Changes in our external environment can often open up new opportunities for innovation, if only we have eyes to see them. A case in point is the sport of high jumping.

1. JUMP!
David Bavon

2. AGENDA
3 minutes about a life long achievement
OBSTACLE SOLUTIONTHINK

3. Did you like High Jump @
School?
Me, personally – no

4. And, at the time, this man didn’t
like it…
That was the way to do it at the
time…..
High School & High Jump Problematic
KUNG FU STYLE
HE COULDN’T COMPETE!

5. GOOD THINKING
Outside the box!

6. This man had invented his Flop in high school, when he
discovered that, though he was terrible at the scissors-
kick, the straddle and the belly-roll, if he stretched out
on his back and landed headfirst, he could jump higher
than anyone on his high-school track team
THAT IS GOOD THINKING

7. OLD SCHOOL
FOSBURY FLOP !!!!!
Going backwards? Really?

8. SOLUTION
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.
It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

9. FOSBURY FLOP in action!
At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Fosbury took the gold medal
and set a new Olympic record at 2.24 meters (7 ft
4¼ in),[7] displaying the potential of the new technique.

10. Fosbury Hill

12. THANK YOU !