JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================uK" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?fF[sz6-cK3nNx RIll ;+Y4RZ_CVIT|bg>k+?G}q!j5U.#2OJ)-zsE۲#[Vu_ Gju <wǭ$^/'9b1c$Y 7NjŇ巷[xt95!BKT(HNTh>TaLՒ4H*3'_iq]Fo*hAޚe}7kwkMuxk>1ʑ I gYO 2Cȏ+ZMiN+ȆC4HLko[[y:4UOZHY 9Cҩ.洢ڙOou#*SIX'qZƚyt@%A W;w$Fdv#8Z_63,b ge!1Zt";shیs֞-|4QHOq /UP;K-Prestigious Division I football school and a leader in several national physical education organizations. He backed up the plaintiff s claim that plyo boxes should not be used, that 19-inch boxes were too high and that the boy was a victim of peer pressure. <br> About a year after the accident, the case made it to court. The plaintiff s  expert witness ended up being discredited when it was discovered that he had never coached a plyometric box jump workout and had never seen one in person or on video. Furthermore, the jury got to see the BFS plyometric video in which untrained eighth-grade boys jump on top of a 32-inch box. The jury also saw our women s video featuring a 13-year-old girl leapfrogging over our BFS 20-inch boxes with ease. Therefore, most of the plaintiff s original arguments were no longer valid. However, this attorney was very sharp and kept stressing the fact that the school should not have been using homemade boxes; he conjectured that the extra width and length of the school s boxes were largely responsible for the injury.<br> At the conclusion of the trial, the jury s decision was split; the boy was awarded $30,000 plus medical expenses. (The boy s attorney received about $15,000 minus his expenses and <br>taxes---hardly worth a year s work.) What lessons are there to learn from this boy s misfortune? If our intent is to save a few dollars by using inferior equipment, we risk putting lives and careers in jeopardy. The goal of helping our students become bigger, faster