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Aren't you going to get arrested for carrying a knife on the streets? It's illegal in Romania. Knives, swords etc are called "white weapons" and are illegal.

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I like it, he removes the hip extension part from the lift and basically uses the whole body, without the hip extension. Now that's innovation.

It's fake. Those were plastic plates.

You eat sweat? Oh boy!

I usually try to smell sweat from guys that are roiding in my gym, hopefully that carries on into my bloodstream as well. Next thing you know, it's  time.

Quote from: Raptor on December 13, 2010, 07:43:29 am

I wonder if this method can make the deadlift more posterior chain oriented. For a guy like me who "wants" to use his quads at everything, maybe doing this could make me shift more into posterior chain work during deadlifts.

try it out, tell me how it goes, i need to get myself a 45deg hyper to play around with that stuff again.

if yall ever find a good cheap used one, link me up.

Try jumpusa. They must have one.

You ate dunks?

The only thing I see wrong with the run up is that you stay too tall. Then the last say 2-3 steps are very good. But you don't seem to benefit from all of the steps before at all... you don't take in energy from those to release it in the plant.

I have a feeling you'd jump as high just with a three step approach.

You still plant much better than me off two feet, great compression.

Very very quick jump

Raptor, about the hip bend, I think it is in part due to genetics/limb structure. If you lok at the way cskin walks, his legs are slightly pointed outwards, meaning he has a glute preference. People with straighter legs, or legs pointed inwards may use the deeper quad bend more. Examples include Guy dupuy, maybe adarqui, AUT, myself.. it's hard for me to throw my legs out to much actually

I'm not sure about that. I still think Adarqui could get higher with more posterior chain, he's currently destroying his knees, (they look to be under extreme tension when he jumps judging by their position) in my opinion because of this high dependence on quads and their usage in jumping. To me, that's sub-optimal biomechanics. I know I'm on an island while saying what I'm about to say, but I don't really think it depends that much on the individual.

Yes, it does depend on the individual, but I think more in strength than in structure. I think in terms in structure the body will alter the jump stance (feet wider apart) and stuff like that, rather than muscle involvement. Muscle involvement depends on strength IMO.