padded landing... Wow! How did they manage not to break or sprain their ankles? Padded mats were also a nice idea!
He misses the opening ceremony, drives out to see the pyramids, while watching the sunset and then sleeps in his van.... I like this guy. Using his chance to experience the real Mexico! I would have done the same cuz it sounds awesome!
Did it happen? I doubt it. There were riots in Mexico City during the 1968 Olympics. Athletes were generally confined to the Olympic village.
Well he was a civil engineer
@@spacegupta71 ...not a biomechanist...
@@thethirdman225 Riots? You call it riots? Have some respect for the people of the 68 movement.
@@lopez.jacinto.6726 Well, no disrespect intended but I knew people who were there (they're mostly dead now).
One of the most influential track and field athletes of all time. RIP.
Better than a gold metal is to be immortalized forever. RIP.
He really had to be a unique individual to A) Come up with something this counter-intuitive B) Perfect it C) Go use it on the biggest stage in the face of convention. Amazing.
and D) actually manage to win a gold medal.
I wouldn't say it's counter intuitive but we have already been exposed to the idea so we don't know.
And then quit!
@@graham1158 *and set an Olympic record!
it was illegal..so it wasnt done in competition
Fosbury: This is how you do it kids.
* Then left the olympics like a boss.
actually high quality footage from 1968.
"Pfft you're an engineer, and everyone knows white bois can't jump."
"Hold my slide rule."
Comes to the Olympics just to try if can jump over that thing with his technique and never comes back...What a g lmao
Honestly I aspire to be like him, if I can.
“...he missed the opening ceremony to drive out to see the pyramids, watching the sunset and sleeping in a van” (2:43)
Totally boss like behaviour.
Great piece! My grandfather was the first athlete to try the "Western Roll" technique in Canada- and held the Canadian high jump record for 8 years! Don't forget back in the 1940's that high jumpers landed on sawdust instead of pads. Ouch.
Who’s your grandfather?
That’s nifty, now why don’t you invent your own roll instead of spouting someone else’s!
@@stevenskibniewski9737 haha
Sawdust would actually be soft with enough of it. That was straight up wood chips!
Sawdust would have made for a very painful landing using Fosbury, for sure! You literally land on your head and shoulders
As soon as I saw the title of the video, I knew it was about the 'Fosbury Flop'. I was a young teenager when I saw it. It was amazing to see at the time. Thanks for the memory. 👍🏿
actually high quality footage from 1968.
Potatoes just hadn't been invented yet
LutherBlissett94 lmao
Because it was shot on film.
35mm is pretty much equivalent to 4K, and that's not even 70mm (~12K).
Thinking the same. Or some great re-touching.
>Barges into Olympics to try out his new trick
>Wins, forever changing the sport
>Refuses to elaborate further
>Leaves
Giga chad
> back home dies jumping over his back jard hedge landing on the concrete pavement neckfirst
Sigma Male Grindset
Undeniably based
Literal legend XD
It truly is the only cool way to jump. Athletic, elegant, and technical. Watching it on TV is one thing, I've seen the bar in person set at only 2 meters and had a newfound respect for these jumpers. It is scarily high.
This was the year after I graduated High School and I remember it well. Those of us at home watching it on TV thought it was a weirdest thing ever and that he would hurt himself somehow. What a brilliant guy!
Those other guys were jumping as high as him without that technique, he knew he had no chance in the next games lmao Brilliant though
Pretty much! The best of part of his technique is how he clearly kept it a secret amongst himself and maybe a few other people. If anyone else professional had seen him do it with enough time to practice, a superior athlete would surely have won.
True that. Hide your strength, bide your time
But what a venue to give a technique presentation.
Jonathan Wotka Or it would have been banned.
It's funny cuz when he joined the Olympics, he wasn't as trained as his competitors. He may have mastered the jump, but is not an athlete. He's an engineer and was able to beat athletes with physiques way above his level using math.
I never considered that there must have been somebody who did this for the first time and just blew away the competition. Human ingenuity is a remarkable thing.
like most of the best inventions once are shown off you wonder why no one thought of it before as it seems so obvious after the fact
Ever heard of Jackie Moon?
You must be young.
@@lordomacron3719 A lot of inventions are like that, though this one doesn't seem obvious. It sure works, though!
I was a high jumper in High School from 1964-1968, and the 'Flop' was a natural progression from the 'Scissor' technique when sawdust landing pits evolved into foam rubber and you no longer needed to land on your feet.
