65 inch vertical??

[tornado]

Here's a web site and You-tube-like video promoting a guy as supposedly having a 65" vertical and being the highest jumper/dunker there is...

http://www.beastfitnation.com/super-hops-highest-jumper-in-the-world-dunker-justin-darlington/

OK - call me a skeptic..but here are my concerns...

-if the guy is really that good - why just the one single grainy, cheap video?

-use the stop action and you will see the ball he is using is clearly NOT a regular sized basketball - it appears to be smaller than a volleyball.
Especially when it is lying on the floor it appears to be about 7 inches in diameter..this makes it easier to dunk!

-when he jumps to touch high on the backboard - he clearly "cheats" and helps his elevation by grabbing the backboard and pulling himself up.

-even with the cheating, he touches about 18 inches above the rim - something I have seen other people do...

http://ronerickeysmileymorningshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/dwight-howard-sticker-dunk.jpg

-unless the guy is only 5 feet tall, a vertical of 65 inches (5 ft-5 inches) would easily put the guy's head a foot over the rim...
AND YET - in this entire grainy video his head really never once goes over the rim.

-In his other YouTube videos, this guy claims to be 6'4", so if that is the case, a 65 inch vertical should
put the top of his head at 11 ft - 5 inches...more than a foot over the rim - and I just don't see it.

[Old Coach]

If he has a 65" vertical, I'd like to see him tested on the device that actually measures a standing vertical.

[runninfiend]

ridiculous.

that would be a world record by 5 inches and the best ever recorded at the nba and nfl combines together--almost 28 inches better than the best nba combine vert.

[Da Coach]

Here is a YouTube video I came across of a 5'5" guy who dunks easily. Pretty impressive vertical-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CbltipuUQI

[wily coyote]

Here is a YouTube video I came across of a 5'5" guy who dunks easily. Pretty impressive vertical-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CbltipuUQI

That's pretty impressive. I'm 5'5" and can't touch the net. lol

[bigjimmy]

I saw this guys video on ESPN SportsNation and it's pretty impressive. He can do it with either hand.

[LittleBrave]

If he has a 65" vertical, I'd like to see him tested on the device that actually measures a standing vertical.

No kidding!

He got "close" to 65 inches when he bent his legs on some of those dunks, but even that seemed more like 60 inches from the floor to the bottom of his shoe.
I would give him 5" over Walt, but not much more.

[Future Walk-On]

there are tons of SPAMMY/ADDY sites and adds about getting insane verticals

[Braves4Life]

Here's an insane high school dunk that has gone viral -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MerJp...layer_embedded

[LongTimeFan]

It looked like his head was partially above the rim. It may have just been the camera angle. It was a great dunk.

[tornado]

hey - watch that replay again and stop it at 0:06 ...
and what you see is that the dunker helps his elevation by about a full foot by planting his right foot onto the player defending him and taking an extra push off that guy - effectively using him as a trampoline.

[lefty]

hey - watch that replay again and stop it at 0:06 ...
and what you see is that the dunker helps his elevation by about a full foot by planting his right foot onto the player defending him and taking an extra push off that guy - effectively using him as a trampoline.

I didn't think his right foot pushed off....his definitely went into him...but I couldn't see the push

[Braves4Life]

I didn't think his right foot pushed off....his definitely went into him...but I couldn't see the push

Oh, it was definitely a right foot push off on the kid. That is how it was reported that he got so high above the rim. Imagine the days of running and wall walking to spring up to those baskets on the side of those old grade school gyms. That is how this was done.

[lefty]

Oh, it was definitely a right foot push off on the kid. That is how it was reported that he got so high above the rim. Imagine the days of running and wall walking to spring up to those baskets on the side of those old grade school gyms. That is how this was done.

well...I am getting older so I guess the eyesight isn't quite there