Olympic Potential of goldenchild

shaman · December 30, 2008, 3:20pm

I’ve lately been curious about the athletic potential of a guy by the name of goldenchild.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMp7KbtP-98

Clearly from this and other videos, the guy is a ridiculously high vertical jumper, and has insane elasticity. I highly doubt that he has done “proper training.” He’s likely just naturally capable of bouncing up 50 or so inches.

What could this guy do if put on a proper training program and coached by someone such as Charliefrancis? Obviously, one can’t precisely determine sprinting performance based on a running two legged jump but when you’re 10 standard deviations above the vertical jump average, I’d assume that with great training, you’d have to be at least a few standard deviations above the sprinting/high jump/long jump average. Sure there are guys like squatdr who can jump similarly high who are not olympic level sprinters. But squatdr has run elite level 60 m times and I believe has gone as fast as 10.22 seconds in the 100m. Goldenchild is jumping about as high having most likely, never set foot in a squat rack, and having likely done no training but calf raises, high rep body weight quarter squats, and endless plyos.

What are your guys thoughts on his potential to achieve elite/olympic status as a sprinter?

It’d be cool if someone could take this guy in as a project and see how far he could be taken. I’m sure he’d rather play ball but it’d be cool to see how far he could go.

Look up Squatdr’s official meet times… he isn’t close to 10.2.