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two things:
1. you don't do exercises like bounds for their own sake. you do them because they teach your body something. you just started learning how to do them. be patient.
2. improvement doesn't have to be - and in fact rarely is - linear. you might struggle to get technique right for bounds for a while and then all of a sudden something clicks and you get a 50cm improvement all at once. you follow my journal, you know how long i was at 33-34 on my "good" days and then how suddenly that jumped up by 2-3 inches.

right big toe wrecked. i've been limping all day. fuck. did daily routine as best i could.

This discussion makes me wonder about a hypothetical scenario:

- Athlete weighs 200lbs, squats 2x bw
- Athlete cuts down weight
- Athlete weighs 175lbs, squats 2x bw still

How would his DLRVJ, SLRVJ, and SVJ been affected, assuming all other factors were held constant?

depends.

trans people go to the bathroom because they have to take a piss, just like everyone else. more republican politicians have been arrested for sexual crimes in bathrooms than trans people.

i lived in chile for a year. longest trips for work have been three weeks. this will be a two-year contract.

motivation to workout very low tonight. gonna drag myself to the gym anyway.

EDIT: dragged self to the gym. continued to drag. shot around, tried to warm up, could not get warmed up. weird. gonna foam roll and stretch now but geez. it's not lack of sleep. hope i'm not getting sick or something.

Quote from: LBSS on April 19, 2016, 04:27:26 pm

so i'm officially moving to pakistan, probably at the end of may/beginning of june. signed the contract yesterday. today i agreed with my boss that my last day in my current job will be may 4. so i'll have most of may off to relax, visit people, pack up my seven years' worth of stuff, and put in storage everything i don't throw out or ship to islamabad.

So what are you going to be doing that is having you move to pakistan?

same shit i'm doing now, more or less. but more responsibility, more money, and in pakistan instead of in DC.

too many stops, too choppy, not adding power with each step. commence practicing with T0ddday method.

1. do a standing jump.
2. walk back and do a one-step jump. if it's higher than your SVJ, then proceed to 3. if not, continue doing one-step jumps, messing with your approach, trying different amounts of knee bend, different distances, etc., until one-step is higher than SVJ.
3. walk back a little farther and do a two-step jump. if this is higher than your one-step, proceed to 4. if not, repeat the second part of 2.
4. walk back a little farther and do a three-step jump. proceed as above.
5. etc., until the extra step no longer gets you any higher.

you are not allowed to add a step until that step consistently gives you more height over previous steps. this isn't that specific to basketball, because it grooves a very specific pattern. but if you're just trying to dunk anything at all under perfect circumstances (join the club!), then it's a good method.

the only advice i can give with respect to the relative distance of your steps is that each additional step you add to your approach should add height to the jump. so start with one step. if the first step doesn't add any height relative to your SVJ, practice it and mess with technique until it does. then add another step and mess with technique until two steps is consistently higher than one. et cetera. whatever relative length of steps you end up with will be specific to you, and pretty well greased, like adarq said.

i never approach from more than four steps away because i can't seem to get any additional power out of the fifth step. although now that i think about it i haven't tried in a long time. might do that this week, just to see.

we call this the T0ddday method.