Highest Jump EVER? 52 Inch Vertical Behind The Scenes and Thoughts 

I actually jump 56”, the only thing I need is my trampoline

His vertical so high that he took fall damage.

Did he eat the spring-spring fruit?

Are you kidding me?! A fifty two inch vert... that is the highest I’ve ever heard of someone jumping. Great stuff.

Damn after all those attempts he just jumps higher and higher that's some serious strength stamina. His whole head and shoulders where above and at the rim. Unbelievable!!

Years ago in '79, I was a 17-year-old high school senior, 6-3 with a 33-inch vertical and back then, that was something in my neck of the woods. Walked around with ankle weights all day to help me get there. David Thompson was my favorite player. Later that year in Navy boot camp my company had about 40-50 kids in it, mostly from the inner city. The irony is in the boot camp Olympics (I guess that's what they called it back then), I represented my squad in the standing broad jump. The brothers loved it. Said they'd never seen a white guy jump like that. Those military years playing basketball all over the globe were tough times but fun times. I balled against international players long before their reputations finally made it stateside. Anyways...the training and technology available today to help these kids reach unprecedented levels of athleticism is off the charts. Good for them and kudos for you guys helping 'em to get there. It's tough doing it alone.

Congrats Jamal! That's really impressive! Please be careful - don't get hurt using all that levitation! I hope you maximize your entire game.

Yup that’s insane . Good work . I’m wondering wth did he do to get the extra 7inc from already a crazy high 45 in Vert ??! Can u post that info ?

00:24 LMFAOOOO

My highest recorded vertical was 40 inches in high school. Too bad the internet wasn’t a thing back then so I don’t have any footage of it.

Interesting how low the reach is on some of these guys. I'm 6'1.5" to 6'2" and I can just touch the ceiling in most homes where the standard height is 8 ft or 96 inches. While my wingspan is longer than my height by 2-3 inches, my arms aren't that long. Tells you that a lot of these guys are inflating their verticals by minimizing their reach on these tests.

I wish we had the knowledge back in the day when I played. Players are jumping soo much higher now a days.

Yo in my personal opinion is that, it doesn't matter if there are errors in this measurements or what his vert is. The thing is that, Paul can get your vert more even if you already have elite number.

0:17 He looked at his vert and was like “ah yes. That’s pleasing to see”

Thank you for explaining how the vertical is measured with its variables.

Impressive! Crazy hang time!!!! Though Sotomayor high jumped a WR over 8 ft (over 96 inches). That is the bar was UNDERNEATH him when passing, so add another 2-3 feet.....

Dennis King had a 60INCH at 5'10 inch in 1993...his BOOK IS CALLED DENNIS KING THE HIGHEST JUMPER TO EVER WALK THIS EARTH... He got his STOMACH TO A 10FT B-BALL RIM

The hands-free head swipe method on the vertec can't be cheated. Daniel Kabeya hit 50" inches, so he's the record holder. This dude needs to use the same method. Maybe he'll swipe it at 51" or 52" and give Kabeya a run for his money. Until then, Kabeya is the world record holder IMO.

I can feel every tendon in my knee tearing trying to land a 52 inch vertical

1:36 First year high schoolers on their first day

He's 6'2". I'll believe he has a 52 inch vertical if I see the top of his head six inches above a 10-foot rim. We never see that with these guys. And no, I don't mean with the camera at shin-height and the player between the camera and the rim like all these channels seem to do when they're trying to impress us.

Imo on that highest jump he did, he would get a higher touch if he was more comfortable with his arms swing movement while he was in the air. I went to check back on the zion vert test, zion was so balance in the air, his upper-body handled the explosiveness extremely well. Nevertheless, 45 to 52, thats insanely unbelievable, i’d love to hear so indept analysis about this leap in vert jump, because i believe there must be some “trade-off” if he was able to gain so much in vertical in such a short time, there should be some changes in “horizontal” performance aspects. Because i once read that quarter squats inc vert but it puts you in some disadvantages in distance running speed,etc. please do some experiment/scientific investigation 👏🏻👏🏻 Cant wait for more crazy stuffs from your channel

I do remember in my prime of vertical jumping (20-21 yrs old) having "those days" where I was feeling super explosive and could jump a legitimate 5-6" higher than any AVG day. I could never explain it. Diet? Rest? Types of physical activity I had done leading up to it? It was like the planets aligned or something. Average day, I would get around 38-39" but on those special days I'd be getting 44-46". Again, I'd measure the exact same way (7'0 standing reach [I'm short] to a 10'10). Do you think Jamal had one of those days like I mentioned? There's gotta be a solid scientific answer for this too just haven't heard of one.

how does this guy not burn up on reentry into our atmosphere?

