In 1958, new rules were added to the high jump because athletes found a loophole to give themselves an advantage by wearing a shoe with a extra thick sole on their takeoff foot.
It became known as the “Built-Up Shoe”, “Orthopedic Shoe” or the “Compensated Shoe”.
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This is the Seventh addition to: THE BANNED TECHNIQUE series where we look at unorthodox or banned techniques used in Track and Field.
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These are so interesting and I can tell how much work went into them. Keep it up!!!
There were no professional athletes in 1957. You can say the Soviets were paid athletes because most were "employed" by the Army or the Police and notoriously some western athletes figured out how to make money under the table or cashing in plane tickets but rules at the time prohibited getting paid for performing. Until about the mid-70's all athletes had to have a job and compete on the side. Some left for pro sports like football (Bullet Bob Hayes) and some managed to "cash in" on their fame at the expense of future competition.
Anyone see the built up maratho running shoes
You did not get to Brumel, who was ,perhaps, the best at the stradddle technique. He could kick a basket at 10 ft.
Love this series. Hope you blow up and can do long format videos.
Dick Fosbury says: Hold my beer.
I need some science on how 2-3 cm of extra sole is making these guys jump 4 inches higher
We should have the Inventive Olympics, a completely different Olympics that allow steroids and technology enhanced equipment to see how much we can improve human performance using human ingenuity.
Russians are the most persecuted ethnic group on the planet when it comes to competition. They're the best figure skaters, the best chess players, the best mma fighters (sorry Brazil), and the best hockey players. But western juice don't like that, so they make laws and govering bodies to prevent them from competing at every opportunity.
L'equipe……….lay keep. (I don't know how to put l'accent aigu, pretend it's there)
This is a cool video series. And how it's not like 20 minutes long like so many videos nowadays.
If they apply that law to Hollywood, half the actors would lose their job.
3:20 That French publication's title is pronounced "lay-KEEP".
You say that the article starting the drama featured a photo wherein Stepanov's shoes seemed to have a thicker sole but how thick was it actually?
They don't even jump like this anymore. They do the Fosbury Flop !
I remember getting within an inch of the state high jump record for my grade when I was in track. I kept just barley hitting the bar with my butt. Another half inch I probably would've got the record and having a raised shoe would've done it for sure.
I remembered it was 5'6" 7th grade and the highest I could jump was 5'5" something like that.
Don Gordon, inventor of the port-a-pit, had the greatest impact on high jumping (and vaulting) of anyone in history. Strange because foam rubber had been commercially available for over twenty years prior to his idea of putting it in a bag for soft landings.
Let them build their shoes up until the size of shoe becomes a hindrance. See what happens. The IAAF didn't let this grow to any reasonable or unreasonable outcome. There were only Soviets and a couple of Americans traying this. See where this goes. Maybe require them to wear identically styled shoes on each foot, so it is actually a shoe and not a tool on their jumping foot.
I say let it ride until a clear outcome shows itself. Swimming decided to limit the amount of fabric after a gozillian records were beaten with the full bodied "shark-skin" fabric that has lower friction than human skin does. Well at least they let it ride until everyone was doing it and saw what the outcome was. I disagree with the ruling, but they allowed the outcome to show itself.
In 1996(?), or maybe '97, Bobby Bowden communicated with QB Thad Busby in an FSU game via radio in his helmet. ESPN even made a big positive about this in their broadcast as FSU let them listen in on some of their communication and they played it on air. This was just like the NFL had been doing for a season or two. Quickly, the NCAA outlawed it. It is still against the rules. The NFL allows two players (one of offense and one on defense) to have a helmet radio on the field. This has added to the sport. Given the noise in a stadium, it has aided in-between play communication between the coach and field captain. (It does turn off a few seconds before the play clock ends or upon the snap, so there is no communication via radio during the play.) The NCAA has limited a reasonable innovation in a sport in which the radios would often be cheaper than the pads and helmet that the QB is wearing. Even if a very expensive encrypted radio is selected, then the cost of a few sets of pads or a new set of workout equipment would eclipse the cost. I say this to make the case that the radios would not be too expensive for any Division 1 school. The culture of football is to verbally call in plays and only in the last generation have encoded signs been sent in. So the established culture of the sport is not like baseball's 150 years of secret signs. It fundamentally changes baseball to have catcher radios. It only improves the existing method in football.
A half inch is 12. 77mm, not 1,27mm.
I have been binge watching a lot of your videos… and every intro when you say "safety of the the spectators" with the spinning dart clip, I crack! hahahahha
Last time I wore rocket-powered shoes, I easily jumped 8,000m. I only stopped coz I couldn't breathe if I went higher
Should have practiced with kramers vertical leap training shoes
Insane to ban!!