Valentin
Coach
I think Blair touched on the more important part of the hurdle, as in that the leaning hurdle helps conserve horizontal momentum going into the RO. You will never see anyone do a massive run up followed by a really high hurdle going into a corner to corner pass.. but you will see a high hurdle for side passes, and long tumbles why?
Well the reality is that with a side pass you don't have room to run, and thus you are limited with the amount of kinetic energy you can generate...so what you do is you jump up and forward..(more up less forward)..the benefit of this is that instead of building up kinetic energy you generate potential energy which gets converted to kinetic on the down phase.
If you are limited with space use the high hurdle, if you have room to run use the long and leaning.
Of course whatever hurdle you use you must make sure that do it in a way that allows maximal transfer of kinetic energy from one more to the other. Thus for long hurdle you want to reach long not short, and for a high hurdle you want to reach down and a little shorter (like Blaitonnick described).
Well the reality is that with a side pass you don't have room to run, and thus you are limited with the amount of kinetic energy you can generate...so what you do is you jump up and forward..(more up less forward)..the benefit of this is that instead of building up kinetic energy you generate potential energy which gets converted to kinetic on the down phase.
If you are limited with space use the high hurdle, if you have room to run use the long and leaning.
Of course whatever hurdle you use you must make sure that do it in a way that allows maximal transfer of kinetic energy from one more to the other. Thus for long hurdle you want to reach long not short, and for a high hurdle you want to reach down and a little shorter (like Blaitonnick described).