Use the "Just Jump" mat with your Vertec!

My dad was 5’9” in Newark pd sgt test did a 3’6” vertical leap that’s free standing not running...it’s on record. Back in the late 50’s.... he was dunking almost at 50 yrs old....I seen him with his head over the basket and block guys 6’6” to 6’8” with ease.... he’s 87 and has trouble walking now but was a freak.

Just by seeing this makes me wanna work hard more. I'm 5'7 btw and I tapped a 9'11 ring..

8:17 if you look at this jump the highest point he could reach would be with more extension in his back the slight bend forward at the hips AND at the shoulder took some height away and is likely why he was able to increase his vert from here. More to do with the form of his jump and the placement of the marker.

I had a 50inch vertical high school I just didint have the cameras on because you know social media wasn’t as big of a thing back then

His foot reached waist high of the guy next to him.

I jumped to 74" I just didn't have the cameras on

If the guy can get his head about halfway or so above the rim, then its legit

If you take two screenshots of the jumper at apex and put them side by side the athlete's heels at apex are even with his waist when standing on the ground. Another clue, the top of his head at apex is roughly the height of the rim, ten feet. This is also correlated by the 12'2" leaping reach, working backward from arm length. You can also compare him to the height of the coach standing on the ground. Even with the coach crouching down, the athlete's heels only reaches the coach's sternum. This is a roughly 38 inch vertical. Which is an excellent and NBA caliber jump, but not a Guinness world record.

When I was in school you couldn’t “run” for a “vertical” leap.🤷‍♂️

If you can, ask to Miami Hurricanes college for a kid they had, I think he was puertorrican, he was 6'1 1/2 and he could get his nose to rim level, and the Hurricanes said that in fact his vertical was 52" He played for the Clippers for a couple of weeks like in '07 or 08', but after that he disappeared. I did saw him one in when he played for the Hurricanes, and it was crazy, in warm up he jumped to show how much of his head could be at rim level, at it was up to his nose.

test should either be with both arms extended above the head or no arms and just measure how high the head gets. its not the best solution, but much harder to manipulate the results.

Naptownnnnnnnn!!!!💯‼️🙌🏾💪🏾

Beast mode. Amazing. Eat that whole food C and grass fed/finished liver so that lysyl oxidase has the bio-copper it needs to keep that collagen to avoid injury.

Pffft. I can jump 100 meters. On a catapult...

And a video pops up on recommended why its almost impossible to jump higher than 50 inch... smh

Zion should drop his weight and get a 55in vert

This is a very sound analysis... Great work!

Yes, let the athlete decide how long their approach is. In track and field, athletes decide how long their approach is. I wonder how high he could do the high jump?

I have an 80 inch vert. But like I just didnt have the cameras on at the time

Did he touch an inch over top of backboard? If so then he is the highest jumper ever

He goes up.

I actually got a 57 inch vertical. But…my friends Android got stolen when he was recording.

damn think about the impact on those knees from jumping that high

The six inch box under the pole is actually a pad so the pole is sinking into it by an inch.

Truly incredible for a guy of such statue to leap that high!

There was a video I watched sometime ago on RU-vid where some street baller out of the Los Angeles area appeared to have a higher vertical jump inside a gymnasium. It was being filmed and he was competing against some other guys so it was legit.

But can he shoot like Ben Simmons?

First round draft gonna go crazy

Since when do they allow a running start on the vert test? We only got 1 step. My piddly 38” in college would have gone up another 5”-6” with a run up.

12.2ft that's unbelievable he can touch the top of the back board just plain insane💪💪💪

True Vertical Leap measurements are suppose to be done without a running start. Way back in the 70's when I did my jumps, I hit 38" off of a NO RUN UP jump. Put this kid on a no run up jump and then I'll be impressed.

Can he dunk?

I think error would be most likely to come from the box elevation. The weight of the vertec seems to be pushing into the soft box, and the back of the vertec is light, so this may cause the vertec to lean.

I can do that in my sleep

Too old to jump much anymore, but damn I miss it. Flying through the air best feeling ever.

