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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: noeasywayout on June 05, 2012, 10:14:28 AM
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Valeriy Nikolayevich Brumel (Russian: Валерий Николаевич Брумель), 14 April 1942 – 26 January 2003)[1] was a Soviet Olympic athlete. The 1964 Olympic champion in the Men's High Jump, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes ever to compete in the High Jump, second only to current world record holder Javier Sotomayor of Cuba. Brumel set records in the early 1960s while falling over 7 feet into a sawdust pit, and often while jumping off hard dirt. If given a modern synthetic rubber jumping surface and an (elevated) foam rubber landing pad, Brumel could probably have jumped several inches higher. His jumping career was up-ended by a motorcycle accident in 1965.
Biography
Brumel began going in for sports at age 12 in Lugansk, coached by P. S. Shtein. At age 16 he cleared 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in the high jump, using the (then, dominate) straight-leg straddle technique. From the age of 17, he improved his skills under the coaching of V. M. Dyachkov in Moscow. In 1960 he broke the USSR record, 2.17 metres (7 ft 1 in), and made the Olympic Team. At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he scored the same result as the winner Robert Shavlakadze but made more attempts and won the silver (2nd place).[1] He broke the world record for the high jump six times from 1961 to 1963, from 2.23 metres (7 ft 4 in) to 2.28 metres (7 ft 6 in).[2] He won gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
After going undefeated during the 1965 season, Brumel injured his right leg in a motorcycle accident. Even after undergoing 29 operations, he could never get his career back on track, though he jumped 2.06 metres (6 ft 9 in) in 1970.
Achievements
[edit] Olympic Games
Silver medal, XVII Olympic Games, Rome (1960)
Gold medal, XVIII Olympic Games, Tokyo (1964)
[edit] Miscellaneous
Master of Sports of the USSR, 1961
USSR Champion, 1961 and 1963
European champion, 1962
ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year, 1963
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thats an impressive kick at the basketball hoop, if only someone would do that same kick at westbrooks head when he went for a dunk ;)
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That's a white man. :D
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I trained him ;D
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thats an impressive kick at the basketball hoop, if only someone would do that same kick at westbrooks head when he went for a dunk ;)
;D ;D ;D
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Theres quite a few guys that can kick that far up the backboard
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Work with Gerald Green and James white on their leg flexibility and im sure they would be kicking higher than the rim
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Superior Eastern Bloc genetics
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It's always a damn "motorcycle accident".
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That's Soviet Power right there !!
Bring the Cold war back
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Hahahaha...nevermind.
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Theres quite a few guys that can kick that far up the backboard
Work with Gerald Green and James white on their leg flexibility and im sure they would be kicking higher than the rim
Lots of potential, and they decided to play a stupid ball game as their "career". ;D ::)
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It's always a damn "motorcycle accident".
Duane Allman nods in agreement.
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I'vs recently noticed hundreds of shoe prints on the cross beams in most LV parking structures about 8 t0 10 feet off the deck. And some a bit higher.
It this a common sight in other US cities?
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It's nothing for the pros of today to dunk. It's much too easy for them.
The rim should be raised 2 feet to make it more challenging.