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I think you are. For one, you look less downwards, and your back seems to be straighter. The thing that bothers me is that you don't finish the extension in the air, you don't "pull" yourself in the air completely, or extend, like a cat, extend that spine and hips, you just "jerk" it a bit and that's it.
Chile? Chile women = the shit.
But what is your job? Unless is secret or something.
THat last workout (week?) was hard to recover from. I skipped training yesterday (!!) and i'm still pretty beat up today but will force a workout. Also ate a lot of food and slept a lot .. but to no avail .. broad jumps are hard on the body huh. Using the TENS unit on my calves and hips may have made them worse .. lol.. interesting..
Anything new seems especially hard on the body. For the noninitiated bounding will be really hard on tibials and all of lower leg... For me a squat day will leave me w days of soreness but bounding is hardly noticeable if volume is moderate. It's part of a warmup. You will adapt. Your not going high or far on your broad jumps and will quickly adapt. The single leg bounds are where you always need to be aware of volume constraints to recover. You will get there though.
Tangentially, Todday interesting to read about your experience with changing the dunk hand so late in the game. Ive never done a dunk with my R hand before .. but ... since i am a RL plant jumper who has never got a game time dunk .. im tempted to explore dunking with my R hand! I can't palm the ball with my R hand. But never really tried to either and today I found I could work up to it by warming up to it by trying to palm my 6kg medball, then my bigger/slippier bball before attempting a normal grippier ball. Will work on my grip and try dunking with it on friday.
Part of my brain thinks does R hand or L hand matter when you can dunk doublehand? isn't that eliminating any advantage or disadvantage gained or lost by using one hand over the other? But when i think about it, my double hand dunks are done kinda L hand dominant anyway and it's possible i can gain by doing them R hand dominant? Maybe that's worth exploring. Will report back tmr if you're interesting in reading about my experience with it.
I'll be honest I never really gave it such earnest tries until I watched LBSS jump. But to me it's a godsend. You maybe eliminate some of the help when you double hand dunk but for me not all... There are days when I'm not jumping high and I can double hand dunk (jump up and dunk it cleanly w no tomahawk) but can't cleanly dunk w one hand... Which is weird.
For me at least jumping with the left hand back makes a huge difference. I just trained on vertec and easily PRed over 40" (touched 11'2") with my left hand. Didn't even feel great. In fact using the left has me doing a much more real sideways shoulders turned plant...
One thing I've always been told is I seem to need to jump higher than others to dunk. I will be able to hit my head on the backboard while someone else of the same height as me can't but can dunk easier than me... I think using the left hand levels the playing field for me. When I jump and touch w left I feel like I'm jumping maximally high and then reaching vs having my hand inside my body and worrying about timing...
Well there is a reason I told you to drill standing jumps before multiple but wth. Ok your not looking quad dominant.
The broad jump itself is helpful because "slow" athletes don't know how to use their hips and gluteus. It's why you travel in the weird diagonal up on your dunks, no hip pop at extension. Learning how to use your hips to jump vertically is hard. So we start you going forward. It's much easier to use your hips in the horizontal plane than vertical... Broad jumps will allow you to get used of this and then you can translate it to jumping up. Don't worry about what the standing broad jump will do for your athleticism, your thinking too far ahead... Learn the skill. Become proficient. Then use it as a base to do exercises that will make you a much better athlete like jump, jump, dunk and many multi jump variations.
But oh my god.... Do you ever have a neutral back? Vid quality isn't excellent but it looks like you somehow avoid ever getting neutral for everything you do... This can literally add a foot to your vertical if you fix it.Sorry about the quality. Will try take better video over the coming sessions.. still working out how .. with angle and lighting and so on. Will improve. And about my neutral back or lack of .. yeah :/ Idk .. i awlays wondered how that would help my dunk .. cause i dont have it there either.. hmm, a foot would be amazing though. Fk! How should I fix this?
on the tosses, did you measure to where the ball hit the ground or where it stopped rolling?