I'm 71 and will forever remember him. Thank you.
i like ppl like him...u come ..u show them how's its done....nd then u leave...Absolute GOAT like
I was 11 at the time and I remember my dad coming home from work one day saying hey let's watch the Olympic track and field, I hear there is an American kid doing a backwards high jump that they are calling the Fosbury flop that looks like he might win the gold. It was quite the sensation.
Yes I was in grade 10 in a small school in South Africa, 150 pupils. Our sports teacher told us about it and I started it too, coming second in our local competition. But my buddy went on and won the regional competition.
It revolutionize the world's high jump.
Yeah. I remember this too. I was about 16.
.
whats your age now....
that's a lot of life experience in this comment.
Fosbury Flop more like Fosbur win
"he did maths... We need some math pictures! What? No I don't care if the pictures don't show math related to our topic..."
It was not even maths,but physics and that also related to photoelectric effect and thermodynamics
aryaman pande well physics apply math but I understand
7999+1=9=8000
x EiiNFacH physics not maths. They are two different things
Sokka's Wife just read the comment of 'unknown truth' and I don't have to answer your statement :P
I remember seeing Fosbury's wonderful innovation on TV when I was in high school! It was such a change and everyone held their breath when he came up in the rotation! Thrilling!
Rest in Peace to the biggest innovator of the sport
imagine going into the Olympics once, winning and having everyone from now on doing your method
Very impressive.
3:12 Judge’s open mouthed awe.
Yessss. I thought I was the only one who noticed it :D
Wait ! That's illegal !
Teacher - that was out of syllabus
Fosbury - this is the syllabus now
❤️ True legend ❤️
Bro literally came, changed the sport forever and dipped, that is a legend move
Every P.E teacher lives and dies by this story
Why are your P.E. teachers dying by this story?
@@wweeks school shootings :(
@@wweeks Tough school!
@@badcornflakes6374 Perfect answer for a brain-dead question.
1968-2018-50 years olympian's have used the tech. 1 olympic game 1gold never to return!! THAT IS LEGEND!
Greatest explanation of work smart not hard
TrAiLeR SqUaD Both.
HOW ABOUT DO BOTH AND MAYBE LAST LONGER
He did work hard to finding that technique
even though he worked smart by coming up with this technique he still needed to train physically
We were forced to learn the 'western roll' even though we had new foam pits. I hurt myself quite a bit doing those things. Then we all started doing the Fosbury Flop and added like 6 inches immediately to heights we could clear.
Gold is just a medal for him.. He changed the definition of entire high jump sports
"Wow." - Owen Wilson
“Wow.” - Eddy Wally
"meme" - Everyone
Matthew Harcourt “Hotel” - Trivago
"STFU" -Abraham Lincoln
"Wow." - Lightning McQueen
He entered the Olympics to experiment with a weird technique he came up with as an engineer, used it to win gold, set a world record and change an entire sport; then left like nothing happened, not only that but he had better things to do during the opening ceremony, what a legend!
dont forget the mismatch shoes he worn. lol
The Real Sportsmanship, The World ever seen. He applied his knowledge of Physics, just not only to change the Technique but participated as for Better to say that He showed and let The World Learn how ease it is in this way a high jumper could let him/her fly over the bar. Thank you Sir. No one could remain but the Technique that you invented would last till the end. Thanks for sharing this video. I myself was a jumper during high school levels and my coach taught me this technique but just a few minutes ago, your sponsorship let me know who and how it was applied. Tnx again.
I remember watching it live. Those were the days!
This shows how engineers can win Olympic medals
There's hope for me yet!
yes they can, but do they have the physical capability to do so? not always
zaidan esem that's what I was trying to prove. Pen is mightier than sword. This guy used his brains to win the medal not his physical capabilities.
Jinu George except the guy was still very physically capable lol. You don't make a 2.24 high jump with just brain.
Nom Sauce he was not Olympic level physical. Compared to the other athletes he was not that fit.
Random dude: "I bet you couldn't jump over a chair!"
Fosbury: "Hold my beer"
Breaks hand
Hold my nuts
He never drank.
Splints hand
For all we know he still never jumped over a chair lol
We lost this legend today 12/3/23 he literally changed the sport single handed. RIP champ
RIP legend
What a legend, came once and changed everything.
That was the awesome moment for him
haryanvi dubbed videod K
And it looks like he could have easily added at least few more centimeters.
It does not take millions of people to brake the mold. Just one lonely smart guy with an idea.
haryanvi dubbed videos says:
"That was the awesome moment for him"
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Not only to hm but all the spectators on the stands.
Some of them still keep the ticket and tell friends that he saw it as it happened.
That day, the history was made.
53 years later, they still say his name. Legends are made of this.
No one remembers Mat though.
