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Does anyone have the highest bars ever cleared on video? Highest vid I've seen is 6.11 (http://www.stabhochsprung.com). If you dont have a way to post it online, let me know - I can host it on the webservers I run.

I think it was posted in another forum - but the DVD 'Vault 2000' by Spencer Chang has atleast one of the jumps - and atleast 2 of Bubkas clearances over 20 feet. I loaned the DVD to my brother and havent seen it in a little while so my exact memory of which vaults it has is a bit shaky.

The world record jump in Sestriere -1994 - is shown on the tail end of Petrov's Italian Instructional video. I have it somewhere but terrible quality film -try dave Butler at Rice. However probable highest jump with or without a bar is his winning jump of 6.01 in Athens. Estimated by sports scientists at 6.40m.



"What is technically desirable must be physically possible"

altius wrote:The world record jump in Sestriere -1994 - is shown on the tail end of Petrov's Italian Instructional video. I have it somewhere but terrible quality film -try dave Butler at Rice. However probable highest jump with or without a bar is his winning jump of 6.01 in Athens. Estimated by sports scientists at 6.40m.

Got a link to that?

dafox wrote:

altius wrote:The world record jump in Sestriere -1994 - is shown on the tail end of Petrov's Italian Instructional video. I have it somewhere but terrible quality film -try dave Butler at Rice. However probable highest jump with or without a bar is his winning jump of 6.01 in Athens. Estimated by sports scientists at 6.40m.

Got a link to that?

http://www.stabhoch.com/movies/19970801_Bubka_601.mov

Its that one isnt it?

altius wrote:The world record jump in Sestriere -1994 - is shown on the tail end of Petrov's Italian Instructional video. I have it somewhere but terrible quality film -try dave Butler at Rice. However probable highest jump with or without a bar is his winning jump of 6.01 in Athens. Estimated by sports scientists at 6.40m.



"What is technically desirable must be physically possible"

That is a very good video, but I am going to have to disagree with the 6.40 estimation. Even if you allow for the elbows, which he probably would have pulled out of the way had the bar been higer, he still would not have cleared anywhere close to 640. After a lengthy analysis of the jump in slow motion from three different angles, including the bar cam, using fixed points as references, I'd have to say that he had 6.20.

6.25 tops.

That is, once again, if you allow for the elbows.

His hips may have been at around a little over 6.30, though, at their highest point.

But hey, it's a 6.25 jump. Very excellent technique to watch, although through that whole competition, he was drifting to the right side. He got better with every clearance, though.

can't argue with japanese scientists