Video: Kenyan high school high-jump

Posted by Paul Maughan-Brown on 13 August 2013

Shoes? Padded mats? Side-on approach to backwards-arch to backwards roll technique perfected by Olympians? No thanks. This is how we jump in Africa (‘we’ being used in the most generous, optimistic and factually incorrect manner possible here – i’m not sure I could even reach that pole with my fingertips).