By attending the 5th Annual Canadian Flight Games: High School All-Star Basketball Challenge

Taking place at Ryerson University from 6 to 10 pm

Featuring:
- Elite High School All-star Game
- Rising Stars High School All-star Game
- Trey Ball (3 point) Competition
- Speed Obstacle Course
- & Lastly The King of the Rim Slam Dunk Competition

When :
July 29th, 2010 (a.k.a Caribana Thursday)
6:00pm to 10:00pm

Where:
Ryerson University
West Kerr Hall Upper Gymnasium
43 Gerrard Street East (at Yonge St) on Ryerson University Campus

Hosted by:
Actor Shawn “Singlefoot” Singleton

Who:
Canada’s finest high school basketball players all in one gym

Cost:
Adults: $12, $10 with canned food good, youth under 10: $7, $5 with canned food good

For more information contact info@flightgames.ca or (905)497-7005

Calling all students across the city:

We can all make a difference together, bring a non-perishable item and contribute to our food drive for the Covenant House. In addition portion of the proceeds from this event will go towards this amazing organization.

Come see Canada’s basketball future before they go to the US

Past participants include:

Corey Joseph
(The first Canadian to ever play within the All-American High School All-Star Games) going to Texas University

Tristan Thompson
( The first Canadian to ever play within the All-American High School All-Star Games) going to Texas University

Jevohn Sheppard
Played at Michigan University

John Flynn
Starting point Guard for the Minnesota Timberwolves

& Many More Division 1 Athletes.

To view the 2010 Canadian Flight Games commercial click HERE

Justin Darlington – a.k.a. “Jus Fly” – is used to making great leaps on the basketball court.

The question is whether the 20-year-old slam-dunking wizard from Ajax can make an even greater leap – becoming Canada’s superstar high jumper.

And Daniel St-Hilaire, an extremely passionate, if not a quirky, veteran coach from Montreal, is convinced he can.

St-Hilaire’s scouting methods aren’t exactly conventional. It started on the Internet when he punched “slam dunk basketball” into Google. Among other things, he came across hundreds of videos of the 6-foot-4 Darlington in action.

“He was like a lost jewel,” said St-Hilaire, who once coached Canadian sprint star Bruny Surin.

What he saw left him awestruck: A kid who could do a cartwheel on the court and dunk in one fluid motion. But, even more impressive, Darlington could get his head above the rim when he took flight.

“My mouth opened for five minutes and my eyes went big and I just froze,” said St-Hilaire. “I kept playing the video and going in slow motion and freezing it where his head went above the rim. I thought `I never saw a guy jump that high.’

“And I said to myself `Wow, I wonder if this guy can do high jump.’ I became a headhunter. I was like `Where could I meet that guy?’”

It turned out St-Hilaire didn’t have to go all that far. He located Darlington on Facebook and found out he was from Ajax. They met for two hours at Pearson International Airport when St-Hilaire was flying home from a track meet in Saskatoon in February.

It turns out that man cannot live off dunking alone. Darlington has travelled throughout Europe and is currently travelling in Shanghai with Team Flight Brothers, a sort of Harlem Globetrotters of the dunking world, but there isn’t a huge amount of money to be made.

“He had no incentive, no target,” said St-Hilaire. “I said `Here’s your target – 2012 (London Olympics). Jump for Canada, make it big and your life will change. Because now you’re recognized as one of the best dunkers, but who cares, nobody knows you.’”

At the end of their airport meeting, St-Hilaire said Darlington had only one question for him: “When do we start, coach?”

The education of Darlington as a high jumper has begun, partly under St-Hilaire in Montreal and also here in Toronto under Gary Lubin, who developed Brampton’s Mark Boswell, a two-time world championship medallist. They plan to share the coaching duties.

This has all been a whirlwind for Darlington.

“I wasn’t even thinking about the Olympics a year ago,” he told The Gazette in Montreal recently. “I was hoping that maybe they would make dunking an Olympic sport.”

Darlington is planning to enrol at McGill University for September – his mom, Ann-Marie, wants him to put emphasis on his studies – and train in Montreal under St-Hilaire. His regimen will include two dunking workouts per week so he can maintain that skill.

It’s a talent he discovered only two years ago. He never really stood out playing basketball at J. Clark Richardson Collegiate in Ajax, but entered a dunk contest in his last year and wowed everyone with his high-flying skills. Things have taken off since then.

“It sort of snuck up on us,” said Ann-Marie Darlington, who was a high jumper in high school. “He was trying to match what the others could do in the gym and he realized he was above most of the guys. It was amazing.”

Adds St-Hilaire: “He’s a born leaper. The legs are like a mutation.”

Darlington has a wide array of videos on You Tube under his nickname “Jus Fly,” including some with more than 200,000 views and comments like “That last dunk was absolutely sick!”

Former world hurdles champion Perdita Felicien agrees it will be a neat story if Darlington can pull it off, but adds it won’t be easy in such a technical event.

“You can have the raw goods, but to have the discipline to study the event and the sport and to be great that way – that’s kind of different,” Felicien said. “That’s probably the hardest part of it.”

St-Hilaire said the key will be teaching Darlington the right technique so that he can develop into a true high jumper and not just a leaper.

St-Hilaire notes Darlington has already jumped 2.01 metres after six technical workouts – equal to the height achieved by the sixth-place finisher at last year’s Olympic trials in Windsor (the world record is 2.45 metres.) The coach believes he can get up to 2.10 or 2.20 metres this summer.

St-Hilaire already has a golden glint in his eyes as he thinks toward the 2012 London Olympics. He points to Donald Thomas of the Bahamas, who won at the 2007 world championships, less than two years after switching to track from basketball.

“I feel Justin has more potential,” said St-Hilaire.

Toronto Star

The event will be rescheduled and we will give you the details as soon as we receive them.

Saturday March 14th, 2009

Pine Ridge Secondary School

2155 Liverpool Rd., Pickering

We have combined the top High School, College, University and Streetball Players on 4 All Star teams.

Event includes:

Women’s All Star Game, Slam Dunk Competition, Men’s All Star Game

Halftime Entertainment by:

Andreena Millz, Syndikitz Army, Twisted Anlkes

Hosted by:

Future Da Prince

Tons of prizes and giveaways including 20″Rims courtest of Supreme Auto Group

Special Guests:
The Ghost (Of The AND 1 Mixtape Tour)

Jus Fly Ranked the top 3 dunker in the world

For Tickets or More Information: 647-2155178 or contact Chosen1_ent@hotmail.com

Toronto’s own Kardinal Offishall also shut it down with a full concert at the end.

Go get “Not 4 Sale” – in stores now!

Schedule (all times ET)

4:00 pm – Inner City Surfers
5:30 pm – The Trews
7:00 pm – Live broadcast begins on The Score
8:30 pm – Kardinal Offishall
10:00pm – Beer garden closes

Celebrities:

Jermaine O’Neal – Toronto Raptors
CM Punk – WWE Superstar
Wendel Clark – Hockey Legend
Heath Herring – UFC Fighter
Natalya – WWE Diva
Donovan Bailey – Olympic gold medalist
Gavin Smith – 2006 WPT Champion

For more info, and a complete schedule, check out www.thescore.com/events

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Exhibition Place

Tuesday Jul 22, 2008 11:59PM EST

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Friday July 25, 2008, 2-7 pm

The Air Canada Centre, Galleria (Gate 1)

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