Insane Hurdles

I'm not fooled at all by what is going on here. Remember those David Blaine nba commercials? The one about Lebron's dunks, and how another teammate is just stepping on the floor in the right place which springs Lebron into the air. Well I'm not an idiot. That is all that is happening here. Someone off camera is just stomping on a trick piece of the track which launches this dude clean over my head. That is the only explanation. Also, is it just unfair for him to run a real hurdles race? I know he is a high jumper but it seems to me that running regular hurdles for him would just be like regular running. He might not even know there were there unless you told him. He does he not win that race every time?