I don't understand the point of clearing sequentially higher bars. Just use the same format as the horizontal jumps: everyone gets three attempts to jump as high as they can, and the highest wins.
Get rid of the bar. Just have everyone jump as high as they can and measure it.
I don't understand the point of clearing sequentially higher bars. Just use the same format as the horizontal jumps: everyone gets three attempts to jump as high as they can, and the highest wins.
Get rid of the bar. Just have everyone jump as high as they can and measure it.
I assume you’d do the same for high jump. It just seems super boring. I like them trying to clear an actual barrier.
I don't understand the point of clearing sequentially higher bars. Just use the same format as the horizontal jumps: everyone gets three attempts to jump as high as they can, and the highest wins.
Get rid of the bar. Just have everyone jump as high as they can and measure it.
I think it would be more interesting for the sport to do the opposite... make the horizontal jumps and throws a contest of clearing further and further out barriers. It adds an element of strategy, endurance, and a whole lot more drama to the event.
I don't understand the point of clearing sequentially higher bars. Just use the same format as the horizontal jumps: everyone gets three attempts to jump as high as they can, and the highest wins.
Get rid of the bar. Just have everyone jump as high as they can and measure it.
What part of them would you measure?
You'd still measure clearance. It's just that you'd essentially be measuring the highest imaginary bar the athlete would have cleared instead of measuring the physical bar that they did clear.
Think of it like this: If the bar is at 19 feet, and the athlete clears the bar by 6 inches, under the current system, they get credit for jumping 19 feet. I'm saying just get rid of the bar and call it a 19'6" jump.
Because the that's what the events are - they're actually not competitions to see which athlete's body reaches the highest point; they're competitions to see which athlete can get their body over the highest fixed point. I actually like that difference from the horizontal jumps.
This sounds so exciting. We should also do the same with running, and have everyone on rows of treadmills instead of actually running a set distance.
We do already do the same thing in running. We record the actual time rather than setting a "bar to clear."
If running worked the way PV does, you'd have to run the 1500 over and over again. "Ok, now he's making an attempt at 3:55. He has three chances. If he gets under 3:55, then he'll have to run 3:52. Once he does that he'll attempt 3:49."
You'd still measure clearance. It's just that you'd essentially be measuring the highest imaginary bar the athlete would have cleared instead of measuring the physical bar that they did clear.
Think of it like this: If the bar is at 19 feet, and the athlete clears the bar by 6 inches, under the current system, they get credit for jumping 19 feet. I'm saying just get rid of the bar and call it a 19'6" jump.
How would you determine if all parts of the body cleared the max height?
At any given time in a successful jump part of the body is lower than the bar.
You'd still measure clearance. It's just that you'd essentially be measuring the highest imaginary bar the athlete would have cleared instead of measuring the physical bar that they did clear.
Think of it like this: If the bar is at 19 feet, and the athlete clears the bar by 6 inches, under the current system, they get credit for jumping 19 feet. I'm saying just get rid of the bar and call it a 19'6" jump.
How would you determine if all parts of the body cleared the max height?
At any given time in a successful jump part of the body is lower than the bar.
It doesn’t work without the bar.
You'd still have the standards in place. Highest uninterrupted signal transmitted between the sending and receiving standard is the measurement.
Sometimes jumps are missed due to hitting the bar on the way up, sometimes at the top and sometimes on the way down. A single laser at the top of jump totally changes the event. Might as well just measure vertical leap and that would be boring.
Sometimes jumps are missed due to hitting the bar on the way up, sometimes at the top and sometimes on the way down. A single laser at the top of jump totally changes the event. Might as well just measure vertical leap and that would be boring.
You'd still be measuring in the same plane, so that could still happen. Height would be measured where you cross the standards, just like in the current version of the event.
You'd still have the standards in place. Highest uninterrupted signal transmitted between the sending and receiving standard is the measurement.
A fixed laser is no different than a bar.
It is because you can measure the exact point at which the laser is interrupted.Say you have 10m standards. A continuous signal is transmitted along the entire height of the right standard and received by the left standard. When the athlete breaks the plane at 6.023 meters, that exact height is recorded instead of whatever height the bar was set at.
It is because you can measure the exact point at which the laser is interrupted.Say you have 10m standards. A continuous signal is transmitted along the entire height of the right standard and received by the left standard. When the athlete breaks the plane at 6.023 meters, that exact height is recorded instead of whatever height the bar was set at.
Then what? The new measurement system produces new records and all the youngsters explain how all the previous performances sucked.