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Introduce Yourself / Re: Norwegian Girl
« on: April 04, 2011, 10:45:57 am »
Whoever voted negative on my post about her Olympic level potential is a retard. Either because he thought I was kidding or making a sexual joke or whatever, or because he doesn't believe it, he's still a retard.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Norwegian Girl
« on: April 04, 2011, 08:09:32 am »
The potential she has for Olympic level, in my opinion, is very high.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Imbalances
« on: April 04, 2011, 04:28:36 am »
In my opinion, your best bet is to decrease the weight and go with more reps. More reps mean more volume for both your legs, and less weight means your weak leg won't have as much overload and will "try" to keep up. You need to stop your set when the weak leg starts to give up.

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And we all know how effective that is. Here, go out and buy a few!

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Norwegian Girl
« on: April 04, 2011, 04:22:14 am »
You just know she's lying  :'(

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How did the injury occur?

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Introduce Yourself / Re: for 45" running vert
« on: April 03, 2011, 06:50:03 pm »
So your squat is pretty much 3x, but your VJ is ~34. It would be interesting to see what's your vert when you're fully recovered... any idea when that's possible? You seem to be loaded a lot with training lately.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Lithuanian dunk contest
« on: April 03, 2011, 05:47:14 pm »
Oh, right, I meant Letonian.

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Well my point was it's still muscle-dependent and not tendon dependent. Tendon stiffness comes into play only if you have the strength to make that happen. And I still feel it's not a tendon matter but a muscular one, as the MUSCLES will be able to generate more power sensing you're "heavier" because of the acceleration to the ground.

So it comes down to the muscle and not the tendon.

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Now the only counter-example to this is the Olympic lifter that jumps a lot from a standstill and sucks coming off a run. I think in that situation it's a matter of technique (where technique = failing to understand/apply the proper body position to produce the maximum amount of force, and to be the most easy to amortizate, from). Also, the adaptations over time for the O-Lifters require them to generate "standstill" acceleration from a horizontally neutral position, hence their preferred "stopped" position for developing power.

If you train to be damn explosive from a standstill then your SVJ will be better and make your RVJ looks "worse" compared to someone who isn't as good at SVJs. Doesn't necessarily mean RVJ technique is any worse.

Yeah, it bridges the gap between the maximum voluntary power and maximum involuntary power... but I think these people will automatically favor a standing VJ vs a running or dropstep VJ.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: for 45" running vert
« on: April 03, 2011, 05:25:50 pm »
What's your VJ at this point? :ibjumping:

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Well jumping with the legs a bit foward than just straight underneath you gives you some better leverage indeed.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / The reactive effect
« on: April 03, 2011, 03:53:20 pm »
We always hear about the reactive effect as being a spring like movement etc, but let's talk about a countermovement jump vs a paused jump. A countermovement jump will usually be higher.

In my opinion, the only real difference is not a spring like effect of any kind, the only difference in reality is the fact that the muscles get loaded more because the body weight increases as you lower and stop yourself from lowering.

The same thing occurs in a high vs even higher speed plant. The faster you go, the more strength you need to amortizate your body because your bodyweight * acceleration (plant speed) = the total amount of weight that needs to be amortizated. And if you can take in that weight, the muscles (previously enabled eccentrically to stop you from crushing into the ground) remain activated for the concentric part of the movement too, if it's done quickly.

I think that's all there is to it in reality. I keep on hearing about all this "spring" thing and I think that's erroneous and makes people fail to understand the real thing that is going on.

Now the only counter-example to this is the Olympic lifter that jumps a lot from a standstill and sucks coming off a run. I think in that situation it's a matter of technique (where technique = failing to understand/apply the proper body position to produce the maximum amount of force, and to be the most easy to amortizate, from). Also, the adaptations over time for the O-Lifters require them to generate "standstill" acceleration from a horizontally neutral position, hence their preferred "stopped" position for developing power.

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Except for the fact that normal squatting (even 1/4 squats) would give you soreness because of the eccentric portion of the lift. And if you go with concentric only squats, there's still going to be fatigue. I was talking pretty much in terms if CNS adaptations.

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Program Review / Re: Vertfreak
« on: April 03, 2011, 03:39:21 pm »
Quote
Romania, and in particular Bucharest, is one of the key travel destinations in Europe for paedo-sexual offenders. The street-children are frequently victims. It is estimated that five per cent of the homeless children in Romania are forced into sexual exploitation. As a reaction, there has recently been an increase in the numbers of arrests, with foreign perpetrators receiving long prison sentences in Romania.

The trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation remains a serious problem. The law against human trafficking passed in 2001 showed no immediate effects. Women and children are taken from Romania to various countries in Western and Eastern Europe, where they are sexually exploited. In particular street children are easy targets for the false promises of the people traffickers. There have recently been increasing numbers of reports of them being forced into prostitution in cities such as Hamburg, Berlin and Amsterdam.

Romania is also a transit country for victims on their way from a wide range of countries, such as  Turkey or Thailand, to other destination in Europe.


I feel like I want to kiss adistarhj. Is that wrong? Illegal, yes, I know, but wrong?


So you think she's a child? She seems "mature enough" to me. I don't think chronological age is THAT important. It's what's behind the carcass that's important. Whatever, getting into philosophy again.

keep attacking the U.S. bro, good shit.

You need to learn some humor, mister.

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