Now after an Achilles surgery and turning 50 this year maybe 2 feet on a good day.
What is your standing verticle?
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Not sure what my standing vertical was when I was younger, but I can hang with the best of em now in the laying horizontal.
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I am about 40lb heavier than college which was early 90’s but I can touch 10’ rim off one foot jump. Played 1 year off hoops NAIA and then 2 years D-1 baseball but would still likely need multiple orthopedic appts after to be able to get back to work lol
Even though I played lots of ball I was never a great jumper. I am (or was) 6'4" but could only dunk a tennis ball. Now, you could maybe slide a piece of paper between my feet and the ground when I jump. But, I am 65 years old now and about 80 pounds heavier than what I played at. I did make up for my lack of jumping prowess by being slow afoot too. I could shoot and pass very well though.
I can no longer grab the rim....if that answers your question. When I was 37 I told my wife my goal was to be able to dunk a volleyball at 40. Never did it. I like beer and cigars more.
Way back in the day like my teen age years one of my buddies had an outdoor backboard and basket. One day we took a camera and took turns dunking the ball while one of us took pictures . We one handed some, slammed some two handed ones and a couple of us managed a reverse. ........ Of course we had dragged a picnic table up and jumped off it. Best I can remember they looked real good. I'd love to see those pictures again but no one seems to know whatever happened to them. OFC
I have no idea. I could get rim when I was in my early 20s. Now I can maybe get mid to lower net. Not sure how the math works out.
Going to measure my vert tomorrow. I really want to get to 24 inches, but I’m guessing 20 is my max.
Back in the good old days when I was what I thought decently atheletic I could grab the rim.
One weak moment in 2007 at age 57 I decided to buy a motorcycle and shortly thereafter ended my ability to ever run or jump again due to a torn up knee.
One weak moment in 2007 at age 57 I decided to buy a motorcycle and shortly thereafter ended my ability to ever run or jump again due to a torn up knee.
I doubt I had 20 at 18 years old!!
In school, I could get a couple inches above the bottom of the net. I don’t know what that would measure, but that’s also with a running start. My sport was baseball!
High enough to reach it...low enough not to pull anything.
I just turned 52 today so I tried my vertical....I caught the binder on the phone book but I still landed on top and called it quits after that close call of face planting.
Happy birthday!
Was that one of those big thick phone books, or like the little thin ones for local only?
thank you it was a Stokes county book so it’s fairly thin, but as long as Pitt wins and our Devils win it is still a great birthday