I started track and field in high school in my sophomore year as a high jumper in 1984. Learned the Fosbury Flop. Cool to see the actual Fosbury Flop. Thanks Olympics CZcams channel!
Dare to think different. This is one of my favorite Olympic stories.
Really a champion with mind
L
this guy literally nerded himself into an olympic victory
...into Olympic history,to be precise...
"I think quite a few kids will begin trying it my way now"
Well buddy, it's the whole world, not just a few kids 😂
Wow! What memories. I was 12 and remembered the Fosbury Flop as soon as I saw the title of this video.
That is why i support Nerds to play Sports. They not only win Gold, but change the very Dynamics of the Game itself.
Im still waiting for that flexible javelin from the Revenge of the Nerds to catch on.
@@blackened144 What am I missing?
There are Nerds in Sports. They are the Coaches and the Crew behind the scenes who come up with the team strategy and best way for their athletes to train and so on.
CHUCKLES Go Nerds!!
@@FreemitiveD olympic.
Wait...2m20..legs first? What
ikr? thats just insane
Kid at my highschool was good for 2.05 with a scissor.
WR at the time was 2.28, which is insane
I'm not an athlete but I could jump at least a meter and a half. I think that is the limit an ordinary human can do.
That was the scissors and a modified version called the Eastern Roll. Early on you were not allowed to go over the bar head first. It was foul, called diving. It was tricky to do the Western roll so as to not go head first. IIRC the Belly roll could not catch on till that rule was dropped.
I'll never forget those 68 Olympics. Watched a color TV for the first time. I was a young high jumper myself doing the straddle and landing in dirt. When I saw Fosbury jump I couldn't believe my eyes. I still don't understand it to be honest.
wow ! he changed the whole concept of the game 🥺 that's why mechanical physics is really amazing to discover the news of thinking about regular processes
As an Civil Engineering Student myself, the dude literally applied structural mechanics and changed the sport. Now here i am trying to get better at material science...
Yes, but among dentists we have Mark Spitz and the inventor of the first PC [it had no keyboard]
@Mr KREAL
two hinged arch
"Structural mechanics" falls under the discipline of statics. As he was in motion, this was a dynamics problem. Just saying.
He was there to experiment for his engineering thesis. Professors marked remotely on tv, way before the internet . Got gold. He passed. It wasn't a flop. Nothing more to prove. Mic drop...
Well it was a flop.....
@@tarunrathitra1158 i see what you did there
Would have been even better if he did this for his final research paper and wanted to do the DEMO.
The thesis had one sentence. "Watch me on TV."
Brain Vs. Brawn... The brain will always win. He came, taught the world a new technique, pretty much overhauled the sport, and never returned!👍👍👏👏👏
Proper intro and greater ending scene of Fosbury smiling
He just used olympics to experiment his technique , won a gold and never returned what a Legend ...
Stop copying comments my guy.
3:12 that officials face, he's so amazed
My older brother was a track star in HS in 1968, so this was a huge deal in my house. Never forget The Fosbury Flop!
This real life story is better than any scripted story you could possibly made... Dude joined olympics just to try his technique and after he won he never comes back just like a legend who passed by.
1968-2018-50 years olympian's have used the tech. 1 olympic game 1gold never to return!! THAT IS LEGEND!
Not quit. 1972 winner Jüri Tarmak used straddle.
actually high quality footage from 1968.
Fosbury has a 100% win rate at the olympics
I love those stories about techniques people are perfecting over and over until an unknown player comes up with a brand new strategy and revolutionise the whole thing.
There's more than one way to win at sport... that's what makes it so great! 💡😄
Rest In Peace sir. Amazing athlete.
That's the way to do a sport! Compete only once, win, revolutionize the game, and leave smiling. Great video
It's even more impressive when they land on their feet ...
Tony Eatinsky ...that's figure skating
I remember learning all of the different styles of high jumps when I was in elementary school. I instantly fell in love with the Fosbury Flop and was the only kid who had the guts to try it. After one bad practice jump, I realized that I needed to run faster and lift my feet. I quickly caught on and won the competition in my Phys Ed class. Unfortunately, I had very short legs and couldn't compete at the high school level, so I ran cross country instead.
noob
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Learn from hinata
amazing story, this should make a movie out of it
I think adding the mat was key. You wouldn't even attempt it without one.
I didn't realize they ever did it without a mat. Yikes! How did they manage not to break or sprain their ankles on the landing?
@@rowanaforrest9792 Well, well, just looked it up. Mats and Frosby Flop both were 1968. 2 innovations at once. It wouldn't really be fair to compare the earlier ones to it.
