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of those, sleep is probably the most important. sleep sleep sleep sleep is everything.

and don't sleep on chocolate milk. 

using the standard of "whole palm over rim" to be able to put down a well-timed lob, i am 1" away. and given that rattled-home weak sauce still counts for me as goal achieved, i think i could have done that on saturday.

Getting PR jumps / clean dunks with a soccer ball in hands is awesome! Can you palm it so well that you can do a full arm swing with it in your hand? I lose a couple of inches when i have to hold the ball because of the limited armswing.
Do you have any hopes of palming a basketball? Soccer ball ain't that far off bball. If you pick one with very good traction and only use it indoors you might have a good chance of dunking it already. Or just try, even when you lay it in or back rim it or even get stuffed, my experience is that it is a huge motivation boost, makes you push with all you got to get that last inch when you realize how close you are.

the soccer ball is a little bit deflated and nice tacky surface, so i can use a full arm swing. i will never be able to palm a basketball enough to get the full arm swing. tried palming a slightly deflated one with good grip yesterday and while i can hold it steady and move it around a little, a full-force arm swing would send it flying.

if internet gurus and common sense are to be believed, it seems like you're not getting enough pulling volume for all the pushes you do. lots of bench variations, dips, etc. but not a lot of rows or pull ups or chin ups. just an observation.

raptor have you tried, on jump shots, focusing primarily on flexing your glutes from the bottom of the knee bend through the wrist snap? i find that that really helps my form.

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee; neck achey and still; cold
MENTAL STATE: okay

- warm up

- depth jump @18" x 5,5,5,5

- stretch

culture does play a really important role in getting lots of kids into athletics, and i'm sure that's part of why the USA is so good at sports. we're also a huge and very rich country with a lot of genetic diversity. none of that hurts, either.

it's funny to see you talk about us as having an especially physical culture, though. i grew up thinking that australians were the most sporty, active people in the world! meanwhile the US is near the top of the world in obesity and overweight.

i pass up social stuff all the time because it's more important to me to train. multiple times a week i do that.

ONE TIME i decide to do something social on a night when i'd planned to work out doesn't mean i'm a fat person eating pizza and milkshakes every day and wondering why i don't lose weight.

my "rants" about genetics are not rants. they're just observations. i am not a genetically elite athlete, in no single aspect of athleticism am i really elite. the overwhelming majority of people on earth are not, either. chris is an elite leaper, and that's a product of him working hard and being gifted in the first place. i could take a break from life, hire a coach, train my ass off for two years, and still not jump as high as he can. that is life. doesn't mean i can't jump higher than i do, or that i'm near my ceiling. but saying that some people have higher ceilings than others is beyond obvious, i don't really get what the objection is.

EDIT: sorry for the journal hijack, chris.