Why aren't you allowed to jump off two feet in the high jump

Yeah it makes no real sense that it's not allowed. It's much harder to get competitively high off two feet front flip for example than just normal technique, and only really suits people who have garbage one foot flop technique. Like I can jump 15-20cm higher two foot front flipping. But that wouldn't be getting me anywhere.

I'm pretty sure if I trained and had decent technique I would jump much higher doing it the normal way. Just the two foot approach suits me to naturally do as I'm tall and can jump high.

If someone can somehow manage to beat everyone doing it, then great, it would be advancing the event. The way it is atm if someone beats it off two legs the WR wouldn't the highest jump, it would just the one leg highest jump.

Funny enough there used to be standing high jump, and that was off two legs, and I'm pretty sure you can jump off two legs in the long jump, but I presume that couldn't possibly be beneficial, as in jump off two feet you lose a lot of forward momentum.

any decent international higher jump could fairly easily get over 2m and land on two feet.

No one is stopping some YouTubing athletic wiz from seeing if they can clear a higher bar with other techniques.

If they allowed jumping off two feet, that would be an unfair two feet advantage compared to ground jumpers.

Jumping off of two legs in the long jump is not allowed.

Heres a video of someone clearing 10’ 3” in the high jump using a front pike somersault jumping off of 2 feet, (also rotating 180 degrees):

Occasionally, as a protest, a world class swimmer will swim the entire 50m race underwater, like a whale, and win handily but get disqualified. “Freestyle” indeed.

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I see kids in AAU track high jump that way… I think it’s legal, right?

There is clearly a springboard under that mat. that is why it is thicker at the end there, to hide the springboard.

I used to be able to dunk a basketball. But only off one foot. I couldn't get close off 2 feet.

Here's what springs looks like on a world class high jumper: Stefan Holm.

Well the Hammer is more just how far can I throw and object that has it's weight mostly on one end.

First a big ass wheel on the end of a stick, then actual Hammers (where the name comes from) and then modern day hammers.

Why do we measure the horizontal jumps from the takeoff board instead of where the jumper actually takes off? Why do we measure the vertical jumps from the bar instead of the actual height the jumper achieves? Why are the high hurdles 42 inches instead of 40?

It's just the rules of the event.

Because then it would be gymnastics event, not jumping.

The object isn't to clear the bar per se. The object is to clear the bar using the approved technique/implement/footwear, etc.

Every sport has rules. In baseball, a pitcher can't take a running start -- that's illegal.

Gymnasts would push the WR to ten feet immediately if there were not guidelines for the high jump.

You should also be allowed to flip when throwing the javelin, but that wasn't the question.

The mat is a few inches thick and it's not clear how springy it is, so I'd be careful about making comparisons.

The underwater rule (technically 15m rule) is a little different. Essentially, it erases the differences between the strokes and since that's the whole point of having butterfly and freestyle and breaststroke and backstroke, that's a really big deal. Why you can't do it in freestyle probably comes down to consistency (and having the swimmers underwater the whole time is kind of boring).

Wow, thank you so much for telling me that the reason you aren't allowed to is because it's against the rules.

Now can someone answer the question? I want to know why the rule was added.

Why can't a pitcher take a running start? "Because that's the rule" tells me nothing. "Because if he tried he wouldn't be able to throw strikes" or "Because if he did no one could ever get a hit" or "Because it would lead to increased injury risk" would be real answers. Even "Because it would look stupid" would be a better answer than "You can't do it because it's against the rules."

So: Why aren't you allowed to jump off two feet in the high jump?

Is it because it could cause injury? Is it because someone in 1882 thought it looked less elegant? Is it because it would lead to more parity, or less parity? Maybe it's easier to jump ~6' off two feet, but easier to jump ~7' off one foot, and they don't want to limit people by pushing them down the wrong road at the start of their jumping careers?

And unfair to one-legged athletes.

In gymnastics and ballet, the definition of a jump is that it takes off two feet. A leap takes off one foot. So technically, it’s the high leap not the high jump.