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Also every time, after about a week, it just got to a point where I would secretly wish for something else to come up so I wouldnt have to go to the gym. 

In my opinion, if you still have this mentality, you shouldn't start training again. It would be a waste of time. If you don't, then welcome.

adarqui said that he had disc, back injuries from deadlifting years ago... he had those lightning bolts too...

You did? So you had the same problem as I have now? What did you do to solve it?

The Weis and the other dunk did look a lot different.

If I plant RL, i thought rotating towards the right (clockwise), would make more sense, but in these examples, the jumpers rotate the opposite way of the plant leg. Kind of like doing a 1,2 punch combo in boxing, you rotate one way (the coil), then uncoil with the 2.

Huh? You mean in a RL plant he actually rotates counterclockwise? You realize that's impossible don't you?

http://www.nba.com/magic/training_tips_squat_pt1_062911.html

http://www.nba.com/magic/training_tips_squat_pt2_062911.html

With my back injury, what do you guys suggest I should limit myself on? I have no idea if it's a spine problem (it appears it is) or a muscle one, but still - I have to stop squatting and deadlifting AT LEAST for a while.

Would dumbbell BSSs be cool? Or would that be too much of a load if it's a disc problem in the spine? What about bodyweight pistol squats? King deadlifts? Calf raises? What about jumping in itself?

So you see - I have multiple things to worry about. What about upperbody stuff like overhead presses? These will put pressure on the spine as well. What about dumbbell raises for the shoulders? And so on and so forth. What should I limit myself to? How about planks?

There's plenty of rotation at 0:26 in the Weis dunk.

In the Zo dunk there's not that much, but he didn't jump as high either (not head to rim by any means).

What is definitely certain is that having more strength allows you to use a deeper bend and load at much higher velocities/depths than not having as much strength (since strength is what Vince lost while getting old). Not sure about anything else.

Quote from: Raptor on August 18, 2011, 05:30:09 pm

Check 3:45 here:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHxq9HHnHCI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHxq9HHnHCI</a>

what about it?

There's a lot of rotation in his plant there. As I observed Vince his entire career, the difference in now vs. back in the day in terms of his plant is his lack of rotation, more quad involvement and less PC, and high center of gravity in his plants now (and lower jumps).

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