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Well Nightfly is. He naturally jumps off one leg although he got great off two feet in time with his maturization, strength training and lowering bodyfat levels. At ~15 years old he had a what, 24 inch two footed vert and now at 22 he has a 42 inch vert off two feet and probably a ~43 off one leg at his maximum, best day.

For me, I have no idea what my 1-leg jump PR is. It kind of varies. It should be around ~36-38 though. I had a moment in the past where I was sick and stayed in bed 3 days, one after another, then as my sickness gone away I went in the park and could barely walk, I was getting tired very very quickly and felt so weak, and then I tried to jump at the rim (just to goof around) and was jumping I think close to 40 inches, I mean WTF? , and hitting my head in the middle of the net at the 2.96 rim. Right now I can just scrape that net with my head but I don't really have the best jumping technique WITHOUT the ball in my hand at this point in time.

So as you can see, weird stuff usually happens with my one leg jump. It depends a lot on fatigue levels (and as silly that was, I think staying 3 days in bed fully rested my leg muscles although you'd expect to suck hard after such an event) more in the 1-leg jump since there's more overload occuring (there's more speed in the plant than in a two-footed jump) and the overload happens for the muscles of 1 leg so that's another point of excessive overload as well.

And frankly, I think the whole key, besides voluntary strength as expressed in the weight room - is to make your body accept VERY HIGH levels of overload without allowing the leg to collapse under such a high stress. Great eccentric strength levels are needed for a great one leg jump and also, the body position in the plant is very important.

My bodyfat levels have decreased lately, but I think I'm around 13%.

And if you think your bodyweight is a variable to minimize for a higher VJ, you are fooling yourself big time.

So if I'm 6'0 and 300 lbs with a 50% bodyfat I shouldn't think my bodyweight is a variable to minimize for a higher VJ?

Quote from: vag on July 22, 2011, 05:25:57 am

Quote from: adarqui on July 21, 2011, 11:34:26 pm

Please explain this pic! 

dno it was after i landed this nasty warmup two hander, which was actually my best dunk make of the night... i didnt have cam on.. then i brought cam out and threw a bad lob and just coasted in the air for head height.. haha

ya i dno wtf is going on there.. oddness

looks dope tho

im going to dunk again tomorrow.. should be interesting... going to use the normal ball, not lob ball.. felt better with normal ball but i let some people use it.

pc man

WTF?

ASS TO TOES!!!

The best thing I've heard all year long

Oh yea, I subscribed to Adam link's vertfreak product.
Went thru 4 emails, alot of selling heehee, but I'm inclined to see it thru.
Heck, I might even buy it if it's reasonably priced!

You western people have a lot of money on your hands don't you?

Quote from: Raptor on July 21, 2011, 05:10:49 pm

How do you strengthen the low abs? Are they being stimulated with ab wheel rollouts?

YES< IF you pull in with the knees if youre doing them kneeling, or pull with the feet if youre doing them standing. most people dont do this and they miss out on some awesome low ab /hf work.  

That's exactly what I'm doing. Not only they help with the abs but also the hip flexors strength which I need for a powerful knee drive in my one leg jumps.

Quote from: Raptor on July 21, 2011, 02:28:53 pm

If you put a bigger and heavier engine in a car, it will have a bigger power production (positive effect) but it will burn more fuel and maybe, due to the higher forces, wear some other components out (negative effect).

So? A car with a really weak motor will still not drive fast, even if other components are at a lower risk for "wearing out".

Of course. That's why I said the positive outweigh the negatives up until a certain point (which people are usually far from).