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squat 305lbs. x7 @ 157lbs bodyweight

That's pretty nasty. Why don't you go negative?

http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/OneRepMax.html says 366 lbs max squat. That's 2.33 X BW.

You still need to drive your "neck" or back of head into the bar in your squats. You have this tendency to lean forward or letting your chest collapse. At least, this is what I constantly see out of your videos. Otherwise, the squat looks better than the last video I saw from you.

You look "heavy" in that video, I'm not kidding or anything, your legs look big or something.

I read that IRC log, no idea what is that all about

PS. Actually I do, but...

Well if he had the strength to safely do off the backboard Avishek drops then he probably could jump pretty high as well is my guess. We all know how efficient bone-wise Avishek drops are.

Weird. Never expected you'd have a different head.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POP_lbTAy5A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POP_lbTAy5A</a>

Maybe, but my point of this thread is that I bend forward at the waist when I jump, not necessarily when I squat. It also happens in the deadlift. I just can't sink well at the hips - I've seen people that do that so well without getting out of position or balance, they just sink into their hips backward with almost no forward knee transition (for an extreme, think Steve Cotter).

If you put me to do that I'd definitely bend forward or I'd fall back. Cotter was talking about the lower abs not firing or something like that to prevent the falling back from happening. So the issue is with jumping... my natural tendency when jumping off two feet is not to throw my legs forward and jump (and involve the hips) but to plant my legs under me as in a standing VJ and jump like that, which automatically means bend at the knees a lot. If I want to jump with hip involvement I have to think about that before the jump (actually before the run-up itself) so it's not natural but voluntary.