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2. cameramaster commented 10 years ago
I can actually remember watching this, I was 16, ( I'm getting old !) And my fathers comment "DAMN...that can't be legal!" he was totally dumbfounded.


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4. TaxCollector commented 10 years ago
everyone laughed at the beginning... It just shows you that if everyone is doing? something one way, it doesn't mean it's the best way!!


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5. MindTrick commented 10 years ago
everyone laughed at the beginning... It just shows you that if everyone is doing? something one way, it doesn't mean it's the best way!!


7. zurathan commented 10 years ago
it makes me remember something entirely different.
if you dont mind me sharing, continue reading.
i m sure you all know chess and some special moves like castle or empasant.
in 1978 Tim Krabbé published a chess puzzles book. and as a joke he invented the vertical castle.
if you didnt move your king and manged to under-improve your "e pawn" to a rook and finally if there were no other peace occupying or threatening e line, then theoretically (at those times rules) you may castle vertically (king moves 2 square up and rook moves 7 square down). he also notated that move as 0-0-0-0.
that idea made chess people change the castling rule. and now that is just a litle known chess history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Krabb%C3%A9
if you dont mind me sharing, continue reading.
i m sure you all know chess and some special moves like castle or empasant.
in 1978 Tim Krabbé published a chess puzzles book. and as a joke he invented the vertical castle.
if you didnt move your king and manged to under-improve your "e pawn" to a rook and finally if there were no other peace occupying or threatening e line, then theoretically (at those times rules) you may castle vertically (king moves 2 square up and rook moves 7 square down). he also notated that move as 0-0-0-0.
that idea made chess people change the castling rule. and now that is just a litle known chess history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Krabb%C3%A9


9. nomoredavid commented 10 years ago
Think different.




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10. Judge-Jake commented 10 years ago
He went on to invent the quick release trainer 'The Fosbury Flip Flop' It wasn't a great success in fact it was known as the 'Fosbury Flip Flop Flop' 



11. RetroGrade77 commented 10 years ago
The Wikipedia entry on Dick Fosbury is very interesting. He was actually doing a scissor kick that gradually morphed into a backwards flight once his high school switched to a foam mat before his junior season. He wasn't the only one in the US that tried it but he gained the most media attention. He researched the rules and the rules only say that you have to take off of one foot, they don't specify how you go over the bar.
+16 1. nearen commented 10 years ago