[Jump33]

Jump33 on May 7, 2009 at 8:56 am #15713

I’ve been lurking on this site for a while but have never posted. Just wanted to know what people think of this guy. His name is Justin Darlington from Toronto. He’s a 20 year old basketball dunker now trying high jump.

Apparently he’s jumped 2.19 but off two legs

Any thoughts?

[Mike Young]

Mike Young on May 7, 2009 at 4:12 pm #83030

Very interesting. I had heard about the guy but never seen him jump. Pretty impressive. Without being able to jump off of 1 foot though he won’t have much of a chance in the HJ.

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[RussZHC]

RussZHC on May 8, 2009 at 1:57 am #83044

Provided it had happened “on the day”, that 2.19 would have been 3rd at Cdn Senior Nat in 2008 and is .09 from the 2009 World “B” standard.

[Mike Young]

Mike Young on May 8, 2009 at 2:13 am #83045

You can’t jump off of 2 feet in a high jump competition so it’s almost the equivalent of winning a shot put competition with an underweight shot.

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[B Hobbs]

B Hobbs on May 8, 2009 at 3:47 am #83054

FYI there is video of him HJ’ing on youtube.

Not too impressive

[dan1990]

dan1990 on May 8, 2009 at 8:06 am #83066

here is a video of him highjumping with one leg 2m 10cm#

[Mike Young]

Mike Young on May 8, 2009 at 8:16 am #83070

That’s not too bad considering the guy is just running straight at the bar (without a curve). The curve is really the key component to making the flop work. Without it you have to generate all of the necessary forces for rotation at the instant of takeoff rather than setting them up through the curve. If that is indeed 2.10m the I would guess the guy could probably jump 2.3+ if he learned to run a curve with a little speed.

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[Nick Newman]

Nick Newman on May 9, 2009 at 6:52 am #83116

Ok that between legs dunk off the flip thing – easily one the of the best dunks ever ever of all time…