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I have no problem with the subforum nor did I mention it. It's not my cup of tea but it's fairly entertaining for the most part. My main issue was with the increase of personal attacks, etc in the journals/sports performance areas of the site. I'd rather not have to scroll through that garbage although I may want to indulge in decimating a post or two if I'm feeling bored someday. I was getting a "bodybuilding" vibe with the new rep system and some recent posts.

Just dropping some input for the site. End of the day its only jumping and the internetz so it's all good in the hood high fly-ya.

i loled @ the atg/quad nation section, hilarious.

Side note, I know you wont change it but I also wish you would do the updating part on your first page and just post your daily workouts on these other pages. Basically the same exact thing but I dont have to strain my index finger swiping down 12309436 times on my iphone which is where I usually check the journals from.

Well its going to be an interesting experiment seeing if I get any gains from switching my plant. Another really weird thing is that whenever I try doing reverse/360 dunks I have always done a RL plant :S Whatever no point over analyzing it anymore.

PS. My therapist commented on how much more developed my right forearm is. No idea why.

 

Pushing a Heavy object - Right foot forward
2-foot jump plant - LR
Kick - Left leg
Starting sprint stance - Right leg forward
1 foot jumping leg - Right leg

I'm right handed and jump much higher off my right leg than my left. Also, my handle (such as it is) is much better with my left hand than with my right. When I do jumps at the rim I reach with my left hand, because my shoulder is higher on that side so I can reach higher.

The differences are huge, too. I was never much of a soccer player but when I'm messing around left leg is a lot more powerful and a LOT more dexterous (see what I did there?) than right. Even popping a basketball up to myself off the ground, left foot is automatic. Dribbling with my left hand is MUCH more comfortable than with my right hand, although admittedly I suck at both. LR plant is probably twice as good as RL plant, shit just gets awkward when I try to go RL. Sprint isn't quite so much of a difference in terms of which foot starts forward, but in a race I would definitely do right foot forward.

Interesting thread.

As far as the dribbling goes, Im exactly the same. If given the opportunity I will drive with my left hand + go left 100% of the time. Also breakaway/wide open layups I will go off my right foot and lay it up with my left hand 100% of the time.  

Yea I know it's weird. I grew up playing soccer - almost all right leg, didn't play basketball at all till I was 18 (22 now), and never attempted jumping till I was 19 so those things could be contributing factors.

Raptor - another guy is jrue holiday. He definitely favors his right leg by a mile but yea not too many.

That always seems to be the case, both of you guys and everyone Iv talked to that plant LR have a stronger left leg.

While I have a stronger right leg to the point where I jump 2-3" higher SLVJ then I do off my left, and I almost never practice jumping off my right. It seems as if making the switch to a RL plant might be an option worth exploring for myself. 

From personal experience I have never seen anyone gain inches by changing their technique and I have seen quite afew people try. IMO even if you have sub-par coordination, once you get past the total beginner stage your body will automatically take in consideration your strengths/weaknesses and in return make you perform the best possible jump to maximize your strengths.

The only real use I see in over analyzing someones jump technique is to find out their weaknesses (ie. posture, flexibility, inhibited muscles, and more commonly strength/reactive ability) so they can go out and work on it (ie. stretching, mobility work, lifting, plyometrics).

Although he does give some decent information in the videos some of what Linkenauger is saying is complete garbage. There is a reason why someone is slowing down before takeoff. There is a reason why someone is collapsing during takeoff. There is a reason why someone is barely accelerating in their approach. There is a reason why someones GCT is too high, etc etc. In most cases try to "fix" this and perform it the "right" way and someone will be jumping even lower.

The only credit I give him is for being able to analyze the videos and point out what could be better, thats it. To turn around and say "oh your approach is too slow, go faster", "your knee collapses, dont collapse", "you are sinking your hips too low, less bend" and then follow it up by (real example from one of his videos) "If you dont decelerate before takeoff Im sure you will gain ~4 inches" its complete scammer talk. The jumpers problems and his analysis are obvious as hell, I mean what he does after and the promises he makes are complete bullshit.

What has happened in all cases I have seen ie. someone approaches too slow, if they increase their approach speed to "optimal" levels they are not strong enough to handle the force which will lead to increased GCT or horizontal jumping, and so on and so forth.

Best thing you can do is to have a great workout plan, do all the right things in the weightroom/kitchen/court and your body will know what to do better then what anyone could tell you online in a couple of sentences.

Also one of his biggest bullshit stories that probably gets a ton of people is that "day" where he woke up with the right technique and added ~7 inches or whatever to his high jump. Technique is much more important in high jumping and needs to be taught. High jumping, especially for beginners which is what he was, is obviously not all about how high you jump. He kind of puts on as if he gained 7 inches on his vertical... His vertical could have easily stayed exactly the same as Im sure it did, and he still could have gained 7 inches on his high jump by improving his technique (which Im sure 95% of everyone here or his customers couldnt care less about).

Anyways those are just my opinions, take them with a grain of salt.

Awesome.