1968: Dick Fosbury introduces the flop technique of the high jump. 1978: The last world record with the Western Roll is set in 1978. Previously the dominant style, most everyone uses the flop now.

Osborn was a keep student of form who modified the western roll technique by developing an efficient side-to-the-bar clearance, which paid off in height and consistency. Osborn's career spanned 16 ...

and when his high-school coach encouraged him to try the more traditional ‘Western roll’, results got worse. He decided to try one more track meet, with an adaptation of the scissor jump he ...

And he taught me to high jump using the Western roll where the jumper ran at the bar with a straight approach and aimed their arm and leg at the bar to go over belly first and land in the pit ...

The 25 year old Harry Porter (USA) won the 1908 high jump title with a new Olympic ... the original scissors in the 1890s, and the 'Western Roll' which was invented in 1910. When America’s ...

And he taught me to high jump using the Western roll where the jumper ran at the bar with a straight approach and aimed their arm and leg at the bar to go over belly first and land in the pit ...