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Hey man just wanted to say I always react in a similar fashion - one realization of something I was doing wrong and all of a suddenly it's X months of training down the drain. That's just not true. Maybe training wasn't optimal, but you couldn't have learned what you learned without that experience. Your time is never wasted. Thinking like that can be really mentally draining. Things get much easier what you can take a step back and analyze without beating yourself up.

This^^^

Look man... it's OK to be passionate about analysing stuff and getting up with better ways to train. Same goes for keeping an open mind (I'm looking at Avishek).

But you have to keep a cool head, stay calm, and if it's the case - then make the adjustment. Nothing wrong with that. Just bring it down. You're at a 10 and you need to be at a 2.

You're a really odd guy man... trust me.

I haven't read so much overanalyzing over small details in quite a while... and I'm to blame for your very narrow stance? wtf

I've always squatted wide and I always felt like narrow stance squatting is just an exaggeration by people who don't know any better and come up with "yeah but that's athletic" and if you ask them "what do you mean by that" they can't respond. They just keep on saying "it's athletic" => the obvious sign that that guy is full of crap.

Now I remember reading somewhere Lance writing that guys with longer legs need wider stance. But I thought that was just cheating for the sake of moving more weight and sacrificing depth by an excuse of height.

So in your paranoia you thought Lance was secretly recommending a wider stance so that you cheat yourself from getting stronger?

My form was so shit, but i think that was partly because i insisted on my (very) narrow stance.

So it didn't occur to you, in all this time training, to try a different stance width?

What is your calf strength? Watching the video, by the way you put your feet on the ground, it looks like you have "heavy" feet to me.

How much can you calf raise with good form, slow tempo for 15 reps?

Crazy russian dunker:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBZqBXJCWy0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBZqBXJCWy0</a>

Balotelli dunks:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1403993929820471&

Click:

http://youtu.be/RQfZ9lgh6xM?t=3m23s

For me, like I said - I think eccentrically, after the landing, there might be benefits. But in terms of actual power DEVELOPMENT you can do much safer and much more effective exercises (you can also do depth jumps for the eccentric part).

Oh and also this is much different of a movement than a regular KB swing. That for me with a 24kg is much easier because I lose acceleration at the top by stopping it slightly. Instead of swinging it, I would have to throw the kettlebell upwards or behind me for a similar effect as these jumps.

Yeah that would be the best exercise possible in terms of KB swings. Throw the KB AFTER THE HIP HYPEREXTENSION is reached.

The only possible positive effect I see in your exercise is the landing with a ton of forward momentum and being able to stabilize that landing without having the knee collapsing. So it's actually in the eccentric phase if there's any benefit. But as far as developing force, even with the swing being initiated by the legs... no, it's not superior by any means to a regular swing.