JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================q" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?b8T)>yb'Q8LP' ֦AƘ 4)~ q 9$/PH?.T{QJq)ԁUN052 L:L>MVC{$n/,xi ӊEFJF皇Zֵ uxbN#Se<]9[/nIWR7n&+;X$e8u ٔ5cٱPR<Ɏ]:"B>17 3TOwn hIoKwbA,8$s#uQ ֭~DI}*b iS@m7^pߵ02I4BsEHTLeu9^=0O# About 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 Therefore, most of the plaintiff s original arguments were no longer valid.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 $15,000 minus his expenses and <br>taxes---hardly worth a year s work.) What lessons are there to learn from this boy s misfortune? If our intent is to save a few dollars by using inferior equipment, we risk putting lives and careers in jeopardy. The goal of helping our students become bigger, faster and stronger is possible only when we remember to put safety first.sS9/ٌ:88(S)9w)s5Ŝv\}ͤߥ+BōGO1)ӘCS^o_f 8S÷*}>YauVQ#xxڥƚFܥaNc5vk X2L qOý=$rhkC~{ wy5<$1䚀*1wvF ;9{V.m#e p@^_)BH# l,:Vkvs ~]JMi