It hurts just to watch this college football player's insane 60-inch box jump
Maybe you prefer a life of leisure and don't know what a box jump is. If so, a box jump is an exercise in which you try to leap onto as high a platform as possible while sticking the landing and not falling over backwards onto your head.
Box jumps look really hard, and impressive clips comprise their own little sub-genre on the sports Internet.
But this one -- allegedly a 60-inch box jump performed from a sitting start with a 10-pound weight vest on -- is on a whole other level.
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Our box jump hero today is Derrick Willies. Willies is a wide receiver who will play for Texas Tech next season after playing this past season at Trinity Valley Community College. But enough introduction -- JUST WATCH THIS BOX JUMP!
Willies is 6-foot-4. To recap: That box he jumped on top of without falling is 60 inches tall, which is 5 feet; he had a 10-pound weight vest on.
Suffice to say, Willies bears keeping an eye on next season at Texas Tech.
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Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