Honestly i actually believe this, since if tdub could get his head to the rim then I think even a 55 might be possible

I just tore my knee up watching this

This guy superman lands on every jump

12 .2 I have a huge screen GHAT DANG GEEZUS

Why why why dont you measure verticals using the vertex of peoples head? For example : if you are 6’ tall and get the top of your head to 10’,That would be an accurate 48” . All that scapular packing stuff would not even matter

Damn that's 47 more inches than my vertical.

It’s crazy how most nba guys get a running start and nfl wide receiver and defense backs get the same or close

It's amazing how he can jump so high and his knees just can't keep up with the ability :D Does he have springs in his shoes? :D

Why not do both? Keep the vertek and register the measurement as a "classic" vert. Do the modern approach, accounting for plantar flexion etc, and call it the "true" vert.

I want to know what makes him so different than other people - physiologically/anatomically speaking. Why can he jump so high compared to literally everyone else? His legs aren't massive. He doesn't LOOK much different than most athletes.

If he tried to dunk, he would be in danger of not being able to reach down far enough to get the ball in the basket.

I played college basketball in the late 80's...we were always taught a true vertical test is 1 step jump off two feet. I will bet he is still around a 1 step 45" tho which is sick but what he did is not a true vertical leap they way we did them. Please test him off one step or no step, then you can say that's his true vertical is...Id be very interested

I can jump with 60 inch vertical ...in the moon

I could’ve jumped that high if I kept training and didn’t injure myself when I was 10(4’3/4”) I could jump my own height but I came back down one day broke my ankle and since then I barely even run anymore. Lol. Nobody asked but this takes me back I’m 19 btw.

World record breaker and all he need was 3 actually steps. This ain't even his 7 step approach or maybe he doesn't jump that high on a 7 step acceleration. The last two steps hit the floor like a quick cheetah. It's crazy that he only required a 3 step approach for his max vert.

I had 27 vert and I was the highest jumper in my gym class. 😂

Just imagine what sports would be like 10 or 20 years from now. We are evolving and our athletic abilities are getting better every year, records are breaking every year. I think 10 years from now and a 30 to 40 inch will be considered average.

This is nothing! I can jump 72" ... on the moon where the gravity is 1/6 that of the Earth

His jump is very very high...But I believe world record belongs to Javier Sotomayor the world record holder for the high jump. I calculated his max vert to be somewhere in the range of 58 inches.

Don’t care about vert or standing reach only care about max touch

The landing was impressive! He jumped that high.

To get a true accurate measure of vertical jump a person has to tip toe and stretch as high as they can to get a true accurate measure of vertical leap. You cannot give the person tip toe inches because they are not actually off the floor until they jump and reach there maximum before they actually leave the floor.

his ankles gonna feel that in 20 years.

Let me tell you... back in my days....

In 2019 Brett Williams set the current Guinness World Record standing platform jump at 65 inches.

What was Harlem Globetrotter“Wild Thing” Michael Wilson’s vertical ?

This dude jump do high he lands like he just jumped out of a tree.. Lmao. Crazy ability

THAT's crazy man !!

I wonder what Mike Powell's vertical leap was. He got UP on his long jump world record

Hang time on the non slo mo'ed jumps check out On first jump, I got 49.4 inches 48 to 51.5 on second jump 48.4 to 51.7 on third jump 51.7 on 4th jump 52.6 on 5th jump But on his highest 6th jump, it was slo mo'ed... so it's definitely 52 or higher

If I jump that high, Id probably shit myself on the way down..

I'm 6'1.5 without shoes,with a 6'6 wingspan and a 96 inch reach. I'm pretty long for my height. I had about a 40 inch vert when I was younger. That kid has mad hops. One thing I'd definitely say to him is becareful not to over do it with the jumping. No practicing dunking for 45 minutes -1hr or more sessions. The wear and rare definitely catches up to you. Your right those NBA drafts numbers seem off.

That is crazy bounce

Is it normal to have a running start for the vertical jump?

Couldn't even dap up my bro because of the corona 😂🤦‍♀️

What's his vertical flatfooted no running just jump straight up? That's how my high school Basketball coach use to measure us.

Does the vert code program help with hang time

it must be a guinness book of world record!

He jumped so high he made Peppa pig look short

Enjoy it while ya' CAN---it doesn't LAST!