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Dunk of the summer:

http://www.wimp.com/angelosharpless/

So foam rolling lats and upperchest should improve the thoracic extension?

What do you think is the cause of the elbows not being able to come up? What muscles do you suspect are tight?

Also did this:

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

There's definitely something wrong with my upperbody flexibility, but improving hip flexibility should help improve upperbody flexibility as well.

And:

http://californiastrength.com/videos/viewvideo/52/cal-strength-exercises/flexibility-exercises-for-the-upper-body-in-olympic-weightlifting

Any other similar resources? (I'm searching now via google)

Haha, right.

And did this year help you? What was the point of this? (strength increase, strength maintenance while cutting down fat/bodyweight etc)

OK so I have this issue with mobility in my upperbody ever since forever. I cannot shoot from above my head (I have to shoot a basketball from the shoulder), I can't dunk two handed (if I try, I have to have my arms in front of me a bit, not exactly over head) and I can't catch in a clean with the elbows forward BY ANY MEANS. Only with the elbows down.

If I try to shoot a basketball from above the head my arm will just rotate while I'm shooting and airball it 5 meters away from the rim, or if I try to catch with the elbows forward I either have to rotate the elbows out (and even then I can't catch the bar with the elbows up) or if I put one arm with the elbow straight ahead, then the other one has to be with the elbow DOWN, perpendicular to the ground. There's no way in hell that elbow is coming up no matter what you do.

So obviously, these things limit me IMMENSELY, and they always did.

Now the question is - how to correct them. I'm very skeptical of stretching since these issues are so severe (I'm so far away from where I want to get to) that I don't really believe stretching would help but still, any suggestions? Any stretches for this stuff?

I'm not ever aware WHAT is limiting me in the first place. Is it a tight chest? Tight shoulders? Scapula problems (I've had these in the past)? Upperback? It's probably ALL of them.

I'd really appreciate some videos for correcting this.

Make sure when you do ab wheel rollouts to round the back a ton. If you arch it you're going to feel it in the lowerback.

Like this:



http://www.shapeshiftermagazine.com/3/01.htm