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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: October 05, 2015, 10:32:43 am »
oh my god someone please get UNLV to set up the quarter on the backboard and see if he can do it once and for all.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 05, 2015, 10:23:28 am »
thanks for the feedback y'all. i posted these mainly as a record of what it looks like when my approach is off or bad. the problem is that i wasn't adding speed with each step -- you guys notice the pause on the last step but what sticks out to me is how high i was on the first couple of steps. instead of leaning in i was bouncing too much, or "floating" as i put it yesterday. then when i got to the last step i had to kind of hesitate to get low enough to actually jump up.
i don't know whether the hamstring stuff has had any effect, i haven't really done enough yet to tell. will continue with it for a while. i'm off weighted reactive/explosive stuff for a bit still given what i did to my back a few weeks ago. but it's worth thinking about depth drops in addition to depth jumps.
i don't know whether the hamstring stuff has had any effect, i haven't really done enough yet to tell. will continue with it for a while. i'm off weighted reactive/explosive stuff for a bit still given what i did to my back a few weeks ago. but it's worth thinking about depth drops in addition to depth jumps.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 04, 2015, 08:21:01 pm »
today's crappy jumps
jumps are at 0:13, 0:32, 0:59, 1:37, 2:20, and 3:07 in this one:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e85qiWMIa5g" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e85qiWMIa5g</a>
jumps are at 0:26, 1:18, 2:04, and 2:22 here:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkESErcxekw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkESErcxekw</a>
as i noted above, after watching these i corrected the little floaty whatever i was doing on the first couple of steps and things got a little better. still not a good day. the short-approach jumps (one and two steps) were not bad, ~33. i just don't think i got over 34 or 34.5 tops the rest of the time.
jumps are at 0:13, 0:32, 0:59, 1:37, 2:20, and 3:07 in this one:
jumps are at 0:26, 1:18, 2:04, and 2:22 here:
as i noted above, after watching these i corrected the little floaty whatever i was doing on the first couple of steps and things got a little better. still not a good day. the short-approach jumps (one and two steps) were not bad, ~33. i just don't think i got over 34 or 34.5 tops the rest of the time.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Eric's Journal
« on: October 04, 2015, 06:26:26 pm »
lol'd hard at your review of the froning movie.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 04, 2015, 06:21:24 pm »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: very good
- warm up
- DLRVJ x ~10-12
not great but that's to be expected after such a long layoff (>2 weeks) from ME jumping. reinforced the need to practice multiple times per week, i was floating the first couple steps until i took a break and watched vid (will post later). corrected the float and attacked a bit better after that.
- squat 275 x 3,3,3
short rests. solid but not explosive.
- superset x 3
-- DB OHP 50s x 6
-- pull up +10 x 6
- DB shrug 65s x 12,12
- stretch
i need to squat and jump multiple times per week to feel good and jump consistently. unfortunately, i'm heading to tajikistan and afghanistan later this week for a couple of weeks. i'll be in dushanbe for part of that time with access to the meh gym in the hotel, but for a lot of the trip i'll be out in the mountains and will have to resort to bw stuff and SL pogos and the like. guess i'll use it as a conditioning block.
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: very good
- warm up
- DLRVJ x ~10-12
not great but that's to be expected after such a long layoff (>2 weeks) from ME jumping. reinforced the need to practice multiple times per week, i was floating the first couple steps until i took a break and watched vid (will post later). corrected the float and attacked a bit better after that.
- squat 275 x 3,3,3
short rests. solid but not explosive.
- superset x 3
-- DB OHP 50s x 6
-- pull up +10 x 6
- DB shrug 65s x 12,12
- stretch
i need to squat and jump multiple times per week to feel good and jump consistently. unfortunately, i'm heading to tajikistan and afghanistan later this week for a couple of weeks. i'll be in dushanbe for part of that time with access to the meh gym in the hotel, but for a lot of the trip i'll be out in the mountains and will have to resort to bw stuff and SL pogos and the like. guess i'll use it as a conditioning block.
