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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: January 07, 2014, 04:21:14 am »
Same here ^^^

I wonder from a strength standpoint, what is the limiting factor? Calf strength, quad strength, glute strenght? Just overall leg strength?

I guess the calves load a ton on these.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: January 07, 2014, 01:05:06 am »
I know... that's so terrible it's just crazy. But I just can't understand the movement. And because I've always jumped off my left leg 32059358958 times in always the same pattern, and never off my right... I just can't understand the movement. I don't know what to do with the arms either. If I use the double arm swing I overload my knee every single time (same in a one-leg vert to the rim). It's like a dance, basically, for me. I just don't get the movement itself.

Remember the specialization thing we talked about? This ^^^ displays it perfectly.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 07, 2014, 01:02:30 am »
Yeah I think you're exactly right entropy. In fact, to think of it... that's the reason. If you have a lot of upperleg strength and you're weak in the lowerleg department... then you will tend to look like you do. That's a big no-no in my books.

Not only that, but will put you in the position of a possible injury because you will exert power from the upperlegs but have ankle collapse lower down the chain, which in turn will stress the knee.

So... the barefoot running idea is a very good one (I do it on the track). And anything else that loads up these calves while being in a dorsiflexed position is great too (consecutive jumps, ankle bounces, line hops, rudiment hops, sprints, high hurdles etc).

If I were you I'd probably do barefoot sprinting and double leg bounds + rudiment hops at the end, with emphasis on staying on the ground as little as possible.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 07, 2014, 12:56:42 am »
Damn, PR tie off four? Never tried jumping off all four :D

Anyway, it seems your strength is carrying over to your jumping more and more. Sounds like improvements in movement efficiency to me.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 06, 2014, 07:07:50 pm »
To me, entropy's biggest problem is neither of these things discussed here... I have to be honest... he just LACKS LIFE so to speak.

Whenever I see a recording with him... he's walking around very slowly and his jumps look like a 60 year old guy tries to jump. I hope entropy (or anybody else) doesn't hate me for saying this but... that's what I think.

Until he won't try to be more aggressive and FASTER... I just don't see how this will work out. Maybe he'll be OK off a standing vert or something but of a running (walking) jump in his case...

Entropy buddy... you need to put out some life out there man. Seriously. You can't just walk around and jump like someone forces to do it and you hate it, and then expect to have results.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: January 06, 2014, 06:58:18 pm »
Yeah the LRLR bounding is sooooooooo difficult for me to understand. Instead, a LLLL bound is easier form-wise.

I am much worse than acole is:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho3JljB4d2Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho3JljB4d2Y</a>

Granted these are from years ago, but I will do them the same if I try to do them now. Just horrible.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 05, 2014, 05:02:05 am »
Yeah but the 10 foot rim for Stoudemire is like a 9 footer (or less) for us.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 04, 2014, 02:10:55 pm »
Yeah but it's better to specialize yourself if your only goal is dunking. So if all you want is dunk, you gotta make up your mind what kind of plant you want to use and only practice that endlessly. Eventually you should be able to do it.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 03, 2014, 11:55:11 am »
For me, if I jump off one leg WITH the ball in hand I get much higher than doing anything else. That includes jumping off one leg WITHOUT the ball and jumping off one leg with the ball in both hands... there's a BIG difference.

Why? Because I have always tried to dunk off one with one hand, thousands of times. And I'm the best at doing that.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 03, 2014, 10:36:30 am »
Hey Adarq check PM, thanks!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: December 30, 2013, 01:45:40 pm »
Good stuff... you keep doing what you're doing because you're on the right path, especially recently.

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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: December 24, 2013, 09:53:24 am »

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 23, 2013, 03:00:41 pm »
Whenever I see "entropy" posted something I think of this guy:

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

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 23, 2013, 03:07:57 am »
One of the main reasons some strong people suck at one leg jumping is because they let their calves "fall behind". The calves are less adaptable in terms of strength gains and if you gain weight, gain quad mass, gain glute mass, get hamstring mass, you name it, and get "strong" (while also getting heavier), you will have a higher relative squat to bodyweight ratio but you will collapse in a high speed one-leg jump plant because the calves are the ones that didn't grow at the same rate.

And since that happened, then you will experience ankle collapse that will feel like the quads are giving out or the knee itself gives out.

So it's a bit counter intuitive because you'll think the quads aren't doing their job, when in reality the quads are overloaded by the ankle collapse.

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Article & Video Discussion / Delayed potentiation by walking (Kelly)
« on: December 20, 2013, 08:25:45 pm »
http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/delayedpotentiation.html

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