leap of faith
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Leap of
faith
The question sometimes is the question.?
Have you ever tried high jump?
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It seems to be not so easy. And in fact, it is not.
Let’s watch a video.
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Indeed, at the1968 Olympics in Mexico it was the first time ever
someone jumped in that fashion.
Mind-blowing, huh? That’s weird.
Can you imagine how it had been before?
In the beginning it was STRADDLE, SCISSORS
etc etc ...
Let’s watch
another video.
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Straddle.
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Scissors.
Old-fashioned.Blame it on
Dick Fosbury.
Dick Fosbury
“Fearless Fosbury is a 21-year-old senior at Oregon State University with a major in civil engineering, two bad feet, a worn-out body, an unbelievable style of high-jumping head first on his back, a habit of talking to himself in midair (...)” - NY Times, Oct 20th, 1968.
In the 1960s he was an unremarkable (kid)
athlete who preferred the scissors jumping
style.
His coach would force him to use the then-
popular straddle technique.
He couldn’t have jumped more than 1.62m.
Then, when he was 16 he started scissoring again and he cleared
1.77m.
He adapted the scissors style with a twist at the
last moment before jumping.
This way he jumped 2.0m and won a national
junior championship.
He got it right and headed to Olympics in
Mexico City.
A crowded stadium, quiet spectators and an awkward movement.
The rest is history.
Experts said he’d break his neck, but...
But he broke the Olympic record and won
gold jumping 2.24m.
Anyway, it was strange. Really strange.
Fosbury evolved his technique based on
other ones he was used to.
He used a different
lens.
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There was no “eureka” moment. It took time and a series of errors
and attempts.
So that he could jump graciously.
Sometimes we have crazy ideas, awkward
thoughts and we’re the only ones who believe
on it.
We are told to be wrong, and we sometimes are.
But to those genuine things that blossom in
our thoughts.
We’d better experiment and refine it.
Fosbury Flop has changed the sport
despite skepticism from coaches and judges.
We should jump on our crazy ideas too.
That’s it.Let’s rock!