Great post! This is why I love this site.

Very intriguing "never heard it before" history.

Wow! *vintage maybe? At least for my age group...

Gold Star invocations (vintage) cannot be executed by maatc because maatc is not a Gold Star member - sorry.

I remember learning this exact story back in middle school track & field - pretty cool technique (and hard to get right).

really nice clip. good that it happened on film, not video

Yes, for me 1968 is, in fact, vintage.

Oops, I meant to say *vintage.

Video added to vintage channel (vintage called by gold star member wingnut)

Very cool. I had no idea.

"Reinventing the Wheel" means redundantly developing a widely used device or method that already exists and requires no improvement. It is usually used in a derogatory way, and specifically implies lack of innovation, so it doesn't apply here.

It's like somebody here saying, "Hey, someone should create a website where people can post YouTube videos and others can vote on them. The bad ones won't make it, and then we'll have a solid collection of actually interesting vidz instead of the swill you have to wade through on YouTube. We could build traffic and eventually incorporate Google ads."

Or like Bill Gates when he made Windows. Oh no, wait. He just stole that. Bad example.

White men CAN jump. Backwards!

Yes, messenger is right, I thought the title was a bit strange as Fosbury was a true innovator.

Perhaps a better title along the same lines would be - "Building a Better Mouse Trap"

Awesome outside-of-the-box pioneer.