Gymnasts doing tumbling runs store a lot of energy to enable them to then perform double somersaults etc. Could this energy allow them to get enough height to do a roll over a high jump bar and break the world high jump record which is not much higher than the athletes who set it?|||Not unless they participate in an official track meet and jump over the bar. Also, the official rules of track and field say you must jump off ONE foot to be a legal jump. Besides that rule, it doesn't matter if you do flips, rolls, whatever, as long as you go over the bar off ONE foot. Perhaps you should realize that people have been high jumping for a long time now and they probably have the best way to do it down pat. They used to do the western roll until Dick Fosbery developerd the Fosbery Flop in which you jump over the bar facing the sky, unlike the western roll where you would be face toward the ground. They used the roll prior to good landing padding because it allowed you to land easier on the ground (they used to use sawdust to land on!). Once the landing padding (called "the pit") improved, they could land on their back without killing themselves.
The world record is just a bit over EIGHT FEET. I doubt a gymnast gets their entire body that high off ONE foot..|||They aren't mineral springs, they're HOT springs!
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|||No way.
High jumpers perform on a track.
Gymnasts perform on a mat with springs underneath.
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