{"id":4000,"date":"2025-08-14T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alicerombach.com\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:05:22","slug":"lernen-vom-froschspringer-und-von-der-graefin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alicerombach.com\/en\/lernen-vom-froschspringer-und-von-der-graefin\/","title":{"rendered":"Learnings from the frog jumper and the countess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Probably very few people know the name Jan B\u00f6klov. That doesn't matter, he probably wouldn't have cared that much himself, and that's not necessarily what this is about. It's about how B\u00f6klov first became a frog-jumper by mistake and then a rule-breaker by conviction. Just like the countess who flew through the air and many women after her. And what we can learn from that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[blockquote][blockquote]<strong>There was a time when people thought man would not survive a 100-metre jump. The same scepticism existed at the 200-metre mark a few years ago. Now we are approaching the 250-metre mark.<\/strong>[\/blockquote]<\/p>\n<p>Ski jumpers used to hold their skis parallel while jumping off the hill. On the one hand, it was thought to be safer for the flight, on the other hand, there were aesthetic reasons for it. If the skis did not lie accurately next to each other in the air, points were deducted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[blockquote] Im Sommertraining 1985 im schwedischen Falun, machte der Skispringer Jan B\u00f6klov einen folgenschweren Fehler. Der Wind blies ihm entgegen, deswegen schob B\u00f6klov seinen Oberk\u00f6rper weiter als \u00fcblich nach vorne.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">[\/blockquote] \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly his skis were ripped wide apart. He jumped 20 meters further than ever before.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Today we know that the lift in the air doubles in this so-called V-posture. However, in this posture - compared to the old technique - the jumpers had to virtually initiate a forward somersault and jump into nothingness, so to speak.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>B\u00f6klov, an already stubborn but also probably unimpressive young Swede, and a rather mediocre jumper, now dared to use his new jumping technique in competition. It was not forbidden, but the judges punished him with a severe deduction of points in the posture scores. In addition, he was showered with scorn. Even stadium announcers announced him as a frog jumper and many other athletes laughed at him. Apparently B\u00f6klov did not care.<\/p>\n<p>[blockquote]<strong>Moreover, he was showered with gloating. Even stadium announcers announced him as a frog jumper and many other athletes laughed at him. Apparently, B\u00f6klov did not care about this.<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> [\/blockquote] \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He continued to jump undeterred and others began to follow him in the new technique. He had his few years at the top and also his little revolution. He gave birth to a new technique. This eventually established itself within a few years, similar to the Fosbury flop in the high jump.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[blockquote][blockquote]<strong>At first, it was thought that humans couldn't fly that far. Then people tried to stop the V-style. Finally, it was even claimed that women's bodies could not withstand these jumps. But the V-style prevailed. So did the womens'  jumping.\u00a0<\/strong>[\/blockquote]<\/p>\n<p><b>When the countess flew through the air<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Countess Paula von Lamberg jumped 22 metres, one of the first known female ski jumpers. That was in 1911, and there were, and still are, a great many women who jumped from the ski jumps after her.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although they often trained with the men, they were not infrequently excluded from competitions, especially since women's own competitions were rarely organized.<\/p>\n<p>[blockquote] <strong>Even in the 1990s, the general secretary of the International Ski Federation, among others, continued to claim that the female spine and uterus would suffer great damage from jumping and landing.\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the female ski jumpers did not let themselves be stopped, even though there were few competitions and there were repeated quarrels about hill sizes, inrun lengths, and risks of injury. All in all, the usual struggles on the way to the professionalization of a sport - under the special sign of the \"other sex\".<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After all, there have been women's ski jumping World Championships and Olympic Games for some years now.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[blockquote] <strong>But women have only been officially jumping from the large hill since 2021!<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I say - girls, keep jumping, jump as far as you can and even further, and bring your little sisters and girlfriends with you and everyone else anyway! And rock a Four Hills Tournament in the future.  Because this one is still to come.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>-<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Learn from the rule breakers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And let's think about what we can learn from these ski jumpers and from a guy like B\u00f6klov. I think quite a lot.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Often it's worth taking a look at the past.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I took ski jumping as an example of something very important here, to show that something we see as a limit is not as fixed or as given as it seems. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[blockquote]<strong>What we sometimes see as insurmountable today is changeable and, like everything in the world, in flux and more mobile than we think. Let us never forget that we can move boundaries.<\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>[\/blockquote]<\/p>\n<p>Just like the frog-jumper and the countess who flew through the air.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Namen Jan B\u00f6klov kennen wahrscheinlich die wenigsten. Macht nichts, das w\u00e4re ihm selbst wahrscheinlich auch nicht so wichtig gewesen und darum geht es auch nicht unbedingt. Sondern darum, wie B\u00f6klov zuerst aus Versehen zum Froschspringer und dann aus \u00dcberzeugung zum Regelbrecher wurde. Genauso, wie die Gr\u00e4fin, die durch die Luft flog und nach ihr [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geschichte","tag-fiktion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lernen vom Froschspringer und von der Gr\u00e4fin - Alice Rombach Consulting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/alicerombach.com\/en\/lernen-vom-froschspringer-und-von-der-graefin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lernen vom Froschspringer und von der Gr\u00e4fin - Alice Rombach Consulting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Den Namen Jan B\u00f6klov kennen wahrscheinlich die wenigsten. 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