1 year ago

Think about the high jump in track-and-field competitions. You run up, almost parallel to the bar, and jump toward the bar, pushing off your outside leg.

Jumpers get their head over the bar, and then arch their back as their head starts to fall, keeping their hips traveling upward.

Up until that point, high jumpers used jump techniques that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissors_jumpover the bar, or other methods of feet-first jumps.

In many ways, technologists have been jumping over ever-higher bars of performance and user experiences as we traverse technological breakthrough after breakthrough.