Triple jump world-record holder Jonathan Edwards is hugely excited about the talent pool in high jumping, with three Brits making the last Olympic final and the man missing from that showpiece looks fired up.
It was only by perfecting his odd technique on his own that Fosbury won the gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, setting a new record on worldwide television, and reinventing high-jumping overnight.
Paragliding is another popular way to enjoy the mountains, as the glacial peaks offer high altitude jumping off points with strong winds, giving pilots plenty of air time to enjoy the view of patchwork valleys below.
What emotions go with jumping high enough onto the flagpole that you get a free life?
The digital athletes in NBA Jam performed such hoops-time high jinx as jumping from the half-court line, doing flips in the air and lighting the basket on fire as they dunked the ball.
In one recent study researchers in Germany tested the effects of three hours a week of strength training, jumping and high-impact aerobics on 50 postmenopausal women at risk for osteoporosis.
By contrast, Goldman's value-at-risk the amount it could lose on a bad day and thus a widely used (if imperfect) measure of risk appetite hit a new high last quarter, jumping most in equities, even as stockmarket volatility fell.
If you have jumping enemies, high shield block, slithering enemies, low shield block, etc.
Soon high-class restaurants were jumping on the bandwagon, adding sushi to their fusion menus.
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The 24-year-old fell awkwardly jumping for a high ball near the end of the game and had to be stretchered off.
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Crispin Aylett QC, prosecuting, said the friend "managed to get away by jumping over a high wall, but Kwame got caught".
Big yields sometimes hide excessive risk, as evidenced by these two recent examples, which show the importance of watching for certain warning signals on the charts before jumping into select high-yield instruments.
The friend managed to get away by jumping over a 6ft high wall, but Kwame "got caught", Mr Aylett said.
This market has shown impressive resilience, but with skeptics now jumping in, this is a high-risk time for new buying.
Mr. MYERS: The jumping boogie sound even made it into high society when those three, calling themselves the Boogie-Woogie Trio, performed at Carnegie Hall for the now famous Spiritual Swing Concert in 1938.
Although the first XFL program broadcast on Feb. 3 achieved high ratings, those ratings soon plummeted like a wrestler jumping off a turnbuckle.
This was followed with clowns on swings or swiveling about in giant rings, acrobats suspended high above the stage, ballerinas, someone on stilts jumping rope and dancers dressed as Tarot cards.
University of Maryland biologist Daphne De Freitas Soares and biology lecturer Hilary S. Bierman discovered the guppies' ability while using high-speed videography and digital imaging to analyze the jumping behavior of nine guppies from a wild Trinidadian species, Poecilia reticulata, related to the familiar pet-shop fish.
U.S. investors are jumping back into Asian bonds, even buying debt from high-yield Chinese real-estate developers they shunned last year because of worries the companies could default.
Base jumping sees participants launch themselves from a surface and free fall from high altitudes before opening a parachute.
Large air shows like those feature pilots pulling seemingly death-defying maneuvers in all manner of aircraft from biplanes to jets, precision formation flying, skydivers jumping from planes and, of course, screeching military jets pulling high-G maneuvers.
When I was about 17, three years after I turned pro, my high school "careers" teacher scolded me in front of the entire class about jumping ahead in my workbook.
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