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I tend to agree with you in large areas of what you said, but I have personally increased a guy's jump instantly by four inches just by hinting what he should do. He has great strength but he was always jumping "weird", quad-driven etc. I just said to him he needs to throw his legs forward more and use his hips instead of just pushing with his quads that much.

And then he just jumped ~4 inches higher immediately. I was like WTF? I mean really, when I think about it now, that should've been even more shocking than it was. So it works for some people. Not sure if it was some placebo effect where he just said to himself "I'm going to jump higher now, this guy knows his stuff so I'll jump higher" and put more effort into his jump (could've been, who knows?) but he did do what I told him to do in terms of technique and got up higher. It's not like he jumped with the same technique as before and got higher.

WHY did Kingfish ever favourite this video?

 

0:17 looks basically perfect to me... and I never say "perfect".

Reactive is what you make of it... "Adarq.org - Dedicated to athletic performance enhancement," ATHLETIC being the key word. No "athletic" positon consists of your ass being lower than your knees, or your knees past your toes. Yes you're right, free squats do strengthen your legs. BUT the risks FAR outweigh the benefits. I'd rather have my knees intact long enough to enjoy the benefits of squatting.

When's the last time you saw a BodyBuilder run the 40? They can't because their joints are destroyed from free squats. (Maybe some roids too.)

This site doesn't know the difference between a Hang Clean and a Power Clean.

You're either a troll or like - very stupid. I mean that sincerely. I wouldn't lie to you.

So, first you take a sentence that talks about reactivity and then YOU talk about ass to grass squats. What's the connection of that with reactivity? You can be reactive regardless of squat depth. So you either don't know what the word reactive means, or you're just... crazy.

Then you say above parallel squats are safer for the knees than full squats. I'll let others address that.

Bodybuilders have joints destroyed from full squats? It's intersting since the bodybuilders are the ones who usually quarter squat most of the time. And roids destroy joints? I was under the impression that they are prescribed after joint surgeries sometimes to help heal joint damage.

A hang clean is a "full" clean from the hang. A power clean is a clean with a high catch that is generally more specific to athletics since the goal is not to move a great weight on a short rom (as in a regular clean) but to move a "decent" weight over a longer ROM (for athletic benefits).

There are lots of clean and snatch variations: hang clean, hang power clean, power clean, clean, clean and jerk, jerk, powerjerk (well not really, but that could be reserved to you).

PS. Watch any great dunker and you'll see the knees going in front of their toes. Is that "100% healthy"? I don't know, especially at those velocities/power. Probably not. But that's not the same as a squat with good form. There are different limb lengths for different people, so deal with it.

Well film it so we can have a look

By the way - this is pretty good as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipv_5QIVNt8

btw raptor i read the article, please dont try to debunk it, cuz youll get owned by him

I might like it.

There are other OBVIOUS reasons why you leg press much more than you squat and I don't think quad strength has anything to do with it, or if it does, then it's a far away factor in terms of importance.

Well yeah, because the box squat removes like 100% of the reactive component of the squat, and as an athlete you're not glad it does that.

Well you really didn't give yourself a chance to get out of convalescence...