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if i had a 98" reach i could almost get my elbow in the rim.
just don't do what i did last winter and accidentally wear it into a secure government building. foolproof recipe for embarrassment.
so that means it limits the use .. but one hand movements (dunks, blocks etc) shud be ok. not that i cud wear it in a pickup game tho. sorry, insta is annoying, i cant upload directly from pc,cant be bothered with all of that, will just use youtube..
edit, so this is what i put up in my log
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4WgRtg0veg
and this one was done a week later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnrfyIKbyAU
also have the unweighted dunks after that;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0HDbet8omU
i did heavier than that the following weeks but i dont have that on tape. a nd the last set of weighted dunks i have on tape (days before the comp) but it's full HD and the vid is like 1-4gb .. will take too long to upload unless i edit but i dont have any decent editor available (linux is a ghetto).
Hmm... Well I guess dunks are sort of a hard measure to use. You seem to be pretty proficient at it. The most important question is... How high are you jumping?
What it looks like is with 95kg your hardly getting up. To my eye it looks like about 24 inches off the ground. Going back to your natural weight of 75kg you would expect a 1.25 boost or a 32 inch jump - maybe you jumping more like 33 in the dunks...
That's what it looks like... What's the actual height? I mean if I recall you only like 6'2 but honestly the air space in the videos looks off... I mean I don't know guys in that height range that can dunk like you, like the stretch style. I guess it just requires you to measure arm length and actual vertical...
yep by comp time i was really profficient. i cud literally jump out of bed cold and do a submax dunk without even trying. i have long thought my dunking is overspecialised, i cud prob benefit from trying different things to mix things up like approaching from the other side of the rim, changing plant, doing SL dunks etc. Just to improve my athleticism. My reach is 98" barefoot. it goes up a little with shoes. but ya im not jumping high on weighted dunks above 85kg. around 95-100kg im llucky to land one, most are misses. but. i think i get more air and more normal form when using about +10kg than i do with more than that. my new weight vest (i left the old one in brisbane after the comp) only goes up to 10kg so that shud keep my addiction to adidng weight in check
Ah ok. That makes more sense. Your reach in shoes has you only about 20" away from the rim. And with your palming ability your really able to dunk without getting up... I agree that your probably right that being 100kg is far too heavy for you but I wouldn't be surprised if 10kg is overkill as well... Remember the similarity between running and sprinting that separates elite from the rest - accelerating a light body... Best results are around 10% of bw for most people and you are lighter than 100kg.
At your level I would just use the formula I mentioned. Vbw/bw * vested_jump = predicted-jump. Use the most weight you can until the drop off in predicted jump falls. Like if your max jump is 35" and your predicted jump w 5kg,6kg,7kg,8kg is 32,33,33,31... You would want 7kg and train to push this up past 35".
If you are already at the point where a heavy vested jump puts your predicted jump far past your actual jump.... the DO NOT use the weight vest! Your are so far to the right on the strength curve that you are wasting your time with vested jumps. This is where I assumed you were but there's a good chance I'm wrong in light of your reach being as high as it is... But if you are here you really don't need to build this motor - making it more powerful when you already don't know how use it will set you back in the long term... I had a good discussion about this with one of the elite coaches and he talked about how rare this is (most sprinters and jumpers are weak and extremely efficient) but how if you find someone here you need to get them to harness their power asap.
sorry, insta is annoying, i cant upload directly from pc,cant be bothered with all of that, will just use youtube..
edit, so this is what i put up in my log
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4WgRtg0veg
and this one was done a week later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnrfyIKbyAU
also have the unweighted dunks after that;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0HDbet8omU
i did heavier than that the following weeks but i dont have that on tape. a nd the last set of weighted dunks i have on tape (days before the comp) but it's full HD and the vid is like 1-4gb .. will take too long to upload unless i edit but i dont have any decent editor available (linux is a ghetto).
Hmm... Well I guess dunks are sort of a hard measure to use. You seem to be pretty proficient at it. The most important question is... How high are you jumping?
What it looks like is with 95kg your hardly getting up. To my eye it looks like about 24 inches off the ground. Going back to your natural weight of 75kg you would expect a 1.25 boost or a 32 inch jump - maybe you jumping more like 33 in the dunks...
That's what it looks like... What's the actual height? I mean if I recall you only like 6'2 but honestly the air space in the videos looks off... I mean I don't know guys in that height range that can dunk like you, like the stretch style. I guess it just requires you to measure arm length and actual vertical...
Wow, those dunks just look too easy for you, love the tomahawk dunk, without the weighted vest on first link.
was too busy making up for a lack of fitness by tryna do last minute conditioning lol. i did weighted sprint intervals and loads of treadmill running etc. was not good for athleticism. plus in this shoe thread, in that vid im wearing my oversized heavy shoes (for training effect). they fell apart from the weighted dunking tho .. so i cant use that strategy anymore. just as well, i dont think it was worthwhile..
That workout was done Friday night. Felt great. But then , late afternoon of Saturday, my lower back got wrecked. It is Monday morning now and it finally faints, but it was not good. Dunno what happened, i videotaped my half squats and they were pretty legit, i don't goodmorning at all. Maybe one thing i do wrong is that i do them very explosively, getting on my toes at the end, the bar practically leaves my shoulders, so as i go back down i guess the bar actually does a ~ 5'' free fall, then my spine has to absorb all of that ( oly shoes , locked knees from hyperextension ). SO, long story short, i should stop doing them explosively, the good things with halves come from the supramax load, if i want to do explosive lifting i should do it with less weight, as prescribed.
