This is Josh Lodge on Australian high jumper.

What's your personal best?

I don't know.

Two minutes 22.

That's pretty high.

The world record is sort of my off from Cuba.

It's about this high eight foot and 1/2 an inch to 45 uh, same hot as a full full men's volleyball net.

Can you tell me about what it's like to be a high jumper?

Just really fun, Like everyone who sees it I know always wants to do it, right?

Yeah, exactly.

So can you teach me to jump us eyes here?

Ah, you know, uh, you know is that you can tell me about the technique that all the modern high jumpers use.

So they do the first B flops, so that's with the J curve to run up, generally have a a straight ish sort of pot.

And then the last part of the run up is because it's half straight, half have curved.

Yeah, so that you can have more speed and it puts you in the right position, too.

Then get the rotation on.

Go over on your back.

And what?

What do you take off on?

You take off when you left foot?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

You can only really think about one thing.

Drive up that, like, tell people to drive up that way.

What did I do wrong, man?

How much time do we wait?

You started on the wrong foot.

Come on.

You get this.

So before the Fosbury flop, the main technique that people use was ah, straddled.

Yeah, the straddle.

Or I think it was also known as the Western roll.

With that technique, athletes came on a much sharper angle to the bar in a straight line, and they took off from their leg closest to the box.

And, um, did they go up front words or where they went over the bar on on their front, They still required some sort of mats for the straddle.

But you was, uh that was another one.

That was from the days when you had to land on your feet for days of sawdust.

So I think that was more like before the fifties, pretty much the same as the takeoff to us before.

And then you just land on your feet.

Yeah, You land on your feet.

It's a really old one.

And that's what they did when they didn't have any mats.

So really, adding the Matt really changed the way people jump.

Yeah, Yeah, on Obviously without having to worry about landing safely, they could They could jump regretting the physics of it.

Why is the Fosbury flop the superior technique?

Well, I heard that it it allows your center of mass actually passed underneath the bar.

Your entire body clears the bar, but not all at once.

So you're keeping like your legs and your arms sort of underneath the bar.

If you average where your center mass is it, it's under the bar.

Where is, like the other techniques they seem Thio, You know, you have to have your whole center mass cleaning the bar.

So technically, it's it's harder like you.

You're getting your mass up higher in order to clear the bar.

Yeah, that would make sense because with the straddle technique, when you go over, you've got half your body going over the bar all at once.

Yeah, whereas in the flop My coach used to talk about it like a host.

So the water coming out of a hose, you only need to get each bit above the bar at the right time.

As opposed to a love it at once, huh?