Rulebook

Proposal 24: [Plaform High Jump] Adjusting landing surface area [ Revision 4 ]

Committee: Trials and Jumps
Submitted on 2016-12-14
Status: Passed on January 22, 2017

Background

Everybody uses pallet for high jump, but the minimal size of landing area of platform high jump is just a tad bigger, making organizer platform high a pain in the ass.

Proposal

OLD:

"The structure consists of two parts: a platform and a landing surface. The top surface of the platform must be at least 120 x 120 cm in size, the maximum and recommended size is 120 cm wide by 160 cm long. The sides of the platform must be nearly perpendicular with the ground to ensure its presence does not hamper riders. The landing surface consists of a flat piece of wood of the same dimensions as the platform (120 x 120 cm to 120 x 160 cm) that is firmly affixed to the top of the platform."

NEW:

"The structure consists of two parts: a platform and a landing surface. The top surface of the platform must be at least 120 x 80 cm in size. The sides of the platform must be nearly perpendicular with the ground to ensure its presence does not hamper riders. The landing surface consists of a flat piece of wood firmly affixed to the top of the platform that is 120 x 80 cm in size. If the top surface of the platform is larger than 120 x 80 cm, the landing surface must be attached to the platform such that one of the 120 cm sides is aligned with the edge of the platform."

Body

Hello,

The current rulebook states:

"The structure consists of two parts: a platform and a landing surface. The top surface of the platform must be at least 120 x 120 cm in size, the maximum and recommended size is 120 cm wide by 160 cm long. The sides of the platform must be nearly perpendicular with the ground to ensure its presence does not hamper riders. The landing surface consists of a flat piece of wood of the same dimensions as the platform (120 x 120 cm to 120 x 160 cm) that is firmly affixed to the top of the platform."

I firmly believe we should change the current measurements for platform high jump landing surface as most rider trains, and all competitions use pallets. Most of the times these pallets will be the "EUR" or "EURO" standard pallet which have a size of 80 x 120cm. Using a pallet and a half makes the competition much slower and very complicated to add or remove cm to the current height of the platform.

So I believe we should just change the 120 x 120cm minium to 120 x 80 cm, which is the size of a pallet.

Even at Unicon the platform high jump were not according to rules as only pallets we used for it, nobody said anything because everybody knows that using pallets is totally fine and was most riders use anyway.

To make it fair across competitions, and since the rider has to stay on top of the pallet for 3 seconds for the jump to be validated, I think the difference in landing area shouldn't be so big. Thus reducing the maximal landing area would make it more fair.

References

EUR-Pallet standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUR-pallet

Discussion

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Change Log:

Revision 4 changed by Scott Wilton (15 Jan 12:20): Updated proposal such that the platform must be at least as big as a EUR pallet but that the landing surface is the size of a EUR pallet for consistency across competitions.
Revision 3 changed by Emile Mathieu (15 Jan 10:22): updated proposal.
Revision 2 changed by Emile Mathieu (14 Dec 12:21): Duplicated text
Revision 1 changed by Emile Mathieu (14 Dec 12:19)

Votes on this proposal:

8 out of 14 voting members have voted.

Agree: 8, Disagree: 0, Abstain: 0.