Look at 1:14. Exact same body angles produced as in the Rucker Park NYC vid, just a different run-up angle. Look carefully where his feet are pointing when he plants (crazy).
I just watched the vid in slow-mo just now from the front cam (head-on shot).
He plants his right foot first, as he plants that foot, he hasn't coiled his upperbody yet (counter-rotated into lowerbody/achilles tendon). His body is still facing forwards towards the basket at this point.
As the left foot plants, he counter-rotates/twists upperbody into lowerbody/Achilles. HUGE, HUGE counter rotation going on. At lift-off whole body/Achilles is coiled/twisted, you see his body facing the side on cam.). He's put massive coil into both right & left foot (planting) from counter-rotating with the upperbody. He just coils then uncoils. Even though he is putting coil through most of the body, it's the coil he produces in his Achilles/plant that is the defining factor.
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Develop the strength in the gym, develop T-DUBS technique/coiling/elastic energy at the basket.
Twisting in a one-leg jump instead of coming up liniarily and jump definitely helps in my experience (if anything, the center of gravity gets a better trajectory and more muscles can be utilized/better leverage is obtained).
Watch the vid.
Two-legged jump.
The twisting torque/force (bodyweight) he produces (refer to quote) thousands of times (dunkin') through mainly his achilles tendons at plant is springing him that high.
what's even more confusing, is the fact that i don't dunk head on, i rotate into my plant and my feet are usually pointed to the left of the rim/basket.
here's a pic from last dunk session:
adarqui, replicate how T-DUB is running/lining upto the basket. Then your on your way to producing masses amount of full-body elastic energy.
There is no great T-DUB coil or spiralling of the myosin filaments from that position your in within that pic.
See the guy with the red shorts in the pic?, he is facing in the same direction how T-DUB is setting up when he plants.
In that pic from your last dunk session, your feet/legs/torso have to be pointing to the right wall (the direction the guy in the red shorts is facing), IF your to replicate T-DUBS super dunk/action/elastic energy development.
Watch the vid, watch where T-DUBS left foot/legs/torso plant & look where the camera is at. He is completely face on (facing the right wall in your dunk picture). Overtime this coiling will generate huge amounts of elastic energy especially in the achilles tendons & throughout the entire body.
wait, t-dub has a secret technique to jump insane? who taught it to him? or does he do it naturally? and if people incorporate this spiraling technique, how many instant inches can they expect?.
It's not really a secret technique.
All T-DUB is doing is squaring up his body/feet to the basket (increasing elastic torque throughout his whole body, mainly achilles tendons), as opposed to you who dunks mainly head on. Your not storing & releasing any elastic energy dunking that way.
T-DUBS secret lies in his Achilles tendons due to all the winding/twisting his body imparts on them when he plants his feet through 100's/1000's of dunks.
There is no way performing weighted calf raises can compete in terms of generating elastic energy with the technique/forces T-DUB generates when planting/dunking. (Refer back to the quote in OP/watch vid).
Notice how much coil & twisting torque T-DUB generates in the muscles, tendons, elastic fascia etc on Rucker Park NYC dunk vid below. Coiling/twisting increases elastic energy through spiralling of the myosin filaments.
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BoingVERT::: T-DUB::: HAS ANYONE EVER JUMPED HIGHER ON A DUNK?.
Notice how much winding/twisting torque is going through his Achilles tendons when he plants his feet.
See the feet slide in when he plants?. Left foot facing cam. Twisted repeats.
WOW!.
That is straight up achilles tendon/myosin filaments maximal overlap right there.
Guyton (1984) speculated that once the actin and myosin filaments have maximally overlapped, more tension can be realized by spiralling of the myosin filaments. A change in the length of the pitch of the actin helix may also boost force production during a very intense muscular contraction (Verkhoshansky & Siff, 1996). Both processes can be compared to twisting a rubber band after it has fully contracted.
Following on...
I just watched the vid in slow-mo just now from the front cam (head-on shot).
He plants his right foot first, as he plants that foot, he hasn't coiled his upperbody yet (counter-rotated into lowerbody/achilles tendon). His body is still facing forwards towards the basket at this point.
As the left foot plants, he counter-rotates/twists upperbody into lowerbody/Achilles. HUGE, HUGE counter rotation going on. At lift-off whole body/Achilles is coiled/twisted, you see his body facing the side on cam.). He's put massive coil into both right & left foot (planting) from counter-rotating with the upperbody. He just coils then uncoils. Even though he is putting coil through most of the body, it's the coil he produces in his Achilles/plant that is the defining factor.
HUGE ELASTIC ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.
Develop the strength in the gym, develop T-DUBS technique/coiling/elastic energy at the basket.
Video below.
Same lay-up & plants with nearly every dunk.
Look at 1:14. Exact same body angles produced as in the Rucker Park NYC vid, just a different run-up angle. Look carefully where his feet are pointing when he plants (crazy).
That is T-DUBS secret. The torque/coil he generates through his core/Achilles/knee tendons with every dunk (refer to quote).
The rod in the video below references exactly what is happening when we talk about spiralling/torquing/coiling of the myosin filaments, tendons, muscles, elastic fascia etc through months/years of coiled dunkin'.
Next time you watch the Rucker Park NYC dunk vid, think about the yellow rod in the vid. His hand at the bottom of the rod are T-DUBS Achilles.
The more you coil the rod (myosin filaments, tendons, muscles, elastic fascia etc), the faster everything snaps back (uncoils).
It doesn't matter how many exercises Air alert, BoingVERT, MadBounce etc etc come out with, NO EXERCISE in terms of generating full body elastic energy can compete with T-DUBS planting technique. NONE. You hearin' me adarqui?. (refer to quote). It's a combination of high bodyweight forces mixed with spiralling of the myosin filaments.
The Catapult Mechanism: Elastic Recoil of Fascial Tissues.
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Kangaroos can hop much farther and faster than can be explained by the force of the contraction of their leg muscles. Under closer scrutiny, scientists discovered that a spring -like action is behind the unique ability: the so-called catapult mechanism (Kram & Dawson 1998). Here the tendons and the fascia of the legs are tensioned like elastic bands. The release of this stored energy is what makes the amazing hops possible. Hardy surprising, scientist thereafter found the same mechanism is also used by gazelles. These animals are also capable of per-forming impressive leaping as well as running, though their musculature is not especially powerful. On the contrary, gazelles are generally considered to be rather delicate, making the springy ease of their incredible jumps all the more interesting.
Fascia expresses a significant increased elastic storage capacity (how much is still not truly known).
How is it developed?.
One way is preparatory counter-movement. "Multidirectional movements, with slight changes in angle are utilized; this might include sideways or diagonal movement variations as well as spiralling rotations. With this method, large areas of the fascial network are simultaneously involved".
Now I can see why T-DUBS movement is a perfect dunkin' exercise. It's full body.
Anyways, was thinking. I respond well to that template for strength, but if I want my legs to get more explosive, is this still the way to go with the depth jumps, oly and squat?
"It is clear that explosive leg movements are predetermined by explosive arm movements". - Charlie Francis.
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