Jump O Death

The new world record is 2.30 meters or approximately seven feet six inches. Do you suppose, realizing of course the significance/relevance to anything of a Guinness world record, that it was measured from where his back feet left and his front feet landed? If it is a five foot long animal, would that make it let's say a jump of 2'6"? Give or take a few inches. A low shot from the front gives an interesting illusion, doesn't it. But it doesn't hid the stomach.