Rocky Top Talk · Oct 22, 2019
Making the Leap: Yves Pons
Photo by Donald Page/Getty ImagesI can’t write a story for our “Making the Leap,” series about Yves Pons and not start it out with video of him jumping from the free-throw line and dunking a basketball.
#WellActually I mean, I guess I could. But I won’t. No such egregious injustice shall prosper on my watch. No, sir/ ma’am.
“Siri, show me poetry in motion.”
It’s 15 feet horizontally from the free-throw line to the rim, and it’s 10 feet vertically from the ground to the rim. That’s an actual human person soaring through the air looking like more bird than mammal. It’s just an incredible amount of ground to cover with a single jump (Bound? Leap? Flight?)
