How high could Bubka have vaulted?
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so aliens didn't land in roswell???
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altius wrote:Part of the problem on this forum is that every now and then myths are presented as fact. In his otherwise good post PVPHD states that in Seoul Bubka hit the bar pretty hard on his winning jump. Well the video evidence provided by the official IAAF film is that he did not touch the bar on that jump, although he got pretty close on the way down!
My memory of the vault is of him hitting it on the way down also, but I just watched it a week ago and it is clean.
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Thought I might throw in a few tid-bits…you didn’t mention the reason bubka had to run from 16 steps was because of the short runway.. and because he had to adjust his run he had steve miller, who worked for nike at the time “catchâ€Â
Thought I might throw in a few tid-bits…you didn’t mention the reason bubka had to run from 16 steps was because of the short runway.. and because he had to adjust his run he had steve miller, who worked for nike at the time “catchâ€Â
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Part of the problem on this forum is that every now and then myths are presented as fact. In his otherwise good post PVPHD states that in Seoul Bubka hit the bar pretty hard on his winning jump. Well the video evidence provided by the official IAAF film is that he did not touch the bar on that jump, although he got pretty close on the way down!
OOPS! Thanks for the correction, Alan. My recollection was that he hit the bar hard on that jump - but I should have checked the video. It must have been on an earlier clearance. Anyway - he almost didn't make it to the awards stand in 1988!
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Howdy DJ
Every time I have initially disagreed with you (especially when you coached me before South Africa) I've always been proven wrong so I just gave up and started asking you and then listening. One sign of a good coach or athlete is the willingness to abandon certain beliefs when proven wrong. Thanks to all of you for keeping my mind open!! Bubba
Every time I have initially disagreed with you (especially when you coached me before South Africa) I've always been proven wrong so I just gave up and started asking you and then listening. One sign of a good coach or athlete is the willingness to abandon certain beliefs when proven wrong. Thanks to all of you for keeping my mind open!! Bubba
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well this one time, standing next to Bubka in line at a meet, he told me that he jumped a 30 ft bungee, well he didnt say he 'cleard' it, but he said he just grazed it....
DJ nicely put!
DJ nicely put!
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[quote="dj"]Hey Bubba
but they did not/do not have the horizontal speed at take off to create the proper parabola on the jumps they were/are that high in the air.. but do we change the model to fit a slower athlete… no we teach the “modelâ€Â
but they did not/do not have the horizontal speed at take off to create the proper parabola on the jumps they were/are that high in the air.. but do we change the model to fit a slower athlete… no we teach the “modelâ€Â
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