Showing posts with label Athletics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Athletics. Show all posts

Friday, 23 September 2022

21. Why Black People run faster, White People Swim faster?

Back in my school days, one of my coach told me that Black People have a denser bone, so physically they are born with a strong skeleton system which can hold together their muscle and body mass stronger than the rest of the people. So, whenever they run they can run faster than the rest. However, since their bone is denser, whenever they swim their body will sink and create a big drag. That why U C in Olympic 100m run most/all are black in color and in swimming event all is white/yellow color.

Once can always count argue that black are generally poor and there is no access to swimming pool other than river, pond and seas. Swimming may cost $$ in certain country, googles, fin, etc. Then it is a technical sport because water is 780x denser than air. Good coaching for improved swimming skill is required so that one can swim with less drag. Well, the argument goes on.  Running is free and running skill is pretty much established in africa. For more than 30 years, I did not progress with this theory, a theory without any verification. Then one fine day, I came across an article in a medical journal. That somewhat confirm my coach statement. 30 years confirmation. In summary,

“The prevalence of osteoporosis is influenced by ethnicity and race. African Americans have both lower rates of osteoporosis and higher bone mass. However, the consequences of fracture are not lower in this ethnic group. Mortality after hip fracture is higher among African American women than among white women [22].Mar 23, 2011”

The full article can be found below.

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111798/

that what I want in life, not just theory2 only. Confirmation!==> then in become a FACT.

Sunday, 17 June 2018

6. Athletics. Malaysia High Jumper. 17th June 2018


In this article, I am going to talk about athletics.

According to Internet search data, I obtained the data for Malaysian High Jumper, the main information is their height and their personal best,
I then draw a table below, jump above jumper height

Personal Best – Jumper height
Loo Kum Zee 1.76m
2.24 - 1.76 = .48
Lee Hup Wei 1.80m
2.28 - 1.80 = .48
Nauraj Singh Randhawa 1.93m

2.30 - 1.93 = .37

According to http://www.scholm.com/eng50.asp list updated in 2014, there are 50 jumpers world wide since 1968 (beginning of Fosbury Flop style) who jumped 50 cm above their height. Let assume by 2018, there are 55 jumpers. Let assume jumper need some years to optimize/perfecting their style, let assume the style is already optimized since 1978, so now it is 2018 about 40 years, with 55 jumper jumped above 50 cm. I think Loo Kum Zee and Lee Hup Wei, had already approaching their personal best limit. There are among the top 100-200 high jumper in the world since 1978, if you consider height difference. As far as their skill (Loo Kum Zee and Lee Hup Wei) are concerned they are world class, why they did not get a medal in Olympic or Commonwealth, it’s because their height is not tall enough.

If you do an analysis of jumper height and their personal best, most Olympic medallist jumper high is at least 1.90 meter and the average jump above jumper height is around 0.40meter.

If you consider current time, they are considered world class if you consider height difference.
If Nauraj Singh (need to improve his skill) can improve his technique to be around 0.42 meter above his height, then he can do 2.35 ( a medallist in Olympic). In high jump, jumper height does matter. In many sports, size does matter, a simple calculation will show everything. TQ for reading, spread this info around.


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