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right knee feels wonky this morning, going to postpone weights until tomorrow.

good enough for me.

Cool, that's what's important. To me, that kind of dunk has no meaning.

Because they're nice to look at etc. But from a personal perspective (me doing them) ... I just don't care.

btw fuck all you hos with your "only in-game dunks are worthwhile" shit. if i ever dunk, it will be in perfect conditions with myself or someone else lobbing the ball and no one else on the court. that will be good enough for me.

LOL.  And once you do that.... You will salivate at the idea of doing it in different conditions and start playing pickup basketball and following every single missed shot with a run-up and rim hang, hoping to get the right moment.  Then once you get one of those you will start cherrypicking hoping to get a breakaway dunk...  You will keep improving and wanting more cause thats the mindset of an athlete and that's what got you here in the first place. 

Don't you already have a 36 inch vertical jump?  If so can't you already throw down the perfect lob?  IMO it would be more impressive to see you touch 10'5 or 10'9 or whatever is sorta equivalent to that feat.

Quote from: LBSS on July 31, 2013, 11:08:56 am

btw fuck all you hos with your "only in-game dunks are worthwhile" shit. if i ever dunk, it will be in perfect conditions with myself or someone else lobbing the ball and no one else on the court. that will be good enough for me.

LOL.  And once you do that.... You will salivate at the idea of doing it in different conditions and start playing pickup basketball and following every single missed shot with a run-up and rim hang, hoping to get the right moment.  Then once you get one of those you will start cherrypicking hoping to get a breakaway dunk...  You will keep improving and wanting more cause thats the mindset of an athlete and that's what got you here in the first place. 

Don't you already have a 36 inch vertical jump?  If so can't you already throw down the perfect lob?  IMO it would be more impressive to see you touch 10'5 or 10'9 or whatever is sorta equivalent to that feat.

oh for sure, but i'm saying that for now, i'll be happy to just dunk a ball off a lob. that will equal mission accomplished, and that's my point. my mission, with all the deviations and false starts and whatnot i've had over the past few years, has been to dunk. dunking means pushing a ball down through the hoop from above the hoop. anything beyond that is gravy.

my DLRVJ right now is garbage because of months of insufficient practice because of lack of court access. i'm starting to fix that, belatedly. all-time PR was about 35", enough to dunk a dodgeball but not enough to put a basketball in off a lob.

It's alright you'll get back to where you were and beyond. You've been up to 35" before so you know what your body is capable of. Plus you're still only in your 20s so you've got plenty of time!

Wow... that's so out of order in my books.

For me it was dunk a volleyball, then dunk a basketball (all off the dribble) then dunk in game which became kinda easy (in a half court game) at ten feet. It's all about how good of a grip the ball (and my skin) has. That's it.

But I'm a one-leg jumper.

If I try to do any "trick" dunk other than my usual one-leg one-hand dunk I jump 8 inches lower or so. I load TOTALLY different in my jumping leg than in my often-practiced dunk.