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Yeah all those issues that ball players have technically are due to either:

1) Lack of strength in the proper places to "look" and "act" good on their run-up/plants
or
2) Lack of practice
Sometimes there's a 3rd:
3) Bad structure for that particular jumping method. But truth be told, you're going to have a bad structure if SOMEONE tells you to jump differently (say a two footed jumper meets someone who tells him to jump off one leg and he sucks - that could be a structure problem but MOST LIKELY it's a lack of practice and lack of strength in the proper places).

When I started to jump 12 years ago after doing no kind of sports up until that point (up until being 15 years old) - obviously I was completely uncoordinated and had a 12 inch jump. But over time I'd say my jump technique got pretty good just by jumping day in and day out to the rim. I had no understanding whatsoever of training/techique or anything like that, just jump.

Yes but the other rim opposed to this 120 inch rim is 119".

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What about if you measure yourself at the same exact time each day you do it (say immediately after you wake up)?

A low bodyfat is an indicator for some other stuff that helps, endocrine efficiency, better CNS and so on and so forth. So when you see a guy with a low bodyfat being athletic, there are more reasons behind that than just the low bodyfat alone.

So Lance, you were saying to do full squats + GHR + one-leg exercise + lower leg exercise in one day? Isn't that a bit much? And box or pin squat from 1-2 " above parallel + RDL + one-leg exercise + lower leg on the other day?

Here:

So my advice is to push up your squat and box squat/pin squat, rdl and ghr, and single leg dominant exercise on both days.

If so, I imagine the volume will be low for all these 4 exercises^^^

There were actually two points that were trying to be made with this article:

1) Don't take back squatting as the only strength indicator especially if you want to improve on your one leg jump
AND
2) Don't ignore your calves for the exposed reasons.

It's like saying "winning money on the lottery ain't going to make you happy" or something. It doesn't matter that you also start spending a lot more than before you won the lottery and end up broke in 1 month, it was about making a point. You know, being metaphoric and shit.

And I've tried to lay it out with that example so that people that will say that increasing bodyweight while also increasing the squat (even getting a better ratio so a better squat relative strength) will understand that there's more to it than that when it comes to jumping off one leg. And there are reasons why the bodyweight must be kept down. It's nothing more than this what that article is all about. I think people that wanted to understand DID understood what I was trying to say there.