Fosbury flop

His signature high jump move would become known as the "Fosbury Flop."

The Fosbury Flop is a style used in the athletics event of high jump.

The straddle technique was the dominant style in the high jump before the development of the Fosbury Flop.

He jumps off his left foot, using the Fosbury Flop technique, with a pronounced backwards arch over the bar.

Known for his truly graceful execution of the Fosbury flop technique, he made clearing the bar look somewhat effortless.

Despite the initial skeptical reactions from the high jumping community, the "Fosbury Flop" quickly gained acceptance.

The reason why every high jumper now uses the Fosbury Flop is because of the way the centre of gravity works.

This competition still used a mixture of the straddle technique and the newer Fosbury Flop technique.

The more popular and more widely used Fosbury Flop technique was the most common technique used.

A skill such as high jumping can then be refined into a competitive technique like the Western roll or the Fosbury Flop.

The Fosbury Flop style relies on speed, more specifically a jumper's ability to sustain his or her acceleration over the last few strides.

Although both have advantages and disadvantages, the Fosbury flop is considered by many easier to learn, especially for younger jumpers, and thus has become the dominant technique.

He revolutionized the high jump event, inventing a unique "back-first" technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop, adopted by almost all high jumpers today.

The technique gained the name the "Fosbury Flop" after a reporter for a Medford newspaper wrote that he looked like a, "fish flopping in a boat."

After he used this Fosbury flop to win the 1968 Olympic gold medal, the technique began to spread around the world, and soon floppers were dominating international high jump competitions.

When high jumpers perform a "Fosbury Flop", they bend their body in such a way that it clears the bar while its center of mass does not necessarily clear it.

Of the 16 finalists in the mens high jump (all having qualified with jumps of 2.21 on 31 July), thirteen used the Fosbury Flop style, and three used the classic straddle.