Western roll
The western roll , sometimes roll style called, is an outdated technology in the high jump .
technology
In the Western Roll, a right jumper runs from the right, a left jumper from the left, whereby both times the body is placed in a back position. Furthermore, the Western Roll consists of a single horizontal movement in which the ankle bone, which is brought parallel to the bar, is pulled under the swinging leg over the bar. If you run from the left, you turn to the left to the side and pull the talus under your body, when you have passed the bar you stretch it and land on it and on both hands. This landing is called a three-point landing. For many athletes, this technique was too complicated and therefore out of the question. In addition, the position of the body is almost parallel to the floor, the head is raised a little. The entire body rolls over the bar in the following order (for the right jumper): left arm, body with both legs, head, right arm. This technique has the advantage that the body's center of gravity is lower than with the shear jump used up until then.
history
George Horine (1890–1948, USA) is considered to be the inventor of this jumping technique, which replaced the shear jump invented by the American William Page in 1874 . The rolling style was practiced until the 1950s and is now considered obsolete. First you jumped the straddle from 1936 and nowadays only the Fosbury flop in competition . Other world record holders and world champions of this style were:
literature
- RL Templeton: The High Jump , Spalding's Athletic Library, 1930
- Das Visuelle Lexikon Sport , 2006, Gerstenberg Verlag, ISBN 3-8067-2566-7