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Tennis / Re: The FEDERER Thread
« on: October 04, 2015, 09:51:35 am »
read the NYT article you linked to. i didn't mean you should be stiff all the way through (although i'm a bad enough player that i tend to do better with a stiff wrist), just that at the moment of impact you have to hold on real tight. no disagreement.
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Tennis / Re: The FEDERER Thread
« on: October 02, 2015, 07:21:47 pm »
i dunno man, being able to turn a 90 mph forehand around with power and control seems like it'd require an iron grip, no matter how relaxed it feels. the racket can't be loose in your hand or the ball would just spray off somewhere.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 02, 2015, 06:22:43 pm »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee but not as bad
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
full-court layups x a lot, right knee started bugging a bit
- DLRVJ x some
knee not so bothersome on these but legs were a bit dead. failed to touch rim on first SJV although got it comfortably on the second. still that's the first time i've SVJ'd under 30 in a while. 33 off one step, which is okay. could not get the dodgeball down off a full run up after several tries and knee was meh so i bagged it and went back to layups and shooting around.
- stretch
bout 50 minutes soup to nuts, left because gym was closing. keep grinding.
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee but not as bad
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
full-court layups x a lot, right knee started bugging a bit
- DLRVJ x some
knee not so bothersome on these but legs were a bit dead. failed to touch rim on first SJV although got it comfortably on the second. still that's the first time i've SVJ'd under 30 in a while. 33 off one step, which is okay. could not get the dodgeball down off a full run up after several tries and knee was meh so i bagged it and went back to layups and shooting around.
- stretch
bout 50 minutes soup to nuts, left because gym was closing. keep grinding.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: October 02, 2015, 12:22:41 pm »good old rutgersdunker, still a beast.
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Tennis / Re: The FEDERER Thread
« on: October 02, 2015, 08:44:33 am »
the one-handed backhand is so beautiful. him and wawrinka both. grip strength must be off the charts to pull that off the way they do. i occasionally switch to it and it's so much harder than two-handed.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Eric's Journal
« on: October 01, 2015, 11:55:45 am »
sounds like you had a fever?
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Tennis / Re: The DJOKOVIC Thread
« on: October 01, 2015, 11:12:39 am »
he is so amazing. adarq have you ever been to a pro tennis tournament? i really recommend it, the venues are so small and you can often get right up to the fence on the practice courts and watch the pros warm up and stuff. i went to the legg mason a couple years ago (now called the citi open, i think) and was like a few feet from david nalbandian and james blake, not to mention a bunch of other top-200 pros, who are all insanely good at tennis. like the 150th-ranked player in the world is incredible. gives even more appreciation for djokovic, federer, murray, and the others who reach the top of the mountain.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: October 01, 2015, 11:06:23 am »
hahahaha i have the same RVJ as vince carter. sure would be nice to reach 17" higher than i do.
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Tennis / Re: The FEDERER Thread
« on: October 01, 2015, 10:27:56 am »
top-5 favorite athlete to watch of all time.
also the subject of a great, great essay by david foster wallace: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
also the subject of a great, great essay by david foster wallace: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 30, 2015, 08:18:59 pm »
took my dad to the gym today because him falling and breaking his wrist at the beach finally threw the light switch that getting stronger is gonna be pretty important as he gets older. was great, i took him through a warm up, some basic lower bodyweight stuff and a couple of machines and then we stretched. his wrist is still much too fucked up to do much upper stuff but that's okay. wouldn't call it a workout but i got an hour of moving around and doing some mobility and stretching in.
my right knee felt fine all day until, after he left, i went back to do shoot around and do some jumping. it started hurting as i was walking back into the gym.
i'm starting to wonder if these intermittent pains are psychosomatic somehow. the damn thing still hurts as i type this. wtf.
