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Never tried it but i was recently trying to find -once again- the best shoes for jumping  and i saw this mentioned.
Nice to see some study to back it up, good job! 

Defranco endorses the waffle racers btw. Adarq was so ahead of his time!

I have always played ball in running shoes, forever. Basketball shoes = 1 leg jumps of ~24 inches. Running shoes = 1 leg jumps of ~36 inches.

Not to mention the ability to actually move around on defense in a springy, controlled manner. Basketball shoes COMPLETELY disconnect my feet from the ground - I don't feel the ground at all. That's a very big no-no.

The only downsides of the running shoes I have EVER found for playing in them was aggressive lateral movement - sometimes you plant so aggressively that the sole deforms and bends and you just can't do anything about it.

But if you were to make the same move and rigid-ass basketball shoes (with very little exceptions, Kobe 6 being the best shoe ever for both jumping and playing) - those forces that deformed the sole would propagate themselves onto your bones and joints. Trust me, I've been there.

So unless you're a very strong guy that has muscles to take care of all these forces, I'd rather have the shoe sole deform than have these forces infringe upon my joints and bones.

Well I don't think I could ever play ball with track shoes, but they certainly helped me hit PRs on running vertical jumps.

2-foot jumper here. i can't even imagine jumping in basketball shoes. way too heavy, way too stiff.

I never get why people plant sideways... honestly, if you're a strength jumper you should plant forward as in a squat more or less, or deadlift.

I think people plant sideways to load a leg more than the other (the first planted leg loads a lot more, and the 2nd leg "blocks" the jump).

Well there are a ton of factors at work. One of them is ankle dorsiflexion - you'll tend to jump better using the leg that has the better ankle dorsiflexion. Also, you'll tend to plant first the leg that has better quad strength/that you can pistol squat better onto. It also matters what kind of "hip control" you have on it, how well your body can extend using your arm (you can reach backwards with your right arm planting RL, but planting LR you just go "up" with your right arm which is a different movement).

And so on and so forth.

Personally, I think it's "natural" for right arm people to jump LR simply because that's the natural move going into a shot, and you also stay LR in the defensive stance position so that you can reach with your right arm forward.

So, assuming you're not already pre-programmed, being a right handed guy from an early age should in principle make you a LR planter.

There are plenty of good fluid athletic right handed basketball players who jump RL.  The reason ChrisM jumps RL is probably cause his right leg is stronger.  The reason he jumps higher off his L in the 1 foot jump is because of years of basketball playing where jumping off his left leg became very coordinated compared to his right leg (think lay ups for a right handed player).  Most right handed people will have stronger right legs, but the coordination aspect of SL jumping plays a huge role in which they jump higher off unilaterally.

I am right handed and whenever I do any weight room exercise, my right leg always wants to take over cause it's stronger.  However, my L SLRVJ is like 10" higher than my R SLRVJ lol