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I saw that before I came to here and I must say how does he do it...but i'm pretty sure the answer is somewhere in this thread lol.  How high do you think his vertical is?

well he's a 50+ guy at 6'5 so..

i love his plant too hah.. full speed run up into that weird little bilateral hop.

Was shooting around on the 9'8 rim today with my friend AND I FUCKING DUNKED. He tossed me up some alley oops right in front of the rim. I'm not even jumping at my max today. Shit should be crazy this weekend. Vids comin.

*bows to arowe*

kill it this weekend mannnnnnn@!$!@

niice

4 sets of 15? Damn. Ill never do that!! (Even though I probably will at some point, because Im stupid enough)

ya i'm trying to turn 225 into my beyatch, so far so good.. legs a bit more sore today than last time i did high rep (few days ago, 6x10 etc).. the extra 5 reps definitely recruited some extra mu's.

i need 315 @ 4 x 15 to be honest, my strength is unacceptable ;d

Anyways, NAIS!! Go Darq-man. :darq-man:

NAIS ???

:darq-man: must be madE!@$!@$!@

While I can't comment on everything Jacob has written I think it is hard to criticize the guy for trying to explain to people what the right way to train is and then suggesting that he shouldn't because he has allegedly stolen this information.

For example I know one of the things Jacob was accused of stealing was A-Links concept of the penultimate step (or the idea for using it in an article anyway), however the fact is that Adam didn't invent the penultimate step concept, it has been used by T&F coaches for years.

The same applies to KellyB claiming in his recent article that he introduced the concept of deficit testing. Seriously I nearly fell of my chair laughing when i read that. This was one of the first and most obvious things I was taught to do when I started training people (in the 90's). I am guessing it is a concept that has been around for years as well.

These aren't things that other guys have dibs on, this is common stuff. Maybe if Jacob came along and said he popularized the use of bands and the Russian conjugate system in powerlifting circles then maybe I could see a certain Lou Simmons getting a bit miffed, but just writing information about a topic that someone has already previously written about but is generally well known is not stealing.

Also, I would not be surprised to find a lot of those spam comments are not from Jacob but from one of his affiliates. If you saw in that video he is making a gobsmacking 500-1000 sales per month. That is mostly from Affiliates (I just checked Clickbank - 70% of sales come from affiliates. Compare that to Vertical Mastery - 2% Which is why I will be happy to make 500 in a year ha ha) Affiliates are more likely to use spammy techniques because they don't care about your reputation.

Out of interest I just checked out the other jump programs for affiliate activity

Jump Manual - 70%
Luke Lowery - 21%
VertFreak/Vert Mastery/VJB all well under 7%

So the top 2 most popular programs with affiliates are 2 programs I would put behind the next 3 listed in terms of programming (obviously Lowery WAY behind, Jump Manual is not bad, just not as much customisation which Jacob once told me he felt was over rated, which for beginners is reasonably true).

So Why do affiliates love Jacob and Lowery so much? Recurring commissions. Those 2 both offer the recurring commission upsell (in Lowery's case I am not sure it is actually offered though, I think you just get stung). There is a lesson in internet marketing for you.

ya that's why i really don't claim to have invented anything, except for that lame 'darqsquat' shit on youtube and possibly the visual reactive drills, but even the visual reactive drills were influenced.

but, the way hiller did that pen-ult vid, as lance described below, is alot different than just putting out common information.. he definitely got most of that info from a-link's vids, then made his vid right after..

in the end, no one really deserves credit for anything at this point, because all credit can be given to those who came before us many yeaaars ago.. the only credit that can be given is how that info is programmed into training, that itself can be very unique.. what's funny is, all of these ph.d's/guru coaches are still looking for that next gem they can call their own, that itself brings down s&c because honestly those gems are far and few between, instead you get 99% junk discoveries which dilute the simple & solid training info of the past.

i credit kellyb for his caffeine ideas, verkhoshansky for pretty much everything (msem, stim, shock, frequency, half squat, bounding, overspeed, general strength, peaking, supermethods ideology), jay schroeder for his ideas on frequency (& some ADA/plyo exercises), inno sport for some of it's ideas on areg (& some exercises, REA squat etc), alexV & WGF (korfist/fichter) for their corrective work/core work, coolcolj for his butt fungus & his backing of 'walking' for recovery/fat loss.. dno if i left anything out but that is my 'base' right now.

peace!

Well, hard work pays off. Despite shedding like 100 lbs of my bodyfat and squatting relatively 5 times more, I jump pretty much the same.

based on that vid, you jump way higher in your vids from 2009-2010.. i've said that before though, when you originally posted this video on TVS long ago

i remember you had one video with an insanely fast ZIANI runup, i dont think this is the vid.. it could be though, but i didnt see it in that last jump.

peace

man you are alot leaner now.. good job

some of this came out really cool, especially the first portion of the song.. interesting

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jumopYHTTw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jumopYHTTw</a>