mostly agree wrote:
not that simple wrote:What makes the writer think that the basketball player could coordinate a the act so that the apex of his jump occurred exactly as he crossed the plane of the bar?
The writer is dismissing the technique. However, the basketball player did jump entirely over a mascot+basketball on the dunk in question. There's no doubt about the raw potential of the NBA dunkers for the HJ. Here's videos of the NBA players dunking and a team USA HJ athlete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3qJFjlDvKYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKRatD6yUdA
It is pretty interesting to think about if they spent as much time practicing HJ technique as they have for bb skills.
bb is a skills-based sport for the most part (aside from being tall of course).