How One Man Changed the High Jump Forever The Olympics on the Record

[ProfessorGAC]

7. I High Jumped From 7th Grade Through HS

Everybody did the western roll, even through freshman year. (Being a contrarian, I did eastern roll. Felt more efficient & naturalto me.)
But organically, kids like me started switching to the flop.
By my junior year of HS (my final year before college), 3/4ths of the guys that made state were flopping.
Within 4 or 5 years, the roll method was becoming obsolete. By the late 70s, almost nobody was jumping any other way. About the only holdouts were guys 6'7" or taller. And, they'd get beat.
It was a brilliant application of physics and kinesiology and changed the event, not just forever, but fast!