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To me... the thing about entropy was never about strength, it was about "nerve". Like I've said it over and over again... whenever he does stuff on the field I'm like "is this guy going to get to bed in the next few seconds to sleep or something?"

Meaning - he looks like he has NO desire to jump, run, do explosive stuff. Just put a bar on his back and move it with slow speeds, that's all he cares about.

That's the impression I personally get from him. So... IMO, the best possible thing for him, by far, would be to do as fast movements as possible - beginning with sprinting and going with multi-response jumps like hurdle jumps etc. I have to emphasize the multi-response thing because I believe that if he'd go with single-response stuff he'd be as slow and lazy looking as he's always been.

I don't get how in the world he thinks he should continue with this slow lifting and training when he's not able to express in quick manner even a decent amount of percentage from the power that his strength says he should be capable of producing.

That is true Vag, he does present himself as failure prone often when in reality that isn't the case at all. I'd like to emphasize what raptor said in his post 'it wont be displayed In the gym, but on the field'. THAT'S an athletes response. He doesn't 'care' if he's 'beasting in the weight room as long as he's being a monster on his choice of field.

Honestly, it sounds like Entropy is inching closer towards my original point number 1. He's sounding like more of a power lifter than an athlete (not that power lifters aren't athletes but you see what im saying?). And let's face it, not many guys can do both simultaneously.

This is 100% correct. We tend to move from a skinny basketball player to a fat powerlifter if you allow ourselves to think "squat strength is all that matters" and we only care about benchmarking that.

Yes but subjecting yourself to RFD work still counts as muscle damage and that muscle must be repaired and grows, so even with a lower time under tension doing explosive work - you can still get very strong. It won't be displayed in the gym, it will be displayed on the actual field.

And if you're an athlete and not a powerlifter, then that's what you should care about.

I know people in the track and field camp that barely squat with too much volume or intensity, yet if you take them out of their never ending plyometric world of bounding and hurdle jumping and long jumping and sprinting and put them in the gym for a few weeks they will start to display amazing strength due to all that plyo work that they have been doing.

It works the other way around too - if strength (squat) work can improve jumping, then jumping and sprinting and bounding can improve the squat. Why? Because they both improve strength. It's just that one does it faster and is less specific while the other does it "slower" but is more specific.

More like powerful than strong.

He does the hand internal rotation thing when his arms are behind his body

Yeah, what I mean is that it's a good idea to cycle strength and explosive cycles for like... forever for our goal.

Once you plateau in strength you can switch to explosive stuff for a while, improve the explosiveness, and then get back to strength. And so on.

To me, the most obvious thing I see for the SVJs is the total lack of armswing... you swing your arms but you get 0 out of it. There's really no synchronization between the armswing and the actual jump... you should work on that more.

The running jumps look ok... although some of them don't look too "certain" in terms of where and when to start the plant etc