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Article & Video Discussion / Re: short versus tall athletes
« on: February 14, 2011, 05:40:37 am »
Quote from: adarqui on February 14, 2011, 05:14:01 am
i imagine you've gotten:
1. less fit
2. fatter
3. overly strength trained
4. more emo

And you imagine right. The CoolColJ path baby!

Nah, I really need to work on sprints and suicide-like drills/change direction stuff and get lighter. That should be the priority right now and I'm slowly transitioning into that type of work.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Two foot jump technique
« on: February 14, 2011, 05:36:56 am »
Yeah it was visual. He could get about 2 inches over the rim, and then on the 2nd jump, he got almost the whole palm over the rim (definitely over the half of the palm).

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Diary of a female Dunkers. Dedicated to reaching a 36" vert.
« on: February 14, 2011, 05:34:14 am »
28 inches standing vert is nooooot bad at all. Heck, I'm at 28 myself.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Best physique ever!
« on: February 14, 2011, 04:10:23 am »
I'll have sweet dreams from now on. 8)

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 13, 2011, 01:41:12 pm »
Pushing and sprint stance are pretty indicative you "should" plant RL...

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 13, 2011, 11:44:55 am »
Yes it does. I want you to pay attention to your defensive stance, to how you set yourself feet wise to push a heavy object (a car for example), off what leg do you depth drop, with what leg you kick etc. These are all good indicators of what is the "control" or "rotation" leg.

For example, when I defend in the defensive stance, I am positioned in a LR stance so my right arm is forward so I can jump for a block with my right arm forward. When I'm to push a car, I put my left foot forward so I can drive on it, so basically that's also a LR stance. When I depth drop, I drop off the box from the right leg. When I kick, I use my right leg to kick so the left leg is used as a rotation leg (same as in a LR plant).

Like I said, these are good indicators of what your body automatically prefers.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 13, 2011, 07:16:30 am »
By the way, any idea why you don't naturally use a one-leg jump? Lack of practice or other reasons? I mean, at your weight a one-leg jump would be pretty "natural" (if you consider only weight and structure as factors). But then again, Justin Darlington is light as heck and he jump off two.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: The Motivational Thread
« on: February 13, 2011, 05:12:44 am »
Haha you like East 17? I do too :D

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 13, 2011, 05:05:42 am »
There are a handful of LR dunks that if you do right, they look cool. Take a look at Myree Bowden or AUT for examples. Heck, even Kobe.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 12, 2011, 05:59:07 pm »
I agree with what you say... I naturally plant LR, do depth jumps LR etc, but I like to jump RL. It feels "nicer". I have a weaker right leg though. Or, I think so.

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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Norris Hops.
« on: February 12, 2011, 05:57:08 pm »
WTF? :ninja:

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Sprint training
« on: February 12, 2011, 05:14:50 pm »
Well in terms of overall volume I try to keep the depth jumps ground contacts to 40 per week. So 20 in one workout, 20 in the other. Not sure if "ground contact" counts as the landing for the subsequent depth jump as well (so 2 ground contacts for 1 depth jump rep).

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Sprint training
« on: February 12, 2011, 03:40:20 pm »
Well I'd like to do more of a transition from strength to strength-speed and then speed-strength. So basically, the idea is to move from squats to jump squats to depth jumps. I was thinking of combining squat and 1-2 jump squats one day, and the other day 1-2 squats with depth jumps. So strength - strength speed one day, strength speed - speed strength the other (if you consider depth jumps as speed strength).

I could probably do the sprints on Wednesday if I take care and lower the volume of the other stuff the other days so I won't burn myself up with overtraining.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Sprint training
« on: February 12, 2011, 02:20:57 pm »
Thanks Lance. Now the thing is - my right knee won't allow bounds. By bounds I only mean left leg bounds (on the same leg). Right knee does allow sprinting though (or it used to - I don't know right now).

The tough work will be combining depth jumps with sprints and squats and stepups. I'm doing my plyo work on the upperbody days, like this:

Monday: Lance1 upperbody + plyos (depth drops from ~20 inches 2 sets x 4 reps, depth jumps from 12 inches 3x4)
Tuesday: Squat + 1-2 jump squat + calves
Wednesday: REST
Thursday: Lance2 upperbody + plyos (depth drops from ~20 inches 2 sets x 4 reps, depth jumps from 12 inches 3x4)
Friday: Step-ups + split squat jumps + calves
Saturday: 3 on 3 basketball or REST (since I'm destroyed from the workouts)
Sunday: 3 on 3 basketball or REST (since I'm destroyed from the workouts)

Now the question is, where do the sprints come in at this point. Would you eliminate stuff (say, lower depth jump volume to 2x4 and eliminate the drops) and put in some sprints? If so, at what volume?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Sprint training
« on: February 12, 2011, 12:53:19 pm »
I'll start soon to implement sprinting and bounding, and I was wondering if you guys have any "sprint program" in mind. By that I mean a progression into sprints and what kind of sprints should be beneficial to a one-leg jumper. I was thinking any distance (30m, 50m, 100m, 200m) up to 400m.

It's probably smart to gradually increase sprint length, say 3x30m + 2x50m the first two weeks, then move on to longer distance stuff. Not sure how to implement 100/200/400m though. I mean, I get out of breath in 50m sprints, nevermind longer distances.

It's also going to be weird since I also want to continue to strength train and do depth jumps, so I need to be really careful in terms of sprint volume.

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