[HN Gopher] Discovering Diverse Athletic Jumping Strategies
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       Discovering Diverse Athletic Jumping Strategies
        
       Author : homarp
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-04-23 09:25 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arpspoof.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arpspoof.github.io)
        
       | schemescape wrote:
       | Did they cover different running/approach strategies as well? (I
       | didn't see it, but I thought that would be interesting as well)
        
       | npilk wrote:
       | Very interesting. I guess it shouldn't be too surprising that the
       | Fosbury Flop seems to be the optimal high jump method, even if it
       | wasn't developed until the 1960s.
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       | I didn't see the link to the video with animations at first! It's
       | here in case anyone else missed it:
       | https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~kkyin/papers/HighJumps.mp4
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       | Which made me revisit this classic:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaEE27nsQw
        
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