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Today:

Practice x2 hours. Ran all drills, was throwing pretty well, ankle felt solid. Didn't scrimmage at the end until the very end when people were leaving and I just went in in sneakers and jogged. Warm body. Upshot: I'm slow as crap and out of shape but I can do this. 

Then

warm up
shoot hoops x10 mins
mobility

work
bench 5x185, 3x195, 5x205 -- should have gotten more but after practice... I'm not too pissed
DB row 3x10x60/ea

cool down
stretch

Also, what forum was that on?

definitely a hard dunker, but people weren't "awe'd" by his dunks because of his vert.. wasn't as impressive.. it's like if you see scottie pippen vs james white dunk.. james white just blows your mind, scottie pippen just dunks it hard with way less vert.

True, his arms were long as shit so he got away with less vert. Still, he did quite a lot of dunking on fools in his career. That's tight regardless of how high you get up.

And come on, that FT line dunk is awesome.

Thanks. Looks promising for travel.

For home use, do you prefer the foam roller or the tiger tail, or is each tool superior to the other for certain areas?

Foam roller superior for hamstrings, ITB, glutes and back. Tiger tail superior for quads and lower legs. Sitting or lying with the foam roller close to COG is easy, sitting or lying with it farther away is harder. Quads are probably a wash, actually, now that I think about it. But for lower legs, Tiger Tail ftw.

How does the tiger tail compare to the foam roller in terms of efficacy?

From my ten minutes or so messing with the thing, it has pluses and minuses.

Pluses: you can really control where you're applying pressure and how much pressure you're applying; it's portable
Minuses: it's awkward to reach and apply enough pressure to some places (hamstrings, for example) because of the angle you have to work with

The upshot is that it seems like a really useful tool with some limitations.

Thanks fellas.

In other news, I used a "Tiger Tail" last night for the first time. Gonna have to get me one of those at some point. For the time being foam roller + lacrosse ball works great but the roller is, um, kind of hard to carry around. I continue to love my gym. Cool people all around.

http://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Tail-Rolling-Muscle-Massager/dp/B000FE82QU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1281714837&sr=8-1-catcorr

I cannot comment on how well rated he is, but those were some sick dunks, for a fool of a Took, that is.

By underrated I mean that no one talks about Scottie Pippen as a great dunker cause he never won any contests or anything. But as an in-game dunker he was a god damn menace.

And even when he was in contests, he got fucked over by the judges. Case in point, this filthy free-throw-line jam from the 1990 Slam Dunk Contest did not get a 50, while Jordan's more stylish and more famous but shorter dunk did:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSme4QmiLcs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSme4QmiLcs</a>

Joe pretty much nailed it with that Madonna picture. POW camp status, coming up.