EDIT 10/1:
RE: psychosomatic. thought about it more last night and this morning. my knee still hurts today, although not as badly. but i wonder if a lot of the lifetime of odd, apparently idiopathic aches and pains that i've had since i was a little kid is somehow related to fear of athletic inadequacy or underachievement. this is related to the realization i had toward the end of college that i'd really coasted through most of my life to that point: school was easy, tests were easy, i'm naturally "smart," without trying, in ways that society rewards, i'm good-looking, and to some degree i'm funny and personable. also white, straight, middle class, and a dude. everything is easy.
athletically, getting good enough to compete (but not win very much) at a high level of fencing was easy in middle school and high school. same for ultimate frisbee, at which i got competent but never great, despite having the basic tools to do so.
BUT.
but.
all that shit made me feel like a wuss. i got good enough grades, but my friends who got straight A's in college because they worked hard absolutely awed me. there is something special and amazing about putting your ego on the line to get really good at something, to try really hard and accept the possibility that your best effort might fail. that is why i started trying to dunk in the first place: it seemed hard and i was very far away from being able to do it. sticking with it all this time, even through all the wheel-spinning and dumb injuries and whatever, feels good even though i haven't gotten there yet.
some of y'all who've been around have heard this story before, but i'm coming back to it because i wonder if all the aches and pains i've had since i was a little kid have been a way for my body and brain to make an excuse for themselves. my shoulder's messed up. back's killing me. i'm getting a sharp pain in my knee on the swing phase. to be fair to myself, i have had my share of certifiable injuries -- separated shoulder, 5-6 ankle sprains, etc., plus arthritis for the past 5+ years -- and so i know what that level of pain feels like and i know that i don't just have a super low pain tolerance or something. but the random aches and pains, the idiopathic injuries like the one i've had the last few days in my right knee, are still beyond my ability to explain. so i wonder if at some subconscious level they're just from a place of fear, of excuse-making for not trying harder.
i doubt that that's the explanation. but it's a thought that's been with me for a long time and one that won't go away.
my right knee felt fine all day until, after he left, i went back to do shoot around and do some jumping. it started hurting as i was walking back into the gym.
i'm starting to wonder if these intermittent pains are psychosomatic somehow. the damn thing still hurts as i type this. wtf.
EDIT 10/1:
RE: psychosomatic. thought about it more last night and this morning. my knee still hurts today, although not as badly. but i wonder if a lot of the lifetime of odd, apparently idiopathic aches and pains that i've had since i was a little kid is somehow related to fear of athletic inadequacy or underachievement. this is related to the realization i had toward the end of college that i'd really coasted through most of my life to that point: school was easy, tests were easy, i'm naturally "smart," without trying, in ways that society rewards, i'm good-looking, and to some degree i'm funny and personable. also white, straight, middle class, and a dude. everything is easy.
athletically, getting good enough to compete (but not win very much) at a high level of fencing was easy in middle school and high school. same for ultimate frisbee, at which i got competent but never great, despite having the basic tools to do so.
BUT.
but.
all that shit made me feel like a wuss. i got good enough grades, but my friends who got straight A's in college because they worked hard absolutely awed me. there is something special and amazing about putting your ego on the line to get really good at something, to try really hard and accept the possibility that your best effort might fail. that is why i started trying to dunk in the first place: it seemed hard and i was very far away from being able to do it. sticking with it all this time, even through all the wheel-spinning and dumb injuries and whatever, feels good even though i haven't gotten there yet.
some of y'all who've been around have heard this story before, but i'm coming back to it because i wonder if all the aches and pains i've had since i was a little kid have been a way for my body and brain to make an excuse for themselves. my shoulder's messed up. back's killing me. i'm getting a sharp pain in my knee on the swing phase. to be fair to myself, i have had my share of certifiable injuries -- separated shoulder, 5-6 ankle sprains, etc., plus arthritis for the past 5+ years -- and so i know what that level of pain feels like and i know that i don't just have a super low pain tolerance or something. but the random aches and pains, the idiopathic injuries like the one i've had the last few days in my right knee, are still beyond my ability to explain. so i wonder if at some subconscious level they're just from a place of fear, of excuse-making for not trying harder.
i doubt that that's the explanation. but it's a thought that's been with me for a long time and one that won't go away.