In high jump an athlete has to jump unaided and take off from one foot over a four-meter-long horizontal bar. High jumper seek to clear the greatest height without knocking the bar to the ground. An athlete has three attempts per height, although athlete can elect to ‘pass’, i.e., advance to a greater height despite not having cleared the current one. Three consecutive failures at the same height, or combination of heights, cause an athlete’s elimination.

High jump technique can be mainly divided into three Approach (Running towards the high jump bar) Take-off (Movement of lifting the body up in air and flight (what is done in air to landing on mat). 

Major high jump techniques are: 

• Scissor Jump : Legs are lifted over the bar in alteration one after the other. 

• Eastern Cut-off : Athlete rotates the trunk into a horizontal position at the peak of the jump. 

• Western Roll : In the athlete clears the bar on his/her side, with the take-off leg tucked under the rest of the body. 

• Straddle Jump: The athlete cleared the bar face-down, with the body stretched along the bar. 

Fosbury-flop: The athlete runs up in a curve, jumps by taking off from his outer foot and twists his body to clear the bar with his back. He finishes the movement by lifting his legs over the bar and landing on a mattress.