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I had a dream last night that I went to a party with Nightfly and some other people in a car, and the party was being held in an abandoned industrial zone. Everything broken down etc.

So we entered the "building" and we were given, each one of us, one wooden baby dummy. The guy who gave it to us told us that we need it later when we're going to break beer bottles with it (?).

And then as the party went on I started to feel strange, a lot of weird punkers and people with drugs were there, so I wanted to leave. Moving on through the building I entered a room, a gigantic room that looked like a supermarket, and there were just TURTLES with names attached to them on the neck, and also leashes around the neck. Those were former people that used to party in that building and they were transformed into turtles.

So once I entered the room all the turtles started moving and falling off the shelves and coming towards me. The end.

Well, they open if you click on them...

I haven't watched football (or soccer as you call it) in such a long time... but this was a very good game to watch.

You bet it would. It's nothing you can really control though, but it's not very common as well.

I think he made them with a marker

He appreciates you (adarqui) and foreign people more than he does anybody in Romania because you actually help people, while here people hate on people and are just plain retarded.

So I guess that was the thing, I bet nobody had any idea what that writing meant anyway, but you couldn't expect anything else from them.

Thing is - everybody here either has the VJ or they don't. Nobody trains for it, and people that do train usually train with me.

That's has been my problem all my jumping life: I can't amortizate in the quads. I might have faulty mechanics and overload the quads too much in the plant, but they ARE the limiting factor because they limit my ability to use momentum. You don't really need to be able to put out THAT much force voluntarily if you can use the accumulated kinetic force during the run-up in your plant.

But in order to do that you need to be able to stop the forward momentum and make it convert into upward thrust. To do that you need the best brakes in the world. The brakes are the quads because they prevent the knee collapse. So basically you need great quad eccentric strength to decelerate.

That's why I'm trying to forcefully decelerate after sprints... to learn to manage the high quad eccentric load... kind of like in a depth jump. I remember Adam Linkenauger recommending against a quick deceleration after a sprint as it might be injurious... but I kind of use that as an exercise in itself.

Is it just me or all these guys put in A LOT of quad in their jumps? Looks like a lot of knee stress as well.