1) The jump must be made off of one foot.

2) The standards holding the bar face inwards.

3) The jumper has a miss if they dislodge the bar from the standards.

4) The jumper has a miss if they break the imaginary plane between the pit and the standards.

5) Three consecutive misses at any single height result in the end of competition for that particular jumper. (McNab, 116)

The first official clearance of 6?0? was by M.C. Brooks of Oxford in 1876, this was later broken in 1891 by a 6?4 1/2? effort from an American named W. Byrd Page. (McNab, 109) The first height that was recognized, as an official world record was in 1895 an Irish American, who is thought to have invented the eastern, cut off, with a height of 6? 5 5/

On July 29, 1988 Sotomayor broke the eight-foot barrier at 10 o?clock at night at the Caribbean Zone Track and Field Championship in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Noden, 32) Another athlete has not yet duplicated that amazing feat since that night. It took 33 years for the bar to another 12 inches since that day in 1956 when the seven-foot barrier was broken and many people feel that this is the last barrier to be broken. (Noden, 33) A Puerto Rican decathlete by the name of Listoin Bochette had this to say about Sotomayor?s jump, ?That?s probably the last barrier, no one in the foreseeable future is going to put it at nine feet. I have to feel like I not only saw a record, I saw the beginning of the end.? (Noden, 33)

Dick Fosbury invented the Fosbury flop several years before he used it to win the gold in the 1968 Olympics. (LaBadessa, 83) The year was 1963 and a gangly sophomore from Oregon could not master the straddle, so on the way to a meet his coach told him to ?improvise? and that he did. (LaBadessa, 83) He did something no one has ever done he turned his back to the bar and jumped headfirst over it. (LaBadessa, 83) That was the day Dick Fosbury revolutionized the high jump. The Fosbury flop is a less complicated jump than the Straddle. Here the jumper uses a ten-step approach in a J-curve on an angle at the turn of 60 to 65 degrees. (Schmolinsky, 262) The main key to success in the ?flop? is speed during the approach. (McNab, 113) After completing the J-curve approach the jumper jumps with there outside foot and drives they?re inside leg and both arms as hard as they can to produce and upward movement. (McNab, 113) The jumpers? momentum during the curve rotates the jumpers? body while they are in the air, so that their back is to the bar and centrifugal force pulls them into the pit. (Newton?s Apple, 1) While going over the bar the jumper is in the layout position, hopefully with heir hips arched away from the bar to give as much separation as possible. (McNab, 113) From there it is all a matter of timing of when to lower ones hips to raise their legs. (McNab,113) It took a while for the ?flop? to catch on but once it did it reigned supreme and took over as the sole style of international high jumping. (Martin, Stones, Joy, and Wszola, 135) It is the style used by the current world record holder Javier Sotomayor. (Williams, 62)

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