Aside from Kate Upton’s weight and whether or not a sport is rugby (spoiler: it is never rugby), vertical leap videos are the most hotly argued posts on With Leather. Wait, I forgot grenades. Kate Upton’s midsection, rugby not being rugby and how grenades work, then vertical leaps.

I’m sure our readers will find a way to explain why this isn’t special, but as far as I can tell, this is Dan Sullivan of Monmouth University executing a flawless, 65-inch box jump, made all the more impressive by the fact that he’s built like He-Man. White Men Can’t Jump jokes will be accepted, but are not encouraged.

I’m going to spend the rest of the day trying to box jump things. Video of me tripping over my coffee table and giving myself a concussion is pending.

[updated h/t to HRR]

Maybe the next time he tries to clear a golf cart he’ll wear tighter shorts. And maybe a shirt. (via Sports Grid)

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Maybe it’s not a camera phone at all, maybe someone hooked up a JVC Slim Cam to a word processor and let it be struck by lightning until it got Internet.

You might have to turn down the volume before you hit play, but don’t let it lessen the incredible athletic accomplishment of leaper Justin Bethel, a six-foot defensive back from Presbyterian College. Bethel jumped a reported 39.5 inches at the combine, and while the jump isn’t technically the “60-inch vertical leap” you’ll see it advertised as elsewhere, it’s still a guy setting up a shorter man’s height in boxes and flat-footing it to the top.

And hey, it might not help him in his career, it’s at least inspired a level of discussion online ranging from “you are an angel I met your dad and I love you” to “chris chase needs to be fired”. That’s a true sign that you’ve made it.

[h/t poor Chris Chase at Shutdown Corner]

Or, “more like PARK-our, am I right?”

British long jump champion J.J. Jegede, who I think we all agree could use a few more Js in his name, jumped over three MINIs this week as part of a promotional event for a new, 2012 limited edition of the vehicle, and to promote his own Olympic dreams. Jegede is looking to make his first Olympics, and according to Chris Chase at Fourth-Place Medal, the roughly six-meter jump would have earned him 8th place at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. If he’d dunked at the end of it he would’ve won Rookie of the Year.

Of course, he didn’t really jump over them, he just jumped the length of them side-by-side. If he’d actually jumped over three MINIs he wouldn’t be headed to the Olympics, he’d be outfitted with a patriotic suit and sent somewhere to fight Nazis.

We didn’t do a full day of updates yesterday, so we missed out on a few important stories, including the wedding of Tony Romo (aka “the only way he’s ever going to get a ring”) or Man U vs Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League Finals (neither team won), but the most important thing we missed is this video from the Indy 500, wherein a guy in a car drives down a big for-real Hot Wheels track and breaks a world record. It’s cool, but not as cool as that time I drove my big wheel down the hill.

From the YouTube description:

The Yellow Driver of Team Hot Wheels breaks the world record for distance jump in a four-wheeled vehicle at the Indianapolis 500 on May 29th 2011. Watch as the Yellow Driver, Tanner Foust, drops 10 stories down 90 feet of orange track and soars 332 feet through the air.

Of course a guy named “Tanner Foust” would want to drive on a life-size Hot Wheels track. Now that we’ve played out this exercise in American excess, we should concentrate on more pressing issues, such as building a stunt track around an active volcano or creating a car that changes color when it drives through water. Or maybe our President can finally get around to pulling all of our G.I. Joes out of the Middle East.

I've often thought of asking Lance Armstrong why he rides his bicycle up mountains. I figured out a car was the less physically exhausting way to go when I was still riding big wheels. Anyway, that was Chris Bryant plying his trade for Nike, but before that, he was known as the "Akron car jumper":

Too bad there isn't a sport where people jump over cars. Imagine if Michigan State had a really good car jumping team and hey won the national championship. And East Lansing was ablaze with burning cars. That's how new sports are created. -KD

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