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Quote from: acole14 on March 29, 2019, 12:17:28 am

Quote from: Coges on February 13, 2019, 05:39:29 pm

Looking good mate.

Thanks mate!
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I have key access to the track down the road now (only a 1.5 year odyssey), so finally I might have a bit of clear air in regards to training facilities. I've started wearing my weight vest during 'gym' sessions and doing more weighted jumps. 100m ht is ~12.2 sec reliably, and recently, I ran a ~25sec 200m and 42sec 300m (this killed me), all just for fun. SVJ has probably ticked up a bit but haven't tested it. Now I can get to the track more regularly, I am going to train for the Quadrathlon, because I'm a few years away from joining the full-time adarq.org run squad, and I still like doing sprint/power-based training for fun (and bball is completely off the cards for now). There's even a score calculator, and playing around with some dummy values, I think adding on [SVJ''*2] to the final score is reasonable to make it a quintathlon (or, substitute for the overhead throw). Anyone else interested (@seifullaah)?

At first I was thinking that you were asking about long distance running some sort of marathon but times 4 lol. But vising the site I see what it is.

I like doing these kinds of tests. Last time I did standing long jump, 120m, 1200m (this was the worst, i prob mentioned it before but I was running the last 2 laps dragging my body, while my body was crying and saying stop lol). We should leave the overhead throw, my svj is weak  .

I'm definitely interested. But my 30m compared to your 30m now, long way off, I saw your 60m run and timed your 30m using quick time and you ran 3.93, that's elite level shit compared to my 4.5 no catching you there. or is there? after some fresh legs  .

Quote from: seifullaah73 on March 29, 2019, 06:26:15 am

Quote from: acole14 on March 29, 2019, 12:17:28 am

Quote from: Coges on February 13, 2019, 05:39:29 pm

Looking good mate.

Thanks mate!
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I have key access to the track down the road now (only a 1.5 year odyssey), so finally I might have a bit of clear air in regards to training facilities. I've started wearing my weight vest during 'gym' sessions and doing more weighted jumps. 100m ht is ~12.2 sec reliably, and recently, I ran a ~25sec 200m and 42sec 300m (this killed me), all just for fun. SVJ has probably ticked up a bit but haven't tested it. Now I can get to the track more regularly, I am going to train for the Quadrathlon, because I'm a few years away from joining the full-time adarq.org run squad, and I still like doing sprint/power-based training for fun (and bball is completely off the cards for now). There's even a score calculator, and playing around with some dummy values, I think adding on [SVJ''*2] to the final score is reasonable to make it a quintathlon (or, substitute for the overhead throw). Anyone else interested (@seifullaah)?

At first I was thinking that you were asking about long distance running some sort of marathon but times 4 lol. But vising the site I see what it is.

I like doing these kinds of tests. Last time I did standing long jump, 120m, 1200m (this was the worst, i prob mentioned it before but I was running the last 2 laps dragging my body, while my body was crying and saying stop lol). We should leave the overhead throw, my svj is weak  .

I'm definitely interested. But my 30m compared to your 30m now, long way off, I saw your 60m run and timed your 30m using quick time and you ran 3.93, that's elite level shit compared to my 4.5 no catching you there. or is there? after some fresh legs  .

hah @ marathon * 4. lmfao!

Quote from: acole14 on March 28, 2019, 11:48:55 pm

Quote from: maxent on March 28, 2019, 10:48:10 pm

Weather is PERFECT nowadays for running outside and yet i haven't been. Need to fix that asap. Also i meant to ask you guys .. do my chances of a gametime dunk (in traffic) increase if i can take off further from the rim? I've looked at my videos and i always jump inside the circle. I feel like it's very hard to get that close to the rim without attracting defenders, esp with the ball. Thoughts?

It depends if you can still reliably dunk further out from the circle. What's your max dunking range?

ok ive never actually tried to dunk from further. Now that might be something i need to try!

But ive been thinking about this and actuaaaaaaaaly in full court competitive games i can barely get the 22" vertical to just hit the rim with a missed dunk inside the circle, im dreaming thinking about taking off further away as if i have that option during games (my vertical drops about 40% thanks to my shitty CV).. ha ha.

Might be a good 'training exercise' though to dunk from further?

Weather is PERFECT nowadays for running outside and yet i haven't been. Need to fix that asap. Also i meant to ask you guys .. do my chances of a gametime dunk (in traffic) increase if i can take off further from the rim? I've looked at my videos and i always jump inside the circle. I feel like it's very hard to get that close to the rim without attracting defenders, esp with the ball. Thoughts?

I think you were right to call me out. Given the background information available to someone neutral reading, the call out was justified, no argument there whatsoever. The state of knowledge at hand can lead to two different viewpoints where both can't be true but somehow the viewpoints are logically valid given different background information. It's like when you say something unexpected to someone and they say 'that is random' to make that statement, but if they knew the full state of your mind at that point, it would no longer be random because they'd see the chain of thought that led to that statement being uttered.

The question of racism here is of the same quality of background knowledge and i hate to say it, 'intent'  (which i think is regrettably known to be abused for excusing racism) matters. If the trio of 'old' 'white' 'fat' are qualities being used to diminish the person in question then it would be racism, i agree. However I would not say i meant the 'white' in a pejorative sense here, if whatever race that person was i would have written it the same way and not have it reflect on that person's basketball ability. I have used it in that sense before but it was a positive way (the 14 yo athletic white phenom i described a few weeks ago in a youth league). That's still racism but positive or whatever.

In general, I don't have a problem personally talking about race casually, yeah we're all equal in theory but in practice im probably not afforded that kind of luxury of a viewpoint, which i think is something another Australian might take for granted (and that would be a good thing). I don't want to live with some kind of delusion that race doesn't matter or exist because that would lead to unrealistic situations otherwise. Or rude awakenings. It's nice to believe you're just another person most of the time, maybe even someone 'normal' but then you'll run into a small amount of racism and find it deeply troubling unless you've cultivated a resistance to racism being able to hurt you. I have to keep race in the foreground because otherwise racism is just too crushing when it happens, kind of like maintaining a level of immunity to it is required to function.

If you knew the person i was talking about, the 62 year old, he's a feature of the local pickup scene for years. The man is almost an institution, a playground legend. He's almost loved here. I honestly admire the man and i would even say i find his love for the game infectious. He hasn't got athleticism or even skill but he loves to play basketball and everyone just humours him but not having played with him in a year or two, i was surprised how much better he has got .. or perhaps how bad i have gotten at the same time, and how troubling i found it to be beaten by him .. not beacuse he's white .. but because he was really really bad .. like just terrible and now he was absolutely demolishing me. And having said that, it'snot like he's suddenly now a good player .. he's still bad .. but he beat me bad. But i couldn't have even tried to beat him in a competive sense .. i have a bit too much respect for him as a opponent to humiliate him? i dont know, it wasn't a competitive situation, i played with restraint but i'd expect to beat him easily even without trying. I'd never say he's bad because he's white .. it's not a factor (in this case). If his race was relevant that would be different. I guess if i was to flesh this out fully .. a 62 year old brown man or black man .. that would not make it any different in my eye, the age and fatness would be the main thing here.

Also i'm not good at dealing with racism .. but ive been trying to dispower it .. maybe it's a complex thing that needs way too much nuance to be careless like in this case.

Played 1v1 today with this over weight 62 year old white man. he beat me both games .. lol. prep is going great

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