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OK so I have this issue with mobility in my upperbody ever since forever. I cannot shoot from above my head (I have to shoot a basketball from the shoulder), I can't dunk two handed (if I try, I have to have my arms in front of me a bit, not exactly over head) and I can't catch in a clean with the elbows forward BY ANY MEANS. Only with the elbows down.

If I try to shoot a basketball from above the head my arm will just rotate while I'm shooting and airball it 5 meters away from the rim, or if I try to catch with the elbows forward I either have to rotate the elbows out (and even then I can't catch the bar with the elbows up) or if I put one arm with the elbow straight ahead, then the other one has to be with the elbow DOWN, perpendicular to the ground. There's no way in hell that elbow is coming up no matter what you do.

So obviously, these things limit me IMMENSELY, and they always did.

Now the question is - how to correct them. I'm very skeptical of stretching since these issues are so severe (I'm so far away from where I want to get to) that I don't really believe stretching would help but still, any suggestions? Any stretches for this stuff?

I'm not ever aware WHAT is limiting me in the first place. Is it a tight chest? Tight shoulders? Scapula problems (I've had these in the past)? Upperback? It's probably ALL of them.

I'd really appreciate some videos for correcting this.

Make sure when you do ab wheel rollouts to round the back a ton. If you arch it you're going to feel it in the lowerback.

Like this:



http://www.shapeshiftermagazine.com/3/01.htm

What about carrying bags etc for example for school? Some people always carry on the same side all the time, right or left... it can develop some imbalances.

That's correct. Hand size is unimportant unless your hand is so big that I encompasses more than half of the ball. Then yeah, you'd have the ball in your fist.

I can "palm" a regular size ball using 2 fingers if it has the right texture/grip, whereas I have NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER to palm the same size ball, and EVEN SMALLER BALLS (=> same as bigger hands) when the ball doesn't have grip. The end.

If you had longer hands and/or better pinch grip you would be able to palm more worn out balls than you do now, THAT's all there is to it!

NO.

No matter how big my hand size would be, it would still come down to skin quality and "compatibility" of friction with the ball texture.

For example, I can palm some balls and a friend can't palm the balls I can palm, but he can palm some balls I can't palm. The difference? The ball texture. His palm skin has friction with some types of balls, my palm skin has friction with some OTHER types of balls.

Why do I say that palm size doesn't matter?

Because I had a period of time when I couldn't palm my size 5 ball. That's like me having a +4 inches of palm on a regular sized ball or something. It doesn't matter. If it slips, it slips. The end. In fact, if I try to squeeze it more it slips even harder.

Quote from: entropy on August 29, 2012, 01:11:15 am

Quote from: Raptor on August 28, 2012, 12:43:22 pm

Yeah it depends. You could also do a russian plank... both Bret Contreras and Pavel demonstrated that one.

Uh yea I don't have a kettle bell bro.

fucking LOOOOOOOOOOOOLL!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TKktamzq4o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TKktamzq4o</a>

Grab a kettlebell and throw yourself in the water. See how long you can keep a plank there.

For ME, it isn't. I can "palm" some balls with great grip using my thumb and my index finger. It doesn't take any length or grip strength at all. What it takes is friction.

But the "official" old balls I can never palm. Never ever. Too worn-down, can't palm them no matter what. I can't dunk a old ball. And these are the kinds of balls people play with at the park where I used to play.

Luckily, I don't give a shit about retarded basketball anymore.

What about upperbody lifts? Muscle-wise, they wouldn't affect the MSEM sets, but CNS-wise they pretty much would. Obviously you should go more with a lower intensity upperbody stuff if you choose this path IMO.