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pause before lift off, and his loading shoes pretty much deform like.... rubber.
like...he is standing on the side of his shoes....
talk about.. FORCE he generated....
If i am not mistaken.. the first loading foot load and jump, the 2nd foot is the STOPPing and redirecting force from hori to vertical ....
with that said... his first loading foot is already... Turned and sort of stopping already...
i'd refer to it more like range of motion. i mean it's not really his shoe deforming, it's more of his ankle everting. it's definitely some extreme eversion, crazy.
ZION deforms his shoe. haven't really seen people deform their shoe like ZION, lmao.
overanalysis would be, everything you said AND saying something like "if only my ankle did that in the plant, i'd jump much higher. i'm going to try and consciously roll my ankle in the plant to try and jump like that. ill stop doing normal sane/sensible stuff, and do ankle roll drills for weeks, and then slowly build back up into a full run up, making sure my ankle rolls with each successive step added".. or even worse, not doing it yourself, but trying to convince others they should do it. "you can't jump high because your ankle deformation isn't like this guy's <insert video here>".
anyway.. over analysis again.. but his deformed shoes really got my attention.
it's cool to analyze.
IMHO, over analysis is observing something & then thinking the way you do things is inadequate or incorrect, and then trying to implement the fairy tale observation.
it's fun & cool to point out things like this.. we've done it on the forum tons of times.
It'd be like analyzing Nadal's forehand, Federer's etc. It's cool to analyze the differences etc. But you don't see someone like Federer trying to acquire Nadal's forehand and visa versa etc.. Those guys have their form at this point. They may make some very small changes, but they aren't looking at another player and trying to mimic their technique/form etc. Instead, they mostly try and make their strengths stronger, and improve weaknesses, and play a ton of tennis. They rarely make huge sweeping changes. I can't think of anyone who has done that.
If elite athletes thought of their form/technique/abilities as inadequate, you'd see massive transformations more often - instead, you rarely find any. In basketball, you might say someone developed a jump shot. Usually it's more likely that they developed the confidence to shoot jump shots, not that they developed one so late in their life.
If developing such skills were easy, you'd see someone like Shaq learn to shoot free throws.. or anyone for that matter, who struggles.
I'm just throwing out some skill-sport examples, because you'd think learning to shoot a freethrow would be easy, since the athlete has complete control over the movement. It's not.
Going back to jumping, running, sprinting, etc: there's so many different styles that express similar elite performance.
edit: my "writing" is awful tonight. hope that makes sense.
pc!
