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god i wanna do 5/3/1 so, so bad.

35''.....  Your reach is about 1 inch below mine right?   At 35'' I think you might need to start practicing boune dunks or catching alley-oops no?  That's gotta be a decent distance above the rim... With a deload and a small cut I imagine you can't be that far off...

WEIGHT: 174.5
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- jumps x 30 minutes or so
got a couple of solid clean dunks with the mini soccer ball and a few more with the dodgeball. easily in the 34-35 range, so not at PR-tie levels. pretty good. touched rim several times off right SLRVJ, missed each try (of four) off left. SVJ during warm up was barely 30 or just below.

- superset x 5
-- DB swing 45 x 10
-- inverted row x 10 (alternated pronated/supinated grip)
-- dip x 8
minimal rest between exercises/sets

- decline sit up 18 x 10,10,10

- stretch

great workout, was just expecting to do the DB swing circuit and some core stuff to get the juices flowing but the court was empty when i got there. score one for luke. did a lot of jumps, clear drop off toward the end but could still consistently get 33. peak not there, though.

^^^so i hope. on that note, i took a pic of my hand so you can see the progression of my "normal" jump, i.e., the height i can get on an average day. the callouses, from where i grab the rim, tell the story. mid-palm is not a callous yet, just a little scrape in the middle there.

You only really need to get your thumb over the rim to "dunk" it, and obviously synchronize the jump with the lob perfectly.

Agree.
But you need to get the whole palm above rim to dunk it instead of "dunking" it. You can get some "dunks" in being at a 10'5'' 10'6'' touch. It would be either a perfect lob that you slapped in, or being able to palm the ball really good and at the edge of your fingers and sync everything perfectly to break the wrist at the tiny time window that the ball is above the rim. But to dunk-dunk, you must be able to get at least 8'' above the rim. I used to lose most of the dunks when i was jumping 8'' above rim actually,  i would land like 1 out of 10. I needed to be at 9''-10'' above to make almost every attempt.
Just 2c from my n=1.

Some related stuff about those last couple inches and how much above you need to be : http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/lastlittlebit.html

I am sure i have posted it again and you have read it too back then but oh, well! 

Some related stuff about those last couple inches and how much above you need to be : http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/lastlittlebit.html

I am sure i have posted it again and you have read it too back then but oh, well! 

thanks vag, i'd read that before but not in a long time. i've been breaking down my approach, as you know, and it's helped a lot. this gives another way to do that, which i'll try next time i'm jumping. i'm obviously a hop jumper.

@chris, i'm sure you're right! at the moment, though, "dunking" at all will feel like the apex of my life.

Maybe continuing to practice will make you a 1-2 plant jumper over time and that will give you the extra 1-2 inches.