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Let me just clear things up for everyone.

Quote actually isn't made up; it was taken by Pavel Tsatsouline in a magazine publication.

This actually does have an effect on jumping and in TDub's plant, but not as SV understands it.  Try this simple exercise to understand what Pavel was talking about.  Take your right foot and place it against something with a corner/wedge.  It could be a dresser,table leg, wall, pole etc.  Now keep the gap between your big toe and the rest of your toes between the wedge.  Generate force downwards(maximally or sub maximally is irrelevant) and notice the tension in the lower leg complex.  Now try it again but this time induce a clockwise twist and notice you are creating more tension.  TDub's ability to do this is aided greatly by the fact that he is HEAVILY pigeon-toed.  This "elastic winding" is especially prominent in athlete's whose knees come close together in a bilateral plant.

What SV seems to confuse as elastic winding is TDub's ability to convert horizontal momentum into vertical momentum.  He twists his body in such a way that he may approach the rim at nearly full speed without losing momentum into his plant.  This has nothing to do with elastic winding and is simply instinctual preservation of momentum.

Quote from: adarqui on August 22, 2011, 03:26:06 pm

http://i.imgur.com/FS98N.jpg

How old is he?!

Also, as for extra glute/ham work for single leg jumpers to supplement squats, what's your favorite exercise?

BSS?  GHR?  Dead Lift?

Thanks.

Nice looking RL plant!

8! lol that is alot.

i did hear that drinking coffee can help increase athletic performance
i find it really bitter to drink i run out of chocolate and i still have not finished my cup of coffee yet.

will try.

Quote from: adarqui on August 21, 2011, 02:09:33 pm

Quote from: seifullaah73 on August 21, 2011, 02:02:10 pm

Thanks for the tip man. 

also for my most important jump sessions, i load up on caffeine ~1hour prior... helps alot if you only do it ~2-3x/week... gotta ease into it though, i use 4tspn coffee, started off with 1 a year ago.

i need to try like 8 next weekend wtf.. lmfao

pC

THe first post in this thread contains the video.



In this video TDUb an RL planter plants his feet at a + angle (negative angle would mean counterclockwise), to the rim, but after the jump his feet, hips, neck, spine and body rotate -


I can't fathom jumping like that, nor do I think if I started jumping like that I'd have a 50inch vert, but I have rotated coutnerclockwise with my RL plants before but didn't jump much higher than regular rotation.

Maybe he rotates counter clockwise because he dunks right handed, similarly an LR left handed dunker might roatet clockwise?

Anyway, his feet go from 90 degrees + of rim, to 0 degrees of rim from plant to dunk...