Something tells me a serious olympic high jumper could totally do this.

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You're right yogi. If this guy was taller even he could probably get higher. Box jumps are part of my plyometric workout and my highest box I end with is 57 inches. That last 7 and a half inches in a lot respectively but with practice maybe you'll see me on here!

I work on a sports video analysis app in my day job and I see a lot of videos of box jumps coming in from the crossfit crowd. It's pretty impressive stuff and I'm blown away by a lot of the jumps people are pulling off.

The thing that really impresses me about the crossfit crowd is that they aren't just focusing on any one activity. They do everything: olympic weight lifts, tons of varied exercise routines, muscle ups or whatever on those rings, those crazy pullups where they lift their body all the way up, lifting giant stone balls... (atleast, they look like stone balls, I honestly am not yet sure what they are made of)

It's enough to make me get off my ass and stop being so sedentary. I am not sure I'll ever be hardcore enough to roll with that crowd, though.

Where's the blooper reel? I want to see what happens when he doesn't stick the landing.

Next time, 10,000 FPS.

I tried Crossfit and although I observed really troubling cult like behavior, you simply cannot argue with the results. A lot of the people who do crossfit are extremely fit and able to do just about anything.

However my criticism over it despite it's cult like atmosphere is the fact that no serious professional athlete is a crossfitter. Now they may do various crossfit exercises but they don't do anything like what Crossfitters seem to be doing. As well, the Crossfit competitions lack skill and mental tactics to be all that interesting. It's literally just watching people do a lot of work, which is fine but not exciting nor really a good advertisement of the sport.

I doubt it, they're umping in a completely different way using completely different movements. I thinking maybe a rower, cyclist or speed skater. Huge leg muscles and no body fat.

It's a very impressive jump though, I doubt there would be many people able to do this.

Wouldn't that be because a "serious professional athlete" would be more of a specialist, whereas crossfit seems more about general fitness?

disclaimer: haven't actually tried crossfit myself (had signed up, but that pesky earthquake messed things up for me)

Sorry to say it but you failed. For the world record you need to measure in metric. Better luck next time!

Bill Gates would beat him.
http://videosift.com/video/Bill-Gates-jumping-over-a-chair-like-a-gangster

STUD

Fraud. He obviously has air blowers in his shoes.