By someone I know has to be a world record of some sort!! he's 5'9" 210lbs - and drug free I might add http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UBkRpMStjM A good example of what a big squat will do for your hops
Kadour Ziani is 5'11", supposedly has a 56" vertical, has legs like toothpicks, and looks like a damn Turkish sheepherder with bad teeth. Oh, and he can kick a ball that's wedged between the rim and the backboard. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mc_s4U7yuY4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mc_s4U7yuY4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
The 50 inch vertical jump is standing flat footed though, no shuffling of feet, no step or anything, just think about it for a second..... The guy has done a standing elbow hang dunk before! Only once though, it requires insane timing I haven't seen anyone even try do it over 6 feet, I don't think even Dwight Howard could do it
Just expanding on what CoolColJ was getting at, a lot of people tend to think "vertical" just means how high you can jump. That's not really it. It's how high straight up with no momentum...so a lot of people (Ziani for example, who is strictly a one-foot jumper) don't necessarily have crazy verticals even though they can jump really high with an approach or a running start. It's not to say that someone like Ziani isn't impressive, because he most certainly is. But "vertical" is a term that I think is thrown around pretty loosely when it's really meant to describe something very specific. Anyway, in regards to the original thread topic...that is insane. I don't know why they did the entire video using still images though. Would have even more impressive with some live action thrown in.
I made the video, but only had photos his wife took to work with There will be vidoes if I can get hold of them there is a video and interview from a few months back taken by a local newspaper. He wasn't jumping quite as high as he is now off course http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fj9J0rkQ2Q his vertical went from the low 30s in college to where is now. You can certainly increase it a lot over time! interview http://www.argusleader.com/article/20090115/COLUMNISTS0113/901150307/-1/voices