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But as long as I had some deep heavy squatting in my program I could never feel as explosive as without any heavy/slow training,

Have you considered that it could be because you're just tired/sore from the weight training? That would be a pretty reasonable explanation without resorting to the claim that weight trianing isn't helpful when it has been the way almost everyone on this forum who has made big gains has come by them.

but there is a reason why in season athletes don't strength train rigorously.

Yeah, because it would fucking tire them out for their practices and matches and add a needless risk of injury. They should have taken care of their strength requirements in off-season.

if someone can explain in depth how to set up a proper program to avoid competing motor patterns I would be delighted to read it.

Read adarq's ratio method post in the performance blog.

Don't kill the apostrophe. Bring back the diaeresis in places other than the New Yorker.

^^^true, true. reminds me of the gladwell-popularized fact that most NHL players are born in the first third of the year. the theory goes that kids born earlier in the year tend to be older for their grade or division than kids born later in the year. the 9 or 10 months can make a big difference when you're little, so early-birthday kids are overselected for competitive teams because they're just bigger and stronger and more coordinated than kids younger than they are. path dependency takes over and the relatively younger kids never make up the gap.

or so i comfort my november-born, always-one-of-the-youngest-kids-in-the-class self.

I'm going to make sure my kid gets held back in kindergarten

don't you train at Blenderate's gym? Or was it Tigerak's gym? If you go to latter you'll probably see Frank Yang at some point.

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

going camping this weekend with a bunch of bluegrass musicians. 

Have you listened to Yo yo Ma's thing, The Goat Rodeo Sessions? It's really good.

Also Trampled by Turtles are good.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1rwkgCAVsc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1rwkgCAVsc</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35GtZdgffM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35GtZdgffM</a>

ETA: this video badly exacerbates my itch to switch to pure powerlifting.

Main takeaway from this video - if you put a hippy on steroids you get a viking.