141026 Rim 3 still no rim 2 pcs of cake
I spent 1hr and 15 min at rim 3....
from stand still to 1 step to dribble up to self lob.
I COULD NOT land any dunk.
I tried to jump with out ball and i got WAY over the rim, with the whole wrist.
sounds like very good news to me, the "WAY over the rim" part.
Clearly is my technique that is stopping me.
jumping without the ball is just different .. so, surely "technique", but that's why I advocate learning the lob, it makes it much easier to jump near your max (or even at or above your max when everything magically clicks when you chase the ball). As for dribble ups, seems like a very different movement to me.
so, i am happy to see you slowly working on lobs.
i did not want to leave the court.. caz i was sooo dam close...
nice!!
i was 15 min late. and i did not even go to shower.... after this session.
What ended me... is when 2 little kid came to the court... and because all 4 court have kids.. they decide to leave...
and i told the kid.. i am leaving u can have my court.
... so i left.
video in production.. will be ready tonight.
I am so angry... i could not land any dunk today...
that anger can be a good thing.. keep this up and a dunk will land soon.
coach is more focus on my jump with out ball...
but i was more focus in making 1 dunk...
Because it mean progress...
Personally, I agree with your coach. You can try dunking over and over, but I like spending more time focusing on max effort jumps initially, until one can get a ~3 inches or so of wrist over the rim fairly consistently. Then it makes dunking alot easier. Sure, practice some dunks during that time too, but to me, consistently getting ~3+ inches over the rim on max effort jumps is the first step.
I think your definition of progress is skewed.. which is understandable, you want to land this damn dunk already! But, from what i've seen in this post, before the video is uploaded, it sounds like you're making progress for sure. And, i've seen progress in your recent videos, and in your lobs etc.
If 3 months down the road you are getting 4-5" of wrist over the rim on a max jump, and still not landing any dunks, it will be admittedly funny but also sad, yet still motivating & incredible. Though, once you get to that height over the rim, the dunks will land easy, several per session, with some that are absolutely crushed.
Coach keep telling me.
1.9 M world class high jumper weight below 170lbs, why am i weighting at 183lbs.
Again I mostly agree with him here.. You look lean like LBSS said, and you are jumping good right now.. Does one have to be incredibly lean? Definitely not.. Does dropping some fat help? 99.9% of the time, yes. Weight loss isn't "magical", sometimes it doesn't linearly match with vert gains, because we lose muscle too. So maintaining muscle (via lifting and proper diet) is very important. The other thing though, is weight loss can cause ones body to go haywire a bit, so while someone might think "man my jumping sucks as I get lighter" , that's usually just everything being haywire and their body not stabilizing at that weight. That doesn't seem to be happening to you right now, so that's a good thing. But it's also something to keep in mind .. If someone loses fat and maintains muscle, but their vert doesn't go up, it seems more related to their nervous systems being temporarily jacked up.. but that stuff stabilizes eventually, and jumping improves. It can also be a "symptom" of the work involved, losing fat & weight can simply mean a higher volume of "cardio" or things like that.. If weight loss comes from "more jumping (or some basketball)", like it does with alot of these elite obsessed dunkers, then that's the "holy grail" of fat loss for jumping
Anyway, from what I see so far, your coach seems to have you on the right track ... Every coach can chime in and say, you should do X Y Z differently, but he seems to have you on a solid formula: jumping hard & max without the ball, jumping alot, lifting, leaning up a bit etc. He obviously needs to let you get in some good jumps with the ball, but I mean, I usually jumped max without the ball until I felt like I hit my max jumps, then i'd start using the ball & try dunking .. so i'd sacrifice some vert at the end when dunking, to focus more on getting as high as possible without the ball. I feel like that works great, because it gives you more "pure" jump quality in a session.
peace!
