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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: October 06, 2013, 07:19:04 am »2374
Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: October 05, 2013, 05:15:45 pm »2375
Basketball / Re: check out my bboy stance
« on: October 05, 2013, 04:35:19 pm »
What did you do in terms of core strengthening?
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Basketball / Re: check out my bboy stance
« on: October 05, 2013, 03:24:13 pm »
You probably learned how to maintain the pelvic posture and don't allow IT to collapse.
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Basketball / Re: check out my bboy stance
« on: October 05, 2013, 02:07:59 pm »
Yeah but... remember, the core, if you associate that with the abs, is actually doing hip flexion. So it can't be the core. At best it's the glutes that can't stop the hip flexion from happening eccentrically (can't oppose by firing to hip extend and stop the hip flexion from occuring).
To me... a "running 2-leg jump" is actually me walking towards a spot where I can do a SVJ. So... it "makes sense" to bend forward as in a SVJ. I personally don't "have" a so called "running 2 leg jump". Granted, I haven't trained it too much.
To me... a "running 2-leg jump" is actually me walking towards a spot where I can do a SVJ. So... it "makes sense" to bend forward as in a SVJ. I personally don't "have" a so called "running 2 leg jump". Granted, I haven't trained it too much.
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Basketball / Re: check out my bboy stance
« on: October 05, 2013, 12:59:26 pm »
You definitely hold your breath when you jump, it's one of the reason people make those silly faces when they jump - intraabdominal pressure.
If you were NOT to do that, your pelvis would just rotate around in all kinds of crazy ways. That's why you need the core strength to prevent that from happening. Not only that, but you wouldn't be able to EXPRESS the strength in your other muscles. The amount of core tension signals the CNS to fire (or to not fire) stronger signals to the skeletal muscles.
This is also a matter of positioning (read through Becoming a supple leopard for that).
If you were NOT to do that, your pelvis would just rotate around in all kinds of crazy ways. That's why you need the core strength to prevent that from happening. Not only that, but you wouldn't be able to EXPRESS the strength in your other muscles. The amount of core tension signals the CNS to fire (or to not fire) stronger signals to the skeletal muscles.
This is also a matter of positioning (read through Becoming a supple leopard for that).
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Basketball / Re: check out my bboy stance
« on: October 05, 2013, 12:51:01 pm »
Check out how much you bend over forward when you're doing KB swings... that's what I do when I jump (that's what I FEEL like doing, but I have to actively think to look at the rim to prevent that).
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: October 05, 2013, 12:27:48 pm »Core strength and stability imo. Collapsing at the waist is wasted energy.
I always thought it's a matter of weak quads, so the body wants to recruit the posterior chain more by bending foward and putting tension on the hamstrings/glutes more and relieve the tension off the quads. But it could be so many things.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: October 05, 2013, 11:01:28 am »
I don't get how people maintain such a vertical back when jumping off two... I always have to bend forward at the hips to jump, and almost look to the ground. That's why I'm thinking maybe it would be a good idea for me to do front squats/high bar squats with a more vertical back.
Is it just a matter of lack of quad strength?
Is it just a matter of lack of quad strength?
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Five/Five Brandon Todd
« on: October 05, 2013, 08:08:59 am »
Well, the same good ol' marketing.
