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Hi Guys

Amongst all this requests for coaches who sell programs not having any videos talk I thought I would make a quick video and post it.





HTML EDIT ^^

I have a standing reach of 227cm and would say I got probably 5cm of my fingers above the rim so that is a RVJ of about 78cm or 31inches. In the big scheme of peoples jumping ability that isn't that great but here is a few things to consider

1) I am nearly 36 years old
2) I have not trained my vertical jump in nearly 2 years at all
3) I have chronic tendonitis in my right knee so max effort jumping like this actually really, really hurts (and it shows in my lousy jumping form, poor run up etc).
4) As a result of 3 I only ever do max effort jumping like this about once every 6 months when the thought occurs to me along the lines of - "I wonder if I can still grab the rim"

These jumps are well down on my max jumping days but given the above points, and also the fact I am now 8kg heavier than I was when I just trained for jumping, I am actually reasonably happy with those jumps.

Anyway, feel free to laugh, call me out, argue about freaky elbows, low rims, dodgy camera angles or whatever else you feel like. I just thought I would post a vid for you to see.

Cheers

Jack

Andrew if you know how to fix my post so that the video embeds properly go right ahead and fix that up would you.

done!

nice post man, great to see a jumping vid from you.. the run up doesn't look near as bad as you think it does, if you practiced more sure, it would be much more efficient, but you can see the base efficiency is there.. all that's missing is more power, other than that, the runup + jump looked good imo.

nice post man!

Thanks for the kind words guys.

My run up and plant used to be much different. It felt much much smoother when I did a lot of it. What you see in the video is someone who has done little to no max effort jumps in a long time. With the sore knees I also feel a bit nervous running in now because I know I am going to pay for it the rest of the day.

I also really feel the extra upper body weight and loss of strength. In addition to my extra 8kg in weight my squat 1Rm would be down about 25kg and my deadlift down probably 40kg from before my knees called it a day on me.

Still not the same as a dunk video but it will have to do for you.

Cheers

Jack

Great stuff Jack!

BTW , 305cm ( 10' ) + 5cm above = 310cm touch. With 227cm reach , you need 83cm ( 32,6'' ).

So unless the rim is not 10' , congrats on your new     

damn, nice job man. the first jump in particular looked really powerful.

Haha, it's cool to see someone jumping at MSAC. What night/s do you play?

Edit: Nice jumps BTW

Quote from: acole14 on March 08, 2012, 06:56:50 pm

Haha, it's cool to see someone jumping at MSAC. What night/s do you play?

Edit: Nice jumps BTW

Thanks for that Acole!

The original video from 2010 was shot at MSAC but the one from yesterday was at Boorondara Sports Complex (BSC) in Balwyn. I play a half court pick up game Tuesday mornings at MSAC with a bunch of friends (old guys basketball) and I play A-Grade on Thursday nights at Balwyn. I was feeling quite good after my game last night so I thought I would test out the legs.

  Haha so it is, been ages since I've been to Boroondara. Nice, you must have some skills to play A-grade there,   heard it's pretty competitive.