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Person in charge saw my video and pm'd asking if they could use a part of it for a video. Company's supposed to be promoting dedication to health and fitness, so I said sure. Should have told them to put some of your sick dunk vids in there too. 

haha that's cool man! props!

the big black BB'r dude flexing his pecs didn't fit though i must say HEH

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3De4_cuBV0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3De4_cuBV0</a>

I'm in that one at :50

haha cool, nice vid, why were you in that? i mean, you know the person who did it? or someone contacted you, or what?

vid was nice man

check his short run up RVJ @ 50s... pretty high

Yall think playing asteroids will help with decision making, reation time, etc for pg's

no offense but i literally burst out with laughter when i read that...

http://www.adarq.org/forum/call-em-out/jumpusa-basketball-intelligym-brain-reaction-training-software-lol/

 

so sad..



but anyway, video games in general can help with decision making/reaction time, sure.. playing any type of video game that requires rapid decision making, reaction time, strategy, etc, can definitely help make you a bit more sharp, how much that transfers to your sport is up for debate.. just consider it a "brain stimulus", not something that will directly improve your basketball IQ/RT/decision making.

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nothing crazy but nice angle

adarq, I thought olympic lifts such as the power clean, power snatch, hang clean.... were supposed to get that strength and power transition that you get from half/quatter  squatting.

they can.. sure.. but half/quarter squatting with speed would provide more of a maximal AND explosive strength stimulus.. oly lifts by themselves, for example, will decrease your 'explosive strength deficit', ie, give you more power based on your maximal strength levels.. you're only going to snatch/clean based on your front squat ceiling..

half squats (and possibly quarter squats), that focus on speed on each rep (no matter the rep range), will lead to more maximal AND explosive strength gains, hypertrophy (due to TUT), etc.

that's one of the many reasons I don't NEED to oly... my main reason for not oly'n however, is due to form/technique/lack of interest... so, due to the fact that i don't really incorporate any "traditional" explosive strength exercises (oly's), I have to make up for it with reactive work, sprints/jumps, and speed (even w/ heavy singles) during my squatting.

You stated that you must first strengthen your gultes with parallel squats THEN move on to half squats...That sounds interesting to me, I will hopefully get 2.2xBW someday and maybe incorporate these half squats into the mix.

you DEEP squat though.. big diff.. i might have typo'd with what you're saying, but i said, people should incorporate HALF squats before moving on to quarters.. not parallel before moving on to half..

Another point i was curious about, do half squats only help jumping? In my mind I get the idea that only full squats will help sprinting(which I do to refresh your memory )

based on our discussion, why the hell would "only full squats help sprinting" ??????????? im so confused by that....

bottom line, half and possibly quarter improves athletic performance (vert/speed) far greater than ATG.. the end..

when you read stuff like, "ben johnson squatted 600 for 8 reps", realize it was ABOVE PARALLEL OFF A BOX................... roided but one of the fastest people to ever grace this planet, he never went deep, and charlie francis didn't give a shit.

I like the broscience!

pc

Yeah definitely. It's probably a good thing to limit your above parallel squats to later on, after you get a good strength base with full squats if you can do full squats safely though, since the more ROM and TUT, and less weight (for safety reasons) is a much better choice for beginners in my opinion. But once you have decent strength (1.5x+, maybe even 1.75x+) then you might get functional benefits from doing half squats or whatever depth you feel it's in the same ROM as your jumps, using the same stance as in a jump in terms of space between the feet etc.

depends on the build, deep squatting is anything but safe for me personally.. so your comment becomes "stick with half squats until you're ~2xbw or so, then start incorporating quarters etc".. so ya same thing basically, but deep ruins my hips and bugs my back more.. i feel very uncomfortable going below parallel even in oly shoes.. i'm lanky, long legs, short torso, the extreme opposite of an oly lifter, so.. most of us here are like that, most people interested in jumping are like that, almost all basketball players are like that.

If I wasn't weird enough already, I feel like I can full squat more easily 120 kg right now than I can half squat the same weight, because I reactively load and release better at that depth than at half squat depth. When I half squat 120 I feel my knees/quads overload, and the coupling phase is much slower than at full squat depth.

i'm pretty sure kingfish has said the same thing, or similar.. you don't get "rebound" in a half squat, sure you have leverage advantage, but you don't get any rebound.. that's a very important and beneficial aspect of half squatting.. it's a raw transition with very little "rebound effect" from the glutes/hams, ie, that big stretch going down or hitting glutes near calfs and just rebounding up.. so ya it makes sense, people who talk shit on half, who go deep, often find half squatting pretty challenging and then they act all surprised.


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