“What’s that?” wondered the Granada man Francisco Martin MorillasHe stood in front of the television, fascinated by what he had just seen. “I’ve loved sports since I was little, I loved all sports, not just football, and I wouldn’t miss a single broadcast, so when I was 13 years old watching the Olympics in Mexico, I was stunned to see that leap that I recorded in my memory.” The 68-year-old Andalusian athlete now admits: remembering the ‘flop’ Dick Fosbury In 68 Gameswhen the devastating American athlete who died this week, a year before man set foot on the Moon, changed the history of the high jump forever.
It is true that without foam mats there would be no bounce back, but it is equally true that the Fosbury technique would not have become spherical so quickly if it were not for the charisma of an athlete determined to stick with the “straddle” technique. take off is done with the inside footFrom the age of 16 it has become the great historical reference of this specialty.
“I remember this very visually, an athlete drawing a parabola in the air, looking up at the sky and looking up to get to the other side of the bar in one breath,” the Granada-born jumper recalls, detailing the technical aspects that are still surprising to him. He states that the naturalness that conveys the transition between race and take-off without fear is “much more complicated to do without the tummy tuck technique.” First Spanish record holder to use the ‘Fosbury flop’ Seizing a national record in the 2.22m high jump in 1979, fulfilling a vision or a dream, emulated the 1968 Olympic champion, adolescent idol, to his own measure.
Martín Morillas entered athletics out of necessity. Like many of his classmates in the town of Benalúa in Granada and La Hoya de Guadix, he loved to play football. She says her PE teacher forced her to drop her PE grade if she didn’t sign up for the tetrathlon, a combination for child athletes that consists of four tests, including vertical jump. “I jumped very little, my worst test with shot put was height. Left foot kick and ventral roll passed me. One fine day I lay on my side and hit with my right foot and saw myself flying. sitting at the bar. The teacher came to correct me but wait, wait, ‘fóhgury ‘ I’m going to jump, like that, said with ge and an aspirated h. It seems like he’s accepted my little revolution technique as his past-height replacement. I think I turned necessity into pleasure there..
national champion
At the age of 15, he managed to hit the national record 1.70 for children, and With 20, Martín Morillas is the new national champion using the ‘Fosbury flop’.. The absolute Spanish record surpassed the previous record by six centimeters, achieved by Gustavo Marqueta of Aragon, a player with 2.16 knees, three years later, between 1976 and 1979, after he became an Olympian in Montreal 76. Together with Catalan Martí Perarnau and Barcelona resident Roberto Cabrejas of Basque, he rode astride in Spain, the last two becoming ‘fosburistas’ after years of practicing the abdominal roll.
The impact of the ‘Fosbury flop’ was already noticed at the 1972 Munich Games., four years after the Games in Mexico, with three jumpers climbing the podium, mimicking the technique that made the Portland powerhouse immortal. All subsequent world records are marked by the American except for Russian kneeling actor Vladimir Yáshchenko and his 1978 2.34 in a surprising old revision of this ultimately discontinuous style.
Bulgaria’s Stefka Kostadinova’s 2.09 in 1987 and Javier Sotomayor’s 2.45 in 1993 in Salamanca continue to top the list as current world records in the men’s and women’s categories, respectively, and both contain Fosbury’s DNA. . Also, the Spanish records of Arturo Ortiz (2.34) and Rio 2016 Olympic champion Ruth Beitia (2.02) share technique and style by perhaps 50% in the case of an entire generation hitter and the Cantabrian athlete. And to the following. “Fosbury made us dream and taught us to be brave and believe in ourselves, no matter how we jump or how we live,” concludes the Granada Olympian, still impressed by the jumping that changed her athletic career forever.
“What’s that?” wondered the Granada man Francisco Martin MorillasHe stood in front of the television, fascinated by what he had just seen. “I’ve loved sports since I was little, I loved all sports, not just football, and I wouldn’t miss a single broadcast, so when I was 13 years old watching the Olympics in Mexico, I was stunned to see that leap that I recorded in my memory.” The 68-year-old Andalusian athlete now admits: remembering the ‘flop’ Dick Fosbury In 68 Gameswhen the devastating American athlete who died this week, a year before man set foot on the Moon, changed the history of the high jump forever.
It is true that without foam mats there would be no bounce back, but it is equally true that the Fosbury technique would not have become spherical so quickly if it were not for the charisma of an athlete determined to stick with the “straddle” technique. take off is done with the inside footFrom the age of 16 it has become the great historical reference of this specialty.
“I remember this very visually, an athlete drawing a parabola in the air, looking up at the sky and looking up to get to the other side of the bar in one breath,” the Granada-born jumper recalls, detailing the technical aspects that are still surprising to him. He states that the naturalness that conveys the transition between race and take-off without fear is “much more complicated to do without the tummy tuck technique.” First Spanish record holder to use the ‘Fosbury flop’ Seizing a national record in the 2.22m high jump in 1979, fulfilling a vision or a dream, emulated the 1968 Olympic champion, adolescent idol, to his own measure.
Martín Morillas entered athletics out of necessity. Like many of his classmates in the town of Benalúa in Granada and La Hoya de Guadix, he loved to play football. She says her PE teacher forced her to drop her PE grade if she didn’t sign up for the tetrathlon, a combination for child athletes that consists of four tests, including vertical jump. “I jumped very little, my worst test with shot put was height. Left foot kick and ventral roll passed me. One fine day I lay on my side and hit with my right foot and saw myself flying. sitting at the bar. The teacher came to correct me but wait, wait, ‘fóhgury ‘ I’m going to jump, like that, said with ge and an aspirated h. It seems like he’s accepted my little revolution technique as his past-height replacement. I think I turned necessity into pleasure there..
national champion
At the age of 15, he managed to hit the national record 1.70 for children, and With 20, Martín Morillas is the new national champion using the ‘Fosbury flop’.. The absolute Spanish record surpassed the previous record by six centimeters, achieved by Gustavo Marqueta of Aragon, a player with 2.16 knees, three years later, between 1976 and 1979, after he became an Olympian in Montreal 76. Together with Catalan Martí Perarnau and Barcelona resident Roberto Cabrejas of Basque, he rode astride in Spain, the last two becoming ‘fosburistas’ after years of practicing the abdominal roll.
The impact of the ‘Fosbury flop’ was already noticed at the 1972 Munich Games., four years after the Games in Mexico, with three jumpers climbing the podium, mimicking the technique that made the Portland powerhouse immortal. All subsequent world records are marked by the American except for Russian kneeling actor Vladimir Yáshchenko and his 1978 2.34 in a surprising old revision of this ultimately discontinuous style.
Bulgaria’s Stefka Kostadinova’s 2.09 in 1987 and Javier Sotomayor’s 2.45 in 1993 in Salamanca continue to top the list as current world records in the men’s and women’s categories, respectively, and both contain Fosbury’s DNA. . Also, the Spanish records of Arturo Ortiz (2.34) and Rio 2016 Olympic champion Ruth Beitia (2.02) share technique and style by perhaps 50% in the case of an entire generation hitter and the Cantabrian athlete. And to the following. “Fosbury made us dream and taught us to be brave and believe in ourselves, no matter how we jump or how we live,” concludes the Granada Olympian, still fascinated by the jump that changed his athletic career forever.
Source: Informacion
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