64" (162.5cm) Standing Front Box Jump

How can one achieve these numbers? One of my fitness goals by the end of the year is to be able to dunk a basketball.

 

Very impressive.

 

Basically just train correctly. stretch your hip flexors, that's a big thing. Most importantly jump. The best way to increase your vert is to do that. Or be Jake pudenz. Honkey got hops.

 

Impressive. Mad hops.

 

That's fucking impressive.

There is a video of Dwain Chaimbers doing a 68 inch box jump, but that's with a run up. The thing I can't get over is wouldn't it be fucking easy to hurt yourself jumping on a hight like these, on top of boxes like the ones in the OP vid?

 

Because they're stacked ? or?

I can't recall if the boxes in the vid are stacked.

 

For those who work on their box jump height, how do you safely fail a jump? As I move up in height inevitably I will fail, but I don't want to injure myself. Any thoughts?

 

Wow, looks ridiculous when hes standing in front of them in the beginning

nice hops

 

What I do:

Don't move up the height by too much - even if you fail you will be able to get your feet on the box, but you won't be able to 'roll' forward onto the box - so just push off the box and land on the ground.

If you commit to the jump, and the the box is way too high, meaning you don't get any part of your feet on the box... something bad might happen.

 

Dude appeared to be using a whole fuckload of bumper plates, all stacked up.

 

Like this of course.

 

Not only is he jumping that high, but how impressive is how clean it is which is 100% require when landing on a stack of objects like that, ie not solid.




What height is considered good?

I am no master at this, nor have I been told this is the best way to do it BUT what I do is

A, not move up to much at a time. Obviously.

B, if I am jumping and realise I am notgoing to make it I put one leg/shin horizontal on the top of the box (if you were close to making it this will be easy) and then kind of sit onto that. I find this good because it means I don't push the box over (which is where things get messy).

 

And yet he prolly can't even dunk a basketball, this is not how to measure vertical jump your legs have to be straight out. This measure more of his flexibility to pull his knees up that high and fast but not pure jumping ability

 

Lets do some rough numbers,

5'4" box
and lets say he is 5'7"
To make it onto the box he needs his hips to be as high as the top of the box.
Lets assume his hips are roughly half his height , 2'10"

5'4" plus 2'10" equals 8'2"
So that how high his head got.

Lets say he needs to get to his fingers 10'6" high to dunk.
then he needs to get his fingers (10'6"-8'2" = ) 2'4" above his head.

I am going to say you are probably right, no dunking.

Its all rough and rather meaningless, but I enjoy doing stuff like this.

 

Pretty damn impressive.

I can dunk a basketball, but I can't do that.

 

An impressive sight, but box jumps seem to have an element of attention whoring greater than any other exercise. I've noticed there's always an audience involved.

 

You should see me on my conditioning days. I bring a team of cheerleaders.