
A very important question, and one I can easily illustrate with the help of Mr Jean-Claude Van Damme, He popped by to help me with a to-scale experiment.
Firstly I had to measure the distance he can perform the splits, turns out this is about 70 inches from foot to foot depending on how split the action star cares to be.
That's about 1.75 meters which Ironically is about the average height of a man.
In this image we see good old JC doing what...