Talk:Jumping

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[edit] Pole vaulting

Hello,

In your article about jumping you say 'pole vaulting for distance' is no longer practised However, in the Netherlands this is a very popular sport practised by a fair amount of people. We call this fierljeppen.

Is you want to know more, look at the website http://www.pbholland.com

Greetings,

Pieter

[edit] Are Elephants the only animal that cannont jump?

  If the criteria for jumping is lifting one's body under one's power, then it seems walruses would not be classified as jumpers.
  There might also be some other water animals that would not classify as jumpers, e.g. jellyfish.  The list could be quite long.

Jonathan

Sponge, sea urchin, coral... I can think of plenty of animals that can't. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 18:07, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

How about other land mammals that can't jump? Can giraffes jump? Sloths? --Allen 06:21, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm just going to delete it. There are lots of animals that cannot jump. I'm willing to guess that many land mammals are incapable too. --Burbster 00:31, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Muscles Involved

Shouldn't there be a section in this article describing the muscles involved in jumping? David3001 15:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

d —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.226.191.19 (talk) 01:15, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

The German dance band Scooter (band) used the definition of Jumping on this Wikipedia page (first alinea) as lyric for their song "The Definition", which is the first song of their latest album Jumping All Over the World. In this song a computer generated female voice reads the definition on this Wikipedia page, supported by a well known piece of classical music.