Where you look while high jumping

Your head and your eyes will dictate what your hips do. If you are looking down at your feet or your steps, you certainly won't jump up in the air. If you are looking at the bar when you jump, you will run right into it. Where you look should shift over the course of the approach and then the jump. It should start at the near standard.

When you begin the curve of the J-run, your sight line should move with your shoulders and hips toward the middle of the bar, and as you get closer to the bar, you should be seeing the far standard. Remember, you look there, but you keep your plant angle to the back corner -- don't flatten out the end of the run.

At the point of takeoff, you look parallel to the bar, at something that could be along the line of the bar about 20 feet away. After take off you lean your head back and try to look to the back or side of the pit.