Balance, flexibility, strength and vertical jump were tested, while the athletes wore either a Power Balance band or a generic rubber band.

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The Blue Devils measure conditioning with the fitness test from the NBA combine: 185-pound bench press, vertical jump, three-quarter-court sprint and lane-agility run.

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He died on the so-called High Ultimate jump, 5, 000ft (1, 524m) up a near vertical cliff.

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The real head-scratcher is the Daish? 2.0 Dual PC (shown after the jump), which as the name implies, sports a duo of networked PCs within a single vertical chassis.

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