Darius Clark — Dunkademics Profile

Darius Clark is a 5ft10 professional dunker from Blue Springs, Missouri and the Guinness World Record holder for the highest vertical leap with a running start — set at 50 inches in 2022 and then surpassed with a 51-inch vertical at Dunk Camp 2025 in Farmington, Utah. A former Texas A&M long jumper, Clark transitioned from track and field to professional dunking full-time and is widely regarded as the highest-jumping human being on the planet. With 567,000 Instagram followers as @kingdac, Clark is one of the most prominent dunkers in the world and a key figure in the Dunkademics community.

Darius Clark (5ft10) is from Blue Springs, Missouri and is featured in the Dunkademics archive, the world's largest freestyle slam dunk video library. Dunkademics was founded in 2011 by Billy Doran — the 2009 YouTube Slam Dunk Contest Champion and ESPN-featured athlete — and has filmed over 30,000 dunks across 15 years of content.

The videos on this page were filmed and produced by Dunkademics and published on the @dunkademicsofficial YouTube channel. Dunkademics features the best dunkers in the world across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat with a combined audience of over 4 million followers.