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nice vid....

man, stuff like this makes you wanna haul ass and move weight for that 40-50" vertical.....jumping in the air and floating like that.......then stuffing the ball in the rim....


sick

same.. vid's like that amp me up.

selfullaah73 = beast.

U crazy, sir 

thanks







8/30/2011

diet = tons of coffee, dunks.............., steak sandwich, running with dog, rested-max=275x8 + NGP=8, tons of ghr's + 3 sets of supine nearly stiff leg hamstring isos until failure



blooper slrvj

Just my luck. When I'm at my best, injuries happen.
Minor ankle sprain today during pick up games. I was able to walk on my feet, it hurts a bit though. I wanted to upload a new video for my birthday (next sunday) with some dunks recorded in trieste also...I just hope to be able to feel fine for friday's planned dunk session.

Bleh :\

damn, sucks :/

take care of it, lots of ice, but don't rush it.. even if you have to shoot the dunks 1 week after your birthday, it'll be fine, and better since you'll be more recovered :F

how old are you going to be again??!?

pc

No room for weak people here. When fair questions are asked and fair points are brought up and you just leave instead of answering them, don't expect any respect.

^^, agreed.. was a valid question (regarding the book).

edit:

also, RJ was real snappy at steven-miller... i understand RJ may not know who steven-miller is, but if he snaps on people like that, I don't see how he'd expect someone like jcsbck not to have a go at him..

jfyi, steven-miller knows his sh*t, helps alot of people, and works his ass off.... his transformation has been & continues to be very impressive.

It's always the people who don't get results that want to change the basics, thinking they are different. How about you increase your relative strength in the squat and stay active by jumping a lot and then see if you jump higher


Of course you're done RJ. You're mad because nobody is kissing your ass here like they used to on dbhammer. It's different on this site. We're sick of people talking as if they were gurus yet haven't done anything themselves or trained anyone. Your strength levels may be impressive compared to people on here, but let's not forget you have pretty good genetics for strength. I believe you said you bench pressed 300+ when you were 17 after only a few months of training. That's a feat that takes most people years, and probably a feat you're bs-ing just like your power snatches.

It's different here than on dbhammer. People actually get results here (for the most part). They get these results by sticking to the basics. There's no room here for "gurus" such as yourself who change their mind about what is optimal every week, and claim it's backed by science yet haven't actually seen it work themselves. People like you (and the rest of the guys from dbhammer) try to over complicate everything and that's why you get nowhere.


And of course you ignore all my posts again.

people from dbhammer don't last very long here... if dbhammer forum was still alive, sickenin vendetta would be a respected guru on that forum, he'd be having the time of his life posting there.

lmfao

What if we go the other way around? Say, with an easier exercise like the leg press vs the squat? The leg press doesn't require any stabilization that you require in the squat just as the BSS or lunge requires less stabilization vs the shrimp.

So far, less need for stabilization was actually better.

well i mentioned specificity, that solves this argument immediately... leg press has far less specificity than squat, so regardless of how simple an exercise is, to get the most out of your improvements in max strength, the exercise needs to allow you to move the most load possible in a movement pattern most similar to the ones you are trying to improve.. now someone is going to say this "well why not just use jump squats instead of squat"... the key is "moving the most load possible", so jump squat is out of the conversation.. jump squat would be relevant to an explosive strength conversation.. a better argument would be jump squat vs ballistic leg press to improve explosive strength, etc..

we've had these conversations before raptor, and it always ends up with someone trying to become ultra-specific.. for example, to improve jumping, why dont we just do jump squats at 30%? but why 30%, why not 0% since 0% is most specific? that reasoning goes nowhere.. the key is overload.. jump squats have been studied to be most effective at improving vertical jump @ loads of 30%, so we use 30%.. but this is to close a gap between explosive strength & max strength, which IS NOT the issue of this thread.

the issue in this thread is coming up with yet another alternative exercise which is supposed to compete with the basic lifts (squat/lunge/bss/calf raise/ghr).

my legs never wobble when im SLRVJ'n or DLRVJ'n, or sprinting for that matter.. so the increase stabilization argument of the shrimp seems pointless to me.. the increased 'difficulty' of the exercise seems completely pointless to me.. it's cool as an assistance exercise, or just to have fun with, but to replace the basic lifts with? IMO, no way..



lastly, let's not forget that sickenin wasn't even speaking about weighted shrimps like RJ, he was talking about bodyweight shrimps, which should clue you in to his ineffective ideas about training.. he's the same guy who would want to put christmas ornaments dangling from a barbell and forcefully twisted as you squat, so to improve your body's ability to COIL DA ACTIN/MYOSIN HELIX. people should read what he says carefully, and then use it to reinforce their belief in the time tested basics of simple progressive overload with the key exercises (squat, lunge/bss, ghr, calf raise, pullups, dips etc), reactive work (low level through high level), and some explosive work (oly variants or swings), and that's it.

people who are constantly looking for secrets, will never find the answer.

bbl dangling christmas ornaments and christmas lights from my barbell for my twisting lunges session & runup deadlifts :F