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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: I increased my jump of 2 feet by 4 inches in a day.
« on: August 25, 2011, 05:20:19 pm »
You might move differently. Your last step might also lengthen as you will automatically (as you increase strength with that weight) search for more voluntary power and more ROM if you will.

If that's good or bad, I don't know. But as I've seen, you have a pretty short last step so it shouldn't be too bad in your particular situation.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: I increased my jump of 2 feet by 4 inches in a day.
« on: August 25, 2011, 04:40:25 pm »
I could come like that in my plant when I was 17-18 years old. No power, but I could use that speed. I was 67 kg in weight.

Here's a sample of my former speed, although it isn't my best by any means, at 0:09

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC1-0g3_Xnc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC1-0g3_Xnc</a>

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: I increased my jump of 2 feet by 4 inches in a day.
« on: August 25, 2011, 04:26:09 pm »
I think in the one-leg jump it's harder to just "change" your approach speed and power since you're more likely to collapse at the knee if you do it.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: I increased my jump of 2 feet by 4 inches in a day.
« on: August 25, 2011, 04:09:22 pm »
Flip is at a point now that he won't gain too much from improving his approach. He was far away from this point in the past but improved I'd say dramatically (this is not a big word by any means - it's real) in the last week or so. You really need to "power" yourself in a two-leg jump. Obviously, you need great movement efficiency and strength to prevent your knees from collapsing if you do it though.

I could try the same thing Flip did and my knees would collapse and mess my jump up. :ibjumping:

So at this point, besides some better approach (a bit more speed under control if anything) - he's going to be limited by maximal strength. Increase that and Flip will dunk in games on the regular rim no problems.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 25, 2011, 04:04:36 pm »
Self diagnosed.

I guess I will go to a doc :-X these days though to sort it out.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Newbie Introduction
« on: August 25, 2011, 03:33:47 pm »
He trains with you Lance? Damn.

Then he is definitely dedicated (I'm not ironic by the way). I mean, to actually train with a good trainer and putting in the work it already demonstrates the guy has a different mentality now.

Like I said, if he has a different mindset (and apparently he does) - then welcome. No need to be cocky about it. I actually didn't continue to read anymore once I saw that "finding excuses blah blah blah", I felt it doesn't worth it.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 25, 2011, 11:22:54 am »
Me = me.

Since I got this hernia thingy. But at his 120x3 on the squat he has a long way to go. He has great upperbody strength since he worked pretty much all on that... I think he has a bench press of 110x5 at ~85 kg bodyweight.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 25, 2011, 04:31:17 am »
Now he's like "no more squatting since you got injured" (me) - FUCK. :uhhhfacepalm: :wowthatwasnutswtf: :ibsquatting:

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Newbie Introduction
« on: August 25, 2011, 04:25:04 am »
Quote from: TexasDiver on August 24, 2011, 11:43:42 pm
Quote from: Raptor on August 23, 2011, 03:04:56 pm

Comments: I'm considering quitting my vert journey. I just am not motivated anymore. So much money invested, so much time, so much consistent training only to see injuries, total lack of performance (I train for years to jump ~30 inches? wtf, I mean really). I have nothing to train for anymore... I just suck and that's it. There's no way of improving that. Tried to jump off two feet yesterday and today as well, I just suck hard. My body position sucks, I go forward, I can't maintain a straight back when planting, I look in the ground and so on and so forth and I can't correct all this shit. I've tried. My legs collapse when I plant due to bad body positioning... it really is effort in vain and if it's anything I HATE in this world, is wasted effort. I don't think I hate anything else as bad, not even doctors.

So yeah, I'm considering quitting all this, it makes no sense to continue. Years of training and wasted money for nothing.

BY THE WAY - I hope you people fail as well. I honestly do. I don't want you to achieve what I've been training for for years. I want you to suck as hard as possible. That will make my fail less bitter.

Raptor.  It was already pointed out about your reading comprehension skills. I am a newbie here so I wont criticize or be mean but after your comment I did a little reading about you to see if there was any validity to your comment.  Needless to say, what I found was not surprising.  I just wanted to say thanks for the motivation.  I now do have some direct goals.  Not only can I move heavier weight than you in all areas already, I now will exceed any vert you have ever achieved.  Your comment about wanting everyone on here to fail really rubs me wrong.  Be ready for some video of me completely dominating you in your vert goals that you have been training for.  Good luck in your next passion.

Thanks man. I will train for masturbation purposes, usually high-rep sets. You're no match for me there!

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Basketball / Re: sick dunk vid - deserves its own thread ::: victory preparatory academy vprep
« on: August 24, 2011, 04:35:28 pm »
Man, I love the arm swing of that first guy. It definitely helps his jumping a lot.

By the way, I was talking to Oynur some days ago (actually weeks) and he said he feels the armswing gives him sooo much into his jump... that "aggresive" armswing that he has (also after improving his upperbody strength by a lot) makes a big difference and his legs react so much positively in terms of power generation in a powerful armswing vs. a not so powerful armswing.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 24, 2011, 04:24:23 pm »
Quote from: adarqui on August 24, 2011, 03:31:31 pm
Quote from: Raptor on August 24, 2011, 03:06:41 pm
Man... does he coil or what?!

By the way - I timed those jumps in the past - the first jump ended up as 53 inches and second as 51.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijOSJ1KqYqA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijOSJ1KqYqA</a>

he doesn't jump like t-dub!!!!


I know...

Imagine if he did. Wow!

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 24, 2011, 03:06:41 pm »
Man... does he coil or what?!

By the way - I timed those jumps in the past - the first jump ended up as 53 inches and second as 51.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijOSJ1KqYqA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijOSJ1KqYqA</a>

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 24, 2011, 08:39:59 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm2UNT_a3cE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm2UNT_a3cE</a>

'Nuff said.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: T-DUBS biggest secret. Elastic winding & coiling.
« on: August 24, 2011, 05:09:44 am »
Quote from: $ick3nin.v3nd3tta on August 24, 2011, 01:32:52 am
Quote from: T0ddday on August 24, 2011, 12:18:29 am
Totally horrible comparison.

+1.

One of the funniest things I have seen in a while.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: T-DUBS biggest secret. Elastic winding & coiling.
« on: August 23, 2011, 05:09:04 pm »
Quote from: $ick3nin.v3nd3tta on August 23, 2011, 03:20:46 pm
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 truly see why T-DUBS movement is a perfect dunkin' exercise. It's full body.


(added to OP).





Where is that quoted from?

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