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I've had the most incredible dream... I've never heard anything similar yet, so to me it's a "wonder" of a dream if you will:

First off, I remember I was playing basketball on an outside court and the coach of that "streetball team" was Stan Van Gundy. It's interesting because I went to bed thinking about how Orlando is going to play Indiana that night (middle of the night here in Romania), and SVG is the coach of the Magic. Then I remember I needed another basketball and met with Miles from here, who was going to the gym at that location and he gave me one ball that was kind of slippery and then another one that was more "streetball" and with better grip.

THEN - this incredibile thing happened: I somehow went to listen to a music videoclip. This clip was being sang by 5 people, looked like a 70's band. The main singer was from Romania but moved to the USA some time ago, and looked a bit like Benny Hill.

When they started singing - it was just incredible. The music was incredible and their voices were incredible. The voices were digitized - meaning the voices were going through synthesizers (you know, like in the 70's).

The incredible thing is this - how could the human brain create a music dynamics between five voices, percussion instruments, synthesizers, sincops (there were these as well, where the music would stop and one voice would be heard) ON THE FLY?????????????????? How can that even be possible??? I mean, I could accept that if it didn't make sense as music, like random music "ramblings". But this song, everything about it, made PERFECT sense like it was god-written if you will, like a great composer made it

It just blows my mind. Think about it - songs are being made over long periods of time, with notes, instrument dynamics being considered, analysis etc. How could my brain create something that made perfect sense ON THE FLY???

And no, I can't reproduce the song, but I remember it to great detail in a non-musical way. I remember the clip, the faces singing, one was entering a bar and then the instruments stopped (sincope) and there was a lone voice singing, I remember all this, but I don't remember the music. I remember these things and I can associate the figures with what was happening music wise - but other than the voices being synthesized, I can't give any further details. It just made perfect sense in my head and I don't think, one bit, that it just an impression because I have a "vivid" memory of the song but I can't express it.

To me, this is just one of the most unbelievable things I've ever been through, and probably will be a long time from now.

PS. Oh yeah, and I remember CharlieA returned to TVS. In my dream that is. He was saying a big mistake was to eat something, and then immediately try to eat again (wtf).

Quote from: tkxii on December 20, 2010, 06:04:41 pm

Very very quick jump

Raptor, about the hip bend, I think it is in part due to genetics/limb structure. If you lok at the way cskin walks, his legs are slightly pointed outwards, meaning he has a glute preference. People with straighter legs, or legs pointed inwards may use the deeper quad bend more. Examples include Guy dupuy, maybe adarqui, AUT, myself.. it's hard for me to throw my legs out to much actually

I'm not sure about that. I still think Adarqui could get higher with more posterior chain, he's currently destroying his knees, (they look to be under extreme tension when he jumps judging by their position) in my opinion because of this high dependence on quads and their usage in jumping. To me, that's sub-optimal biomechanics. I know I'm on an island while saying what I'm about to say, but I don't really think it depends that much on the individual.

Yes, it does depend on the individual, but I think more in strength than in structure. I think in terms in structure the body will alter the jump stance (feet wider apart) and stuff like that, rather than muscle involvement. Muscle involvement depends on strength IMO.

Worked the graveyard shift on Xmas eve, got home 8am Xmas day.

Ghetto workout.

superset
pullups:          4 x 10
dips:               4 x 15
ply pushups:   4 x 10
dragonflags:   4 x 6
calf raises:      4 x 20 each leg


Tried to do a finisher set of pullups, only mustered 11 before I decided to call it a day.

Did a few 'closed eyes balance on one foot' things on the hurt foot (right one). Heard it's good for proprioception, the being's self awareness in space. Had my toes all curled up gripping the soles of my Nike frees, I bet they are really useful, so I did a few on my good foot too.

yeah it sucks


but jumping in the waffles today

i got prolly a few inches over the rim im not rele sure it was a weird jump off 2 feet so if anything im up about 3"s from the time i rele wanted to get back into it

and probably 2 inches increase on my running vert

im almost dunking again without a oop, if i got a good oop i think i could throw down a weak one

but def 3 more inches and i should be able to throw down again, off 1 foot anyway, 2 feet is a different story

and to help speed those gains up i bought tropinol by Iforce, their new test booster.  i guess they do what Animal does and pick people from the forums to test it out.  they did their blood work n all that got their test levels before and after and some of them rose up 300% or so and estrogen levels dropped so hopefully its a good product that wont get banned for awhile