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Mike Conley Sr. was a freak athlete and it got me thinking, how far can I dunk from?
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This might be the most impressive distance dunk of all time
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Now, multiple people have jumped from the free throw line, but the thing is, they're all really tall
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Like, I'm talking 6'5 plus, but this guy right here was only 6'1
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and he's actually the father of Mike Conley Jr. His name is Mike Conley Sr., and he was an elite long jumper
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and was only 6 feet and 1 inch. And not only was he that height
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he also might have the farthest dunk ever. And as I was researching this, it got me thinking, how far could I dunk from
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But there's only one problem. I'm a two foot jumper. And to jump far, it requires running really fast and really short ground contact times
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which is only really possible off one. That's why we've seen dozens of free throw line dunks at this point
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but nobody has ever jumped with both feet behind the free throw line. But we're going to try anyways for the sake of science
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I started by placing the box six feet away from the hoop, and I worked my way up, moving up six inches at a time
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And to be honest, it was really easy at first. I went from six to six, six, to seven, to seven, six
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all the way up to nine, and it was honestly pretty easy until I got to nine, six
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where I started missing for the first time. However, did you know that caffeine
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might be the only legal substance that shows a measurable increase in your vertical jump
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based off of a ton of research studies? But I realized that at this point
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I was probably getting limited by going off the dribble. So I got a friend to go throw me a lob
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And with this method, I went from 9'6 to 10 to 10'6 and all the way to 11 feet. When I got to 11'6
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it was requiring me to put my back foot behind the free throw line, which if you don't know how
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difficult that is, I want you to go to a basketball court and try to even just touch the net by
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jumping with your back foot on the free throw line. It's extremely difficult. However, I had a
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A lot of fun and I'm super excited to try this again. Now let me know, what jumping challenge should I try next
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