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This is the highest jump I've ever seen in a basketball game
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Or is it? This is the highest jump LeBron has ever done in a basketball game
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Or is it? And this is the highest jump I've ever had in a basketball game
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Or was it? Let's look closer at the first jump. Pay attention to where his knee at and what the guy under him is doing
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Now, look at LeBron's jump. Look at what the defender is doing to his armpit with his arm
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And then look at the guy underneath me and what his arms are doing to me
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See, all three of those jumps have one thing in common. There was a push-off element
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Our good friend Isaac Newton said, for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction
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This is how jumping happens. Push into the ground, and then the ground pushes back on you
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And if it's really hard, it's enough to get you off of the air. In all three of these cases, there's an athlete trying to dunk a basketball
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They are traveling upwards, and then there's a guy underneath them applying a force upwards, which is accelerating them even higher into the air
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And then sometimes, and this is especially common for one foot jumps, some of the craziest highlights we've ever seen of one foot dunkers in a game are from this leg right here
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The drive knee. See, they jump up and then they push down on the defender and essentially use them as a stepping stool to put themselves higher up in the air
