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Basketball / Re: greatest crossover of all time?
« on: April 12, 2014, 09:49:20 pm »
I don't find that impressive at all.
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Basketball / Re: greatest crossover of all time?
« on: April 12, 2014, 03:55:08 pm »
I disagree. I found that the people considered the "best" defenders always overreact at "streetball" moves. So they're the easiest to trick.
They might get steals etc, but we choose to ignore those and get the moments when they get tricked.
Same with people that block a ton of shots but also get a lot of facials. We choose to ignore when they block people, and then we focus on these rare moments when they get a facial thrown on them. Think Mutombo, Alonzo Mourning, Shawn Bradley etc.
They put themselves in the position to get in a poster, but putting themselves in that position allows them to block a ton of shots and help their team.
So my point is - these "good defenders" are the easiest to get "very tricked" just because they go all out and when they fail, they look really bad. When they don't fail, they get the ball. So when they fail they look like idiots (this case), and when they don't they give their teams at least the possession, if not 2 points on the fast break.
They might get steals etc, but we choose to ignore those and get the moments when they get tricked.
Same with people that block a ton of shots but also get a lot of facials. We choose to ignore when they block people, and then we focus on these rare moments when they get a facial thrown on them. Think Mutombo, Alonzo Mourning, Shawn Bradley etc.
They put themselves in the position to get in a poster, but putting themselves in that position allows them to block a ton of shots and help their team.
So my point is - these "good defenders" are the easiest to get "very tricked" just because they go all out and when they fail, they look really bad. When they don't fail, they get the ball. So when they fail they look like idiots (this case), and when they don't they give their teams at least the possession, if not 2 points on the fast break.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: April 12, 2014, 06:16:04 am »
Yeah a good question... you can kinda see him with your mind's eyes doing a series of ankle jumps as a warm-up before the race.
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Basketball / Re: greatest crossover of all time?
« on: April 12, 2014, 06:15:15 am »
I don't understand you people... it really wasn't anything fast or whatever. It was just the defender overreacting to it.
So if I do a slow crossover and the defender is an idiot and fells down because he's "crazy defensively" (you know, people that go all out defensively even when they don't have to) - suddenly I pulled out a great move? No, I didn't, it just happened that the defender was an idiot and in this case - that he slipped.
Want to talk about great crossovers? Tim Hardaway, Jason Williams on Gary Payton etc... these are great. Where the move actually is fast and very well performed. I'm not impressed about the Iverson on Jordan move either. Jordan just sucked on that defensive possession, it wasn't the move that was great.
So if I do a slow crossover and the defender is an idiot and fells down because he's "crazy defensively" (you know, people that go all out defensively even when they don't have to) - suddenly I pulled out a great move? No, I didn't, it just happened that the defender was an idiot and in this case - that he slipped.
Want to talk about great crossovers? Tim Hardaway, Jason Williams on Gary Payton etc... these are great. Where the move actually is fast and very well performed. I'm not impressed about the Iverson on Jordan move either. Jordan just sucked on that defensive possession, it wasn't the move that was great.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 11, 2014, 03:22:14 pm »
I wouldn't worry that much about it.
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Basketball / Re: greatest crossover of all time?
« on: April 11, 2014, 03:18:42 pm »
Nothing impressive about the move. Just the defender being an idiot/slipping. That's all.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 11, 2014, 09:31:23 am »
What I meant is - it doesn't sound realistic to me (assuming it was done on a track, not in the conditions that you were doing it). For a guy that trains for quite some time, like you, 16 seconds sound unrealistic for an 100 meters all-out sprint ON A TRACK.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 11, 2014, 08:13:28 am »
No, I didn't understand it.
By the same token I could start squatting 10% of my 1RM and say "hey, the important thing is that I'm squatting".
By the same token I could start squatting 10% of my 1RM and say "hey, the important thing is that I'm squatting".
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 11, 2014, 06:08:17 am »
So 16 seconds is not an eternity? How about 20s? 1 minute? Half an hour? If 16 seconds is not an eternity, then no other value is, no matter how long.
It's not that hard to use common sense and common sense says that 16 seconds is a very, very long time for 100m for an all-out sprint - hence why I said you must've been coasting.
PS. Obviously, I said this assuming you were running on a straight line on the track.
It's not that hard to use common sense and common sense says that 16 seconds is a very, very long time for 100m for an all-out sprint - hence why I said you must've been coasting.
PS. Obviously, I said this assuming you were running on a straight line on the track.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 11, 2014, 03:43:36 am »I can't help but to think that if you're finishing the 100m in 16 seconds... you're really not giving it your all. When I sprint it's pretty much the only time (it also applies in skanderberg, for me) - when I give it my all. Everything I have. It's yet another weird thing about me. Failure in sprinting is not an option. Knowing I didn't give it my absolute best is not an option. It's really hard to explain.
So... 16 seconds sound like an eternity and sound like a submaximal sprint to me.
So what time do you finish the 100m in when you give it your all?
Never tried it. I would most definitely collapse after it. I feel like passing out after an all out 50m and it takes minutes to recover to an even decent heartrate (that is not over 150 or so) - I feel really bad even after 30m sprints.
At 100m I would either not give all or just die or something
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 09, 2014, 02:01:23 pm »
I could never understand the double arm swing. The amount of overload I get in the jumping leg is too much to cope with, I would have my leg collapse every time.