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Went and played a little tonight, just a few games and a couple dunks between games at a local gym. Nothing crazy. Helped my lil sis move out of her college apartment (she just graduated last month) and into her new place about two hours away. Tired of driving back and forth. Ugh.

I haven't. I guess I could. The high bar just feels completely natural to me. I'll take a look into some low bar vids and try it out with some light weight next squat session to see how the mechanics are.

Played a few games Thursday (yesterday), just trying to leave all my frustration on the court so I've been playing pretty aggressively this week. Played well so.maybe I should always play aggressive lol! Anyway, jumped some afterwards and tried some new stuff. I think i can get a 360 off a lob but the timing needs to be perfect, I got hung on the front of the rim twice. I'll keep working on it. Here's a ME jump at the end of the games/mini dunk sesh. May be slightly higher than earlier this week.






       
             

Your vert pics are insane. It is a real shame your reach is only 7'6'' at 5'10''.
Who cares though, you are catching half-court oops now! 

Couple quick vids I took yesterday on my phone. 

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgwPvGLdmU0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgwPvGLdmU0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBREL39qGU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBREL39qGU</a>

Was actually pretty happy with these considering how dead my legs felt.

True on the though labyrinth! Well put!

As for the soft dunks. There is technically a 'no dunking' policy but they let it slide for most of the guys that can actually do it. That said I try not to push it . Also,  when I attempt in game dunks I do usually try to dunk harder. I chalk it up to a few things; 1) Im much more aggressive in games, 2) I practice im usually just working on timing and such, 3) I occasionally get hung hard on the rim and if im trying to break the goal it really kills my forearm. Much pain. Other than that idk, its kinda funny because ive always been a semi powerful dunker for my size when messing around on short goals. Hell, I broke a TON when I was younger. Its gotta be psychological.  I shall keep this im mind next time!

I know I said I was taking today off but I got a text from some guys saying they were going to go hoop and I havent seen one guy in a minute so I went.  Played for an hour and a half. Not bad. Dinked around with a couple taller guys afterwards and got back to back two handed tomahawks off the dribble. Incredibly surprised.  I havent been able to do that since pre achilles! Very amped up to be able to do that on sub par feeling legs!!!!

Went and played some full court as usual tonight.  Was feeling unusually bouncy and it showed. Threw down 3 straight dunks off 1 foot between games which is a huge accomplishment for me!! Had two chances at big dunks in games; first was on a 2 on 1 fast break and I was the trailer. I got it tossed off glass to me but my teammate slowed up to euro step before he saw me and it killed my momentum a little. Still got up and went to throw it down and best I can tell/feel I put too much on it (thanks Vag lol) I saw the ball going in and my hand was inside the rim but as I pulled my hand out I hit the ball and it popped out. the guys said I put it off the back of the rim and then it bounced off my hand so I guess I saw it right. It had to look pretty good because I heard two kids start to yell right before it came out. Oh well. Next one was in the half court and I slipped baseline and REALLY got up, like it even FELT like a good jump. Either way the oop came in waaaaaay low (around my chest) and someone tipped it as I was basically trying to windmill it.  Probably would have missed it anyway but it wouldve been nice to try! Not sure exactly how high I got but i was up near the rim enough that the 6'6" d2 player in my team had his jaw dropped all the way down the court.

Overall a pretty good night even though I missed both shots at an in game dunk.