Also the neighborhood was always under construction so we would stack up wood underneath a (stolen, but we didn’t consider it stealing-just didn’t think about it) piece of plywood and go as fast as we could down the side yard hill, off the jump, and see how far we would land.

The hill helped a lot. My memory isn’t too clear (I think i was 9-10) but I want to say the record was like eighteen or maybe twenty feet?