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Do you really think it's a strength thing? I'm willing to bet it's more a matter of skin quality vs. ball quality. I have some balls of different materials that I can palm, let go of them and catch in mid-air again, and others that I can't palm at all, no matter what, because they just are made of slippery materials or they have dust on them.

You can try to use some handball ball wax if you're not "afraid" of getting your hands dirty (and the ball for that matter) a bit. So basically, you can do that and practice your dunks with a ball with more grip ...

Ways to increase grip are just deadlifting (grip will increase because of the isometric hold of the bar), stuff like holding water blottles or kettelebell handles or even dumbbells only with the tip of your fingers for time, a few inches off the ground etc.

ohh i didn't know that it refers to maximum repetion. i'll find out which is my 1 rm

What did you figure then? That number, if not 1RM, could've been anything. So how did you come up with 55 kg?

1RM = one repetition maximum, which is with how much weight can you do one rep of an exercise, in this situation, of the squat.

So if you squat 60 kg for 5 times, there's no way you can only do 1 rep with 55 kg (well duh! )

I read that, but I find it hard to believe.

How is your 1RM 55 kg, when you can squat 60 kg for 5 reps?

60x5 gives you a projected 1RM of 68 kg according to http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/OneRepMax.html

ass tall as me

Boy, would I love to see that!

Quote from: Raptor on February 15, 2011, 02:56:32 am

Well yeah, you don't. He's more of a unilateral jumper (like, much more) and the special thing about him are probably his tendons/tendon stiffness, but he also has great strength. It depends on how you define "strength" though. I mean, he was doing stepups with 200 kg at 70 kg bodyweight.

He's very technically sound and has extremely good take-in put-out elastic ability.

Yeah I know he's very strog (especially at step-ups) So he would most likely be good at the standing jumps, but he isn't. So imo it's not very much relation between the standing jumps and the ones with a run-up. Although, it's probably just a benefit being good at both! 

(His tendon stiffness is a result of the training he's been doing though the years, and not something he was born with)

Well know you're quoting that german documentary that compared Holm with Donald Thomas. You can choose to believe them or you can choose not to believe them. Just because they say it's not a natural born ability doesn't really mean it's written in stone and that they are absolutely true.

But yeah, jumps and plyos will stiffen your tendons. You still want some tendons to be stiff and some to be compliant. It's just important which are which.

Anyway, good step-up strength is specific to the one leg jump not the standing jump (when it comes to angles, muscle involvement etc) so they hardly correlate to the standing jump. Also, he's probably so used to the prestretch and preactivation using a high speed amortization phase that he isn't fond at all of using a slower/more muscle bound jump like a standing VJ. At the same time, there's more quad involved in a standing VJ than posterior chain, and that's probably a reason as well (he probably has a better developed posteroir chain than quads).

Yeah, whenever I see Daminez do these flips I'm like oh man, if I'd be able to do these I'd probably be flying.