Posts Tagged ‘Dick Fosbury’
Kenya’s epic jumpers present a history of high jumping before Dick Fosbury flopped
BEFORE Dick Fosbury (above) flopped in the mid-1960s, high jumpers took on the bar with a scissors kick. They went high. You can still clear a high bar with the old pre-Fosby method. In this video, Kenyan high school students show us how it’s done. They land in sand pits:
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