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my favorite basketball example of fluid movement without explosiveness is z-bo. that dude is just fucking incredible to watch. he can barely dunk at 6-9 but he's an all-star.

also i'm leaving for pakistan today. back night of may 10. workouts while gone will focus on jump rope skills and conditioning, explosiveness via DB jump squats and depth jumps, and BB-style work for everything else.

You probably already know all this technical crap on paper, but the practical application is a different story.

i appreciate the input and attempts to help but, well, no shit. you're right, no advice on technique is useful without video unless a person has literally never heard of an exercise before. i've read/watched plenty about snatching.

@raptor: yes i'm already doing that, and the fact that you posted the video annoys me for some reason. sorry for the downvote but i'm standing by it. of course i'm fucking following a progression from somewhere. and it happens to be pendlays, his is the most straightforward that i've seen. maybe i posted about it before or maybe i'm just hungry and ill-tempered.

@ryno: on the turnover.

that's a thought, but i'm afraid of being any more distracted than i already am. happy to keep working my jump rope skills during warm ups for now.

tonight:

- SMR/stretching x 40 mins
focused on ankles/calves and wrists. and t-spine.

two dreams from the past week:

i was sitting around a camp fire with some people, just hanging out. everyone was being kind of quiet. at some point i realized that a new person had come and joined but was sitting on the ground right outside the circle, kind of behind and to my right. i turned around and it was pau gasol. no one else seemed to notice or care that he was there so i turned around and talked with him for a while. asked what he thought about marc being named defensive POY, he said he was very proud, very happy for him. we had kind of a long conversation. nice guy. then i woke up.

***

couple of nights later, i was in a forest and caught up in a big mock-battle over who could, in teams, climb to the top of these very tall trees and retrieve some kind of object first. my team had taken a lot of casualties just getting to the trees, so we were behind. the only way to climb up was via a rope and using your hands and legs to grip, and you needed at least three people to get up or you couldn't bring the object down. i saw one girl from my old gym who flander would get a chubby for (jacked but not ripped, big ass, big natural boobs, pretty) jump back down off the rope and her hands were shaking from the extertion, she almost couldn't close them anymore. so me and a couple teammates started up our tree and people were throwing spears at us and shooting arrows and stuff. that's all i remember.

i never get tired of watching that jump.

last night:

WEIGHT: 176
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: a little tired, happy

- warm up

- snatch drills
worked up to 40kg power snatch but i've still got plenty of hitches in my giddyup. will continue to work this until i've got it down. back to pendlay's videos later today.

- HB squat deep with pause 245 x 5,5
second set ended a bit challenging. lightheaded.

- circuit
-- reverse hyper 40 x 8,8,8,8
-- pull up x 7,7,7,8(+1)
-- DB push press 50s x 5,5,5,5
-- ab pull down x 15,15,15,15

later

- stretch

went to try out my gym's new location, in a fancy hotel in west end. not sure it's worth going over there.