What is the Fosbury Flop?

Answer 1

The high jump method of jumping head first and landing on the back is called the Fosbury Flop.

Answer 2

The Fosbury Flop is a technique in the low high jump that contrasts with the Eastern Roll and was first used by Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics made it the dominant technique of the event as it remains today. Before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used to dive over head first, or had their own specialized techniques, such as the straddle.

The method used is to sprint diagonally towards the bar, jump off the outside foot, then curve and leap head-first, back-downwards over the bar in a rolling motion keeping as much of the body as possible below the bar. When high jumpers perform this jump, they bend their body in such a way that it is possible for the athlete to clear the bar while his or her center of mass does not. In fact, the body's center of mass can be kept as much as 20 cm under the pole.

By 1980, 13 of the 16 Olympic finalists were using the Fosbury flop. It has since been shown that, unbeknownst to Fosbury, the first person to use the flop technique was actually a jumper from Montana named Bruce Quande, who was photographed flopping over a bar in 1963.

Answer 3

Fosbury flop is a technique in high jumping where a jumper sprints diagonally towards the bar then jumps off the outside foot, curving and leaps head-first and back downward over the bar in a rolling motion keeping as much as possible his back from touching the bar. in other words, this technique is in contrast to Eastern Roll.

it is named after Dick Fosbury of US when he first used that technique during 1968 Mexico Olympics where he won the gold medal.

Answer 4

A man by the name of Dick Fosbury invented that style at the 1968 Mexico Summer Olympics. He won the gold, using that particular style at high jump.

Answer 5

martin is correct. Named for Dick Fosbury, an american high jumper who was the first to use it. I think he won a gold medal in the 1968 olympics.