This is awful.
I SUCK at golf and I average over 250 yards with my driver.
This is awful.
I SUCK at golf and I average over 250 yards with my driver.
I have done all 3, but at different points in my life. Am 6'1", ran sub 15 on college team. Could dunk 1-handed while training 80+ miles/week. In mid-20's, cut way back on the running, lifted, and played lots of hoops - could dunk 2-handed. Later in life, tried golf for a few years and had a handful of lucky hits that were in the 250 range. My rankings? The golf drives are last - I hardly care at all. The sub-15's? Great internal satisfaction, especially the first time I did it, given my focus and dedication to distance running for the 8 years before I did it. 2-handed dunking? 1-handed dunking? Any dunking? It felt GREAT every time I did it, and when I was able to do it in a pickup or league game, it felt fabulous. I never did get tired of it, I just got old and couldn't do it anymore. However, if I could choose to be able to do one of them today, I'd love to still be able to go sub-15 - more long-term lasting satisfaction, not just an immediate rush.
250 is not a big deal actually. People will say, "nice drive."
2 hand dunk-yes, but only at my peak, 1 year
250-265yds with the driver, but only a 17:30 5K, I suck!
Golf drive seems to be the easiest of the bunch
the dunk (in a game) seemed to be the biggest personal highlight vs golf shot
I am 6'2" and can't dunk a basketball but have run a 14:57 5k in the last 6 months and can routinely drive a golf ball about 260-265.
Based on statistical average though I think it is fair to say that the sub 15 minute 5k trumps the other 2 skills. Almost any decent basketball player can dunk, and there are any number of fat out of shape golfers that can smack the crap out of a golf ball.
There are only probably several hundred people annually that can break 15 for 5k.
scxc wrote:
I am actually considering taking some time to try the two-hand dunk at age 32 because at 6'3" I think this is still possible. Sub-15, nope not happening.
Do it. 31 here and about 6'2.5". I can dunk one-handed right now and it feels good. :)
Kotil wrote:
I suspect there may be someone who can do all three.
I have. Any sub-15 guy who is tall and reasonably athletic should have little problem dunking a basketball with either one or two hands, and 250 yards is a pretty solid drive for a 14-year-old.
well I've never hit a golf ball 250 yards, but I've never played golf either
BR wrote:
At 6-2, I have dunked two-handed on several occasions. In fact, 30% of our high school basketball team could. However, nobody in our school's history has ever run 14:XX...even collegiately (and my school is the home of a former Master's USATF XC Champion).
Golf is a fat man's sport. Golfer's are NOT athletes. The best golfer I have ever known was a lazy, un-athletic sack of sh**.
Golfer's what??
kartelite wrote:
I have. Any sub-15 guy who is tall and reasonably athletic should have little problem dunking a basketball with either one or two hands, and 250 yards is a pretty solid drive for a 14-year-old.
That bold statement alone convinces me you are neither a sub 15 minute 5k runner, nor someone who can dunk a basketball (with one OR two hands, as if they're equal in difficulty).
Maybe I just don't know the right sub-15 runners, but none of the guys I know have any semblance of a vertical leap. I'm talking like less than 10 inches--all of them. Running 75-100 miles per week isn't ideal training for dunking a basketball. There's also a huge difference between dunking with one hand and dunking with two. That being said, 250 yards is an average drive for anyone who can swing a club.
For the record, my 5k PR is 17:42 and I can only grab the rim, I can't dunk. I've driven a golf ball over 250 though.
I can do all of those things already... next challenge
-grew up as a caddy and was having slug fests off the tee by 14-15 that would pass the 250 yard marker on the fly.
-5000m on the track is under 15 minutes
-I am 6'2 and can jump
I'd rather have a six figure income than all of the above.
AMC wrote:
kartelite wrote:I have. Any sub-15 guy who is tall and reasonably athletic should have little problem dunking a basketball with either one or two hands, and 250 yards is a pretty solid drive for a 14-year-old.
That bold statement alone convinces me you are neither a sub 15 minute 5k runner, nor someone who can dunk a basketball (with one OR two hands, as if they're equal in difficulty).
Maybe I just don't know the right sub-15 runners, but none of the guys I know have any semblance of a vertical leap. I'm talking like less than 10 inches--all of them. Running 75-100 miles per week isn't ideal training for dunking a basketball. There's also a huge difference between dunking with one hand and dunking with two. That being said, 250 yards is an average drive for anyone who can swing a club.
For the record, my 5k PR is 17:42 and I can only grab the rim, I can't dunk. I've driven a golf ball over 250 though.
AMC - I've posted on here under the same screenname since June 2002, and if you really wanted to find out my name, where I went to school, and my 5k PR it wouldn't be too hard to, so I'm not sure why I would lie about that.
I'm 6'3 and have hurdled a 5'6 high jump bar (in a meet), so I don't know what that puts my vertical at but if you do the math I think you'd agree it's well over 10 inches. I wasn't "just barely" able to dunk either, so I find your skepticism that I'd be able to do it all a bit baffling.
And for who's "lying" here, or at least exhibiting hyperbole, I really doubt that "none" of the guys you referred to could muster a vertical of 10 inches and if you're actual asserting that you're definitely losing credibility in my book.
This isn't quite it, but I ran sub 15, can still at 50ish can drive the golfball 250+ and as a highschool student at 5'7" could dunk a volleyball...my hands wern't big enough to grip a basketball. I woud say running sub 15 is the greater of the three.
Sub 15 in 7th year of running as a junior in college - this took a lot of work and was very satisfying. Beat my coach in that race, who'd placed 4th in the Olympic trials twice but was slowing down by then.
250 yard drive... easy, and I hate golf. My father in law is a big golfer and taught me how to do that in 10 minutes.
2 handed dunk... maybe with a trampoline, but otherwise no chance.
This is funny stuff. I'm 46 years old and have a 5k PR of 14:49 run in my late 20s. In my teens and ealry 20s I played a fair amount of intramural and pick up basketball. I'm 5'8" but loved to play down low and rebound. At my peak I could occasionally touch the rim, but only with one hand. Used to dream about what it would be like to dunk with authority...In the last 15 years have played golf a bit. I stink, but it is fun and even with my height and weight (140) I can occasionally hit a drive out to 250 yards. So I guess the obvious answer would be to dunk, but really I'd rather run sub 15. My masters PR is 15:31.
NESCACalum wrote:
This is awful.
I SUCK at golf and I average over 250 yards with my driver.
AVERAGE over 250. Maybe, I doubt it. And I can drive the ball over 250 on any day. But average?
cheap seats wrote:
NESCACalum wrote:This is awful.
I SUCK at golf and I average over 250 yards with my driver.
AVERAGE over 250. Maybe, I doubt it. And I can drive the ball over 250 on any day. But average?
250 just isn't that far at all, especially if you're at altitude and/or on a firm course. Plenty of decent guys that hang around scratch can consistently hit a 3-iron or 5-wood that far without much trouble.
250 just isn't getting to the point where it requires special athletic ability or coordination. A good arc and a solid turn back and through will get you to 250 no problem. Somewhere between 280-300 seems to be where things get tougher, as I've seen plenty of good, athletic swings that hit the ball 270-280 but not further.
You fools should know better than to try and do a dunk and drive.
Sub 15 FTW.