In the early 1930s, prior to the construction of "Bloudkova velikanka", the FIS had deemed ski jumping hills with a K-point (German: "Konstruktionspunkt") of to be the absolute largest permissible. Athletes who chose to compete on hills with a K-point of more than were outright denied a licence to jump, and events allowing for distances beyond were strongly discouraged – even denounced – on the grounds that they were unnecessarily dangerous and brought the sport into disrepute. Bloudek and his team nonetheless went ahead and flouted the rules in creating a so-called "mammoth hill" specifically designed for previously unimaginable distances. "Bloudkova velikanka" originally had a K-point of 90 m, by far the largest of any hill at the time, but was upgraded in less than two years to in eager anticipation of the 100+ m jumps to come. In 1938, exactly two years to the day of his milestone jump, Josef Bradl improved his world record by a wide margin to .