Definitions for fosbury flop
fos·bu·ry flop

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1. Fosbury flopnoun

   jumping over the bar backwards and head first

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1. Fosbury flopnoun

   A high jump technique in which the jumper arches the back over the bar.

2. Etymology: Named for Dick Fosbury, who brought the technique to light in the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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1. Fosbury flop

   The Fosbury flop is a jumping style used in the track and field sport of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City brought it to the world's attention. The flop became the dominant style of the event; before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used the straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or scissors jump to clear the bar. Though the backwards flop technique had been known for years before Fosbury, landing surfaces had been sandpits or low piles of matting and high jumpers had to land on their feet or at least land carefully to prevent injury. With the advent of deep foam matting, high jumpers were able to be more adventurous in their landing styles and hence experiment with styles of jumping.

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1. fosbury flop

   The Fosbury Flop is a style of high jump, named after American athlete Dick Fosbury, who introduced it in the 1968 Olympics. This method involves the athlete running up to the bar at an angle, then twisting and jumping backwards over the bar, landing on their back. It is considered a more efficient technique as it allows the athlete's center of gravity to pass below the bar.

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1. Fosbury Flop

   The Fosbury Flop is a style used in the athletics event of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention. Over the next few years the flop became the dominant style of the event and remains so today. Before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used the Straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or even Scissors-Jump to clear the bar. Given that landing surfaces had previously been sandpits or low piles of matting, high jumpers of earlier years had to land on their feet or at least land carefully to prevent injury. With the advent of deep foam matting high jumpers were able to be more adventurous in their landing styles and hence experiment with styles of jumping. The approach in the Flop style of high jump is characterized by the final four or five steps being run in a curve, allowing the athlete to lean into his or her turn, away from the bar. This allows the center of gravity to be lowered even before knee flexion, giving a longer time period for the take-off thrust. Additionally, on take-off the sudden move from inward lean outwards produces a rotation of the jumper's body along the axis of the bar, aiding clearance. Combined with the rotation around the jumper's vertical axis produced by the drive leg the resulting body position on bar clearance is laid out supine with the body at ninety degrees to the bar with the head and shoulders crossing the bar before the trunk and legs. This gives the Flop its characteristic "backwards over the bar" appearance, with the athlete landing on the mat on their shoulders and back. While in flight the athlete can progressively arch shoulders, back and legs in a rolling motion, keeping as much of the body as possible below the bar. It is possible for the athlete to clear the bar while his or her body's center of mass remains as much as 20 cm below it. While the Straddle style required strength in the takeoff knee and could be used by relatively burly athletes, the Flop allowed athletes of a slender build to use their co-ordination to greater effect and not risk the knee injuries which they had previously suffered from other styles.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fosbury flop in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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   The numerical value of fosbury flop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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