@@JonCombo I wasn't comparing the Fosbury Flop to the older techniques. I'd just forgotten what the older techniques were and remarked that the landing looks terribly hard on the ankles. Some tough athletes! :)
@@rowanaforrest9792 I meant more in a general sense. It's like 2 different sports. I'm sure some of the earlier guys thought about doing it similar to the Flop, but weren't ever going to take that drop.
I always thought "cool stuff they're doing, but when I want to jump over sth I cannot do it this way, I'll just hit the ground afterwards". It's fun to watch but it's not really high jump it's high jump in that one specific technique. It's nice to know that they started like normal people jump
Never knew about this.. He made a name for himself in that only Olympic which he participated for the first and last time
He got mad because they didn't rename the Olympics "The Fosburys".
he and bob beamon were the record breakers in their time
Hi name will live on for a long time.
"Pfft you're an engineer, and everyone knows white bois can't jump."
"Hold my slide rule."
SexJunkle racist
@SexJunkle ageist
@@wafuls5781 racism is good
Based Obi Wan
I met him for 5 hours and had a chance to shake hands.
I was 18 then, now 61, still admiring that guy.
In fact, he was cool.
I was a kind of jealous, because all the girls fell for him. They liked the body😜😱.
We now need a reverse hero: one that can jump higher than everyone else, but uses the wrong technique. Then he wins and everyone starts jumping wrong again.
Know the people are jumping that way because it gives better results. If someone uses a wrong technique and wins and other athletes Are not able to follow the suit then pretty much they will stop doing it. I think you would know this but still, These athletes are not alone, they watch videos and STUDY physics about the sport and guess what, they have coaches. Unless some coach comes up with a better technique I don’t see the future of high jump style change anytime soon.
I always thought that the flips they do in gymnastics could be used as an approach to the bar in high jump. I just assumed that the flop was the only technique that was allowed.
that has to be an Russian. Those guys have the whole country of people doing wrong things, and yet still they're sure the country is moving forwards
@@superfluityme aba-aba aba-aba
I ran track most of my life...for me the High Jump was always the most amazing event to watch live. I would stand down near the pit and see that bar set up around 7 feet and think there is NO FREAKING way someone can get over that bar...it's just amazing...and the WR is over 8 feet...just incredible!
I was an athlete when I was a teenager (in long-jump) in Greece. A friend of mine used the Fosbery style in 1966, as an amateur. Nobody noticed because I think it was not allowed,
Damm your prob 70+ now
What a characteristic American genius-- seemingly an amateur without much training but thinking and doing things in a way no one has ever thought about, and beat all the professionals!
They need to make a correction to the narrative. Fosbury was NOT wearing mismatched running shoes. He was wearing one regular track spike and, on his take off foot, an Addidas "Katapult" high jump shoe that had spikes in the heel and well as the forefoot. They were only sold separately. I know because I jumped competitively with one of those between 1973 and 1975. It was only a bit later that Puma manufactured high jump shoes in matched pairs. I switched from straddling to the flop in 1971. Fosbury was my hero. I ended up coaching high school high jumpers for 16 seasons, in part because of the inspiration he provided.
Nike should come out with an Air Fos One.
😂🤣
Please let them be mismatched.
He was wearing Adidas. First generation modern athletic running shoes. I had a pair of similar I purchased in the early 1970s and where my first running shoes when I started in 1977.
😂😂😂
That would be a great success in Hungary, cuz in hungarian "fos one" as in "fos van" means "got diarrhea"
When engineer enters, efficiency increases.
Probably one of most touching moments in sport
May he rest in peace.
3:12 Those guys are staring at him like "by God what did you just do"
"Some people are born to bring revolution, they are known as Legends."
That smile at the end was fantastic!
1:06
That's actual kind of amazing.
Man's a legend. What a madlad.
the Fosbury flop never would had happened if they didn't let the jumpers land on a foam pad, if the jumpers before would had done the fosbury they would be dead from falling 7 ft onto their head
They had started using sand pits before the foam pads, and you can fall onto your back. It probably would've been fine.
The problem is that during a drawn out competition you would have to fall on your back again and again and again... By the time, you'd actually get to the heights where the flop's extra height would be relevant, you'd be too beaten up to continue.
You're saying that olympic atheletes would let something like pain stop them? What planet are you from?
Jarthen Greenmeadow back pain? Yes. Track Athletes take knee,hip, and back injuries very seriously
jed black I know, right? haha. That's exactly what I'm thinking. This jumping technique needs a cushion to land. xD
Sometimes these stories makes you really happy from inside.
I remember seeing him in 68, the Fosbury Flop changed the high jump forever.
I wish i had time machine so i could go back and see all the history ive missed..