The Fosbury Flop is effective because it allows the athlete to maintain their center of mass below the bar while clearing it, requiring less vertical power.

“what you're telling me all of us is that he took his center of mass outside of his body basically right think of a u-shape right if you have a if you have a bar and it's straight the center of mass is in the middle but if you make a u-shape the center of mass is kind of down in the middle of the u”