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alright, alright, i bought the damn under armour ball.
didn't get much exercise this weekend apart from hauling lots of booze and dancing. last night was just spent. i did play tennis with my dad on sunday night, which was nice. i can consistently whip him now. back in the gym tonight and for a few more days before beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeach.
Happy B'day man, your jumps are looking very good.
Is self lobbing for a sl jump just as easy for you?
i think so. tbh it might be a little easier because of the horizontal distance I get with single leg jumping. When starting to train SLRVJ in late 2011/2012, even in my first few sessions I literally caught some lobs around the outside of the paint. That is very difficult for me to do with DLRVJ because I just don't have that kind of horizontal distance with double leg jumping.
so ya, just as easy or slightly easier.
pc!
Wow. Ok in reading this and your post to scooby I realized one reason the self lob is so important...
It's for training. My most impressive dunks are done off one or two steps. And it's because my one or two step vertical with ball and without ball is probably about 41/38 on my best day... I can get great dunk practice and jump work in at the same time...
But as Raptor pointed out I jump much lower with ball than without ball... At a full run up my vertical with and without ball has peaked out at about 45/39 and this 6 inch difference is pretty appalling.... That's why for me to get ME jump training and dunk practice I have to get in a bunch of head to rim jump attempts after my dunks... With the self lob you can do a dunk session and get practice at dunks and ME jumping all at the same time... Really seems like a big advantage to decrease volume and still get training...
Those clips would be much less exciting.. lobs introduce some major variability - where we catch it, how high we catch it, if we can pull off a max effort jump in the process, etc.. So really, lobbing is so important.Of course for me lob practice right now involves mostly not even jumping but when I return to dunking I promise an earnest attempt at learning to lob...
Happy Birthday! Congrats on another age
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I think it's more likely AI could take hits well considering he was tiny in the NBA and he got bodied up and banged up all the time but yet his resilience allowed him to play through numerous injuries. I remember seeing a graphic in the playoffs where he was playing with a whole host of injuries and still beasting. I think it was the finals series against Lakers. Will try to find it.
OMFG THAT DIVE.. amazing women's 400m final.
Aghh, I wish she hadn't fallen and won it running through....she might have got it anyway but I've seen it happen where a dive at the finish probably makes the difference.
ya after watching the replay, it looked like she didn't need to dive. when I saw it live, it looked like the dive won it for her. When Felix was coming back to (almost?) take the lead, it was nuts - i was freaking out.
Yeah... Hard to say about the dive... Personally not a fan of diving... It can win a race in hurdles or slower races - women's 400m is certainly borderline... I mean Felix is running a probably around 13 sec hundred pace at the end of the race... Between 7-8 meters a second, does diving really make a difference then? I dunno if it actually does BUT it is probably better than a mistimed lean!
Funny that Felix is brought up in a thread where the side conversation is athletic potential...
I'm sorry but her race strategy and training is terrible. Felix jogged 48.x in the semi. She is a 21.x 200m runner. With the right training she could easily go 47.9. Her coach Bobby Kersee really isn't getting the most out of her IMO. I've done a ton of training with the members of the group and his basic strategy to making athletes is to get fast athletes and make them run around and around and around the track. It's speed endurance to death. Then he gives them the same failed race strategy lashawn Merrit used - just wait and rely on the fact that you have more endurance and will be fresh in the end... Well it doesn't work in the 200 and it doesn't always work anymore in the 400m... Merritt's case is excusable cause he lost to a WR - but Felix lost to a 49.5 which is nothing for her... She waited, sized her up and looked far better finishing... But that didn't win her the race... I'm not surprised because she did hardly any speed work leading up to the olympics. What is sad is I know her coach convinced her not to double 200/400 and focus on the 400 for a guarenteed medal... How ironic that had she kept the 200 she probably wouldn't have neglected the speed work she needed to win the 400...
Consider it a request. I don't remember you ever making a lob video like that, if not I apologize.
OMFG THAT DIVE.. amazing women's 400m final.
Aghh, I wish she hadn't fallen and won it running through....she might have got it anyway but I've seen it happen where a dive at the finish probably makes the difference.
