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Damn nice on the video!
It's actually so good that it looks more like a bad pro work than like a great amateur one.
^^^
That's somehow a great compliment!

haha thanks!

if i had a team helping me, like, telling them the kind of shot i wanted etc, it would have come out alot better.. seems to be my recurring problem, shooting from too far away.. i need to go with my gut on how far to put the cam, THEN move in 10-20 feet closer hah..

i want to make some really weird/insane vids, it's kind of hard going out there and shooting that kind of thing by yourself, it feels a bit nutty hehe!@$!@ finally manned up though and got one of these videos done, that i have in my 'todo list'.. i have so much more, have to keep manning up and make some cool stuff.

it seems most of the stuff will be a bit eery/sadistic/creepy, dno why.. i'm kind of taking stuff i dream about, and put it on vid.. i mean if i could get good at doing that, i'd be very happy.. !!!!!

peace man

A.P. Day 8:

- Warmup: Light jog, sprint drills.
- SPRINT WARMUP: 2x15 yard sprints.

- DOUBLE-LEG BOUND: 5 x 5 bounds
- MR tuck jumps: 4 x 10
- MR pogos: 4 x 5


- SQUAT: 3 x 5 @ 190 lbs.
- GHR: 3x5
- CALF RAISE: 4 x 10 w/ 135 lbs.

- Stretch. (and crazy huge post workout shake because I got braces and eating hurts like hell. But I still ate later in the night anyway... cause I'm manly like that)

Hamstrings feeling all better. GHR actually felt pretty good. I've found 5 reps is usually my AF, can't get any more.

I think I'll be adding short box jumps for speed daily (or as often as possible) to my routine. It was suggested by one of my coaches, but of course I need to start light. "Athletes don't hurt themselves doing too much. They hurt themselves doing too much too fast" -Erik Bates, my head coach. (not the one who suggested box jumps)

Squats felt pretty awesome. I'm going slightly below parallel every time. I just don't feel comfortable going absurdly deep on them. Last year I could barely manage getting to parallel, now it's my comfort zone.

nice!! good workout today..

man i hated braces, so much.. hell

Sup everyone, my name is Martin (some friends call me guga). Ive been surfing the forum for over a month reading the journals and the funny theards (sexy pics, off topic and some of the hilarious crap that adarqui posts) but I was too lazy and too weak to register ( I wanted to increase my numbers a little bit first lol). Why I train, because my dream has always been being able to dunk hahaha.

welcome man!!!

So I guess that Im gonna add my stats and training background here and also on a journal.

Current stats.

Age: 26 (fuk)
Height: 5'11
BW: 150-152lbs
Squat (oct-2-2010): did 85kg x 6 reps (190lbs) (left 2, maybe 3 on the tank) so I guess my max is around 105kg (230lbs.. yeah it sucks badly).
Current VJ/CMJ: 24"
Current 2 leg running VJ: 26"

PRs
Squat around the same number maybe 5kg+
VJ: 26"
2 leg running VJ: 28" (crappy explosiveness even when at that time I was feeling smooth on my jumps)

well, you're not too far off your pr's, so make a good push & stay consistent, improving your strength / getting in max jumps, you'll get past those in no time.

Training background.

Ive been training (if you can call that training) for 5 years. Yes, only 1.5xbw crappy. Used to do only ATG Squats (I mean going downnnnn, not breaking parallel). At the beginning I was making quick gains, but at a certain poin, the lack of quality food (im skinny) didnt let me improve anymore, in short resume I was getting strong, then loosing weight (muscle mass ofc). so I got stuck.

At the beginning of 2010 I stopped lifting since I lost my motivation and I didnt lift for 4-5 months, then I bitch slapped me to stop being a pussy and started to lift again now taking more notice about my diet and adding supplements since a was lacking on proteins (using whey now). Still not as motivated as before but lifting. Now Im squatting parallel since I think it helps more with the force absorption, that is something that I always lacked when I was jumping (I just can jump at my max tacking 2-3 relaxed steps, not from a run).

have you ever done anything like MR tuck jumps/pogos/depth drops for improving your force absorption?

Since there isnt a single decent gym at my city I bought my own stuff to train at home (I havent found a gym with a squat rack) and I only have pins so I cant squat till failure.

I rarely train my upper body, well I do pull ups and push ups two times a week, sometimes some tricep/bicep.

I guess is too much shit for an intro.

it's alright man just look forward, forget the past.. btw, still improve strength on upper, even if it's just weighted pushups/dips/chins/pullups, it helps.

peace man

Quote from: adarqui on October 12, 2010, 06:52:34 am

workout: dunk session, caff'd up hardcore!
- drove 45 minutes to a court that should be open until 11pm based on the website (FAU outside courts), got there at 9:50, lights were already off.. fml

Yo I HATE it when that shit happens! You heard of Kevin Billerman? He coached FAU men's bball from 1995-1999. He now coaches a hs team in NC

nope never heard of him.. ya i ended up going to bed at 8:30am cause of those stupid shits not keeping the lights on.

boom, good, bad, wutitis?

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Unfortunately, I only have an audio and still pics...but in order to provide "proof" that I'm actually the one in the vid, I've included a "review" http://www.cvnc.org/reviews/2004/may/RSOFuture.html from the classical voice of nc...I'm mentioned briefly in the 3rd to last paragraph; they misspell my name as Sreeniker Ram instead of Sreeniket Ram, lol...

It was back in 2004, when I was 16 and I still played bball, could dunk a tennis ball, and wasn't on anti-depressants lol...

dayum

10/11/2010
 
bw = 154 (bananas, literally !!)
soreness = hamstrings a little (still), chest a little still
aches/injuries = felt pretty good
fatigue = low

workout: dunk session, caff'd up hardcore!
- drove 45 minutes to a court that should be open until 11pm based on the website (FAU outside courts), got there at 9:50, lights were already off.. fml

video-shoot:
- went to parking garage & shot some footage for my vid.. vid seems to be coming out alright but man filming by yourself sucks, too far zoomed out in the cam, so, had to zoom in with vid editor and that loses quality.. also messed up a closeup with me and my rambo knife.
- cool shit.. i was holding my rambo knife grilling camera, taking really deep breathes, and after like 20 or so i started shaking, shit got crazy, cant see it on cam, but glutes/legs/body was shaking, like i was ready to kill something.. i had to hold this position + breathing for 3 minutes so it got kinda nutty.. hardly blinked either, thought i'd get good closeup on cam but too far out.

workout #2:
- 3:10am - 4:00am : 10, 15, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 10, 10, 10, 10 = 265 tot
- hamstring iso: 1, 1, 1, 1,
- calf raise: 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20,



might upload video tonight, dno, i'm still amped up from taking so much caffeine today & not really working out good.. sucks (6:51am)

after rendering the vid, see a few things i need to fix.. vid came out pretty cool though.. will fix those things tomorrow and upload.

pc

Quote from: adarqui on October 11, 2010, 06:34:16 pm

you're reaching for the rim on dj's right?

Wrong!
I do DJs in my house , and the ceiling is low ( about 8'6'' ) so all i can do is head-height jumps.

oooh, i may have asked that before, forgive me if i forgot  cool, ya video analysis would be best.. i remember seeing some really weird vert measuring device, which hooked some kind of tape measurer to your waist, but i don't see how that could work due to horizontal displacement.. was odd, need to find the link for it again one day, i've never seen anyone use it anywhere.