THE IMPOSSIBLE JUMP! || 9.00 METERS! *(29 FEET, 6 INCHES)*

9 meters. 29 Feet, 6 inches. Throughout the past century, many athletes have gotten close, but nobody has managed to achieve this mark.
Will it ever happen?
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[charlesthorndike]

I remember my track and field coach said that when Bob Beamon jumped his 8.90m, his lowest body part (at the highest phase of the jump) was 1.87m above the ground. So yeah, he could've cleared a 1.87m high jump with LONG JUMP TECHNIQUE (with the timing being perfect of course). I also remember my physical education textbook from high school said that Beamon's center of mass was 2.06m above ground at its highest point. HOLY. HOT. DAMN.

[gugus]

That 9-meter limit on long jump, 2 hours for a marathon, and 100 meters in javelin are three barriers I wanna see broken before I die.

[alejandrotorres]

3:10 I think “a few millimeters away” is very misleading. If you discount Powell’s all conditions 8.99 jump, his world record is 5cm away. That’s WAY bigger than “just a few millimeters.” However, I understand and agree with your point that for a long time, we’ve been very close to the 9m mark

[DuckHunterGaming]

longest under any conditions? i jumped out of an airplane and went like 2 miles.

[jlaux]

Powell's foot on the board, although near perfect, still had a few centimeters to spare. If you factor that in, I think the '91 jump was right around 9.00m.

[ragnari]

Bob Beamon's Mexico City jump is probably the greatest single performance in the history of sport. He not only was the first man to jump over 29 feet, he was first past 28. He surpassed the existing World record by a astounding 22 inches.

[theleftuprightatsoldierfield]

I’m a shot putter. At my first high school meet, my best throw was 8.95 m. I still find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that a human can jump that far

[mtk-mtukalor]

Excellent video. I find relevant to talk about *Ivan Pedroso* on that question. He jumped 8.96m in Sestriere (a person stood in front of the anemometer, probably intercepting the correct wind measurement which was initially 1.2m/s . There are some crazy foul jumps from Pedroso. One looks like 9.15m - 9.20m Check "Ivan Pedroso 9m Foul". His PB is "only" 8.71, but he is part of the GOATs

[bradtdarius]

Having never done so in high school, I ran Track for 3 years ('76-'79) in college, for an after-class activity. Edwin Moses and Carl Lewis were my GOATS. Just on pure athletic ability, I had personal best of 48.0 in the 400 meters, and 24'8" in the long jump. What Lewis did as both a sprinter and long jumper makes me consider him the greatest Track and Field athlete I ever saw. Moses' consistency in the 400 meters make him my #2. What Usain Bolt did as a sprinter makes him an all-time great as well, without question, but Lewis, at his peak, was the world's best sprinter and long jumper simultaneously;a 10-year winning streak...65 victories... in the long jump, including jumping 28 feet or better over 70 times; from 1981 to the early '90s, was a top-5 world class sprinter.That's G.O.A.T. shit.

[OfentseMwaseFilms]

We live amongst Super humans. I prolly jumped 2 meters in the pit!

[RunningOtaku]

I watched the Powell/Lewis battle live when I was living in Japan. Still gives me goosebumps how exciting it was!

[aroundandround]

3:20 The comparison to a 5mm eraser head is incorrect. 8.95m is 50mm or 5cm short and even 8.99m is 10mm short, not 5mm short.

[anilpandey]

Mike Powell 8.95 m jump was achieved with a tail wind of 0.3 m/s. If the tail wind would have been 1.5 m/s, no doubt Powell would have broken the 9 metre mark.

[aleksazecevic]

Next year be like: Joshua Cheptegui is gonna be attempting to jump 9 meters

Thanks guys, i have never got this many likes. Thanks :)

[lexblau]

As person being coached by cubans during the las 8 years, the legend of a Ivan Pedroso's jump over 9 mts persist. The cubans said that during a PanAmerican games in Cuba, Pedroso jumped an over 9m foul. He kindly asked the judges to measure it from the foul and the result was a 9.03m jump.

[tradewins]

I remember watching that competition live and along with the announcers was in a state of amazement. It's a measure of Carl Lewis's greatness in this event that Mike Powell, who had lost to Lewis many times in various competitions, later said about this record that "Carl is so good that I had to break the world record just to beat him."

[wakimura]

Flight jumped 15 meters but didn’t have the cameras on

[Eli-mnvn]

Been a life-long track n' field fan. I'm grateful I found your channel.

[dfvallejosc]

Without watching the video I guess that he says "this is the most amazing performances that I have ever seen"

[nick]

I jumped 10 meters when I saw you uploaded, beat that