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Well he's a foot fetishist so he dresses all white to be able to admire himself in the mirror. It's perfectly normal, I tell you.

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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / Re: Various Jumpers: Plants
« on: June 17, 2010, 06:11:06 am »
Well, they open if you click on them...

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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / Re: Various Jumpers: Plants
« on: June 16, 2010, 12:14:37 pm »
Check these plants out, at the same moment of the jumping push-off, check how the knee goes out for great jumpers vs. me:

Oynur (the guy who did the between the legs off two feet in the Sport Arena contest):



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Dan Rogojan (a guy who did a between the legs off one foot and is a great (was a great) one leg jumper (~48 inches off one leg)):



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Me:



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Futbol (soccer) / Re: World Cup
« on: June 12, 2010, 06:11:54 pm »
I haven't watched football (or soccer as you call it) in such a long time... but this was a very good game to watch.

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Well they invite the "best" dunkers that are around, Romanian in origin. Then they invite special guests like world renown dunkers (Guy, Golden Child, Ziani etc). So since Nightfly is a good dunker he got in. We meet with the organizers of the competition ... I wrote some articles for them for free... just to promote the event... and so on.

And yeah Golden Child is crazy. But they all look "genetic"... (although it's hard to put a finger on what they have as superior to us) - they're all smooth and efficient, and not necessarily strong (at least in the traditional way).

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: June 12, 2010, 06:07:30 am »
You bet it would. It's nothing you can really control though, but it's not very common as well.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Interesting Glute article
« on: June 11, 2010, 05:31:55 pm »
I think the problem is that people take great quads for granted.

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I think he made them with a marker :D

He appreciates you (adarqui) and foreign people more than he does anybody in Romania because you actually help people, while here people hate on people and are just plain retarded.

So I guess that was the thing, I bet nobody had any idea what that writing meant anyway, but you couldn't expect anything else from them.

Thing is - everybody here either has the VJ or they don't. Nobody trains for it, and people that do train usually train with me.

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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / Re: Various Jumpers: Plants
« on: May 28, 2010, 06:39:38 am »
What's a TKE?

Anyway, I'm guessing you need to bend quite a bit at the hips to do the backpedal sprints, right? Because you can do them standing upright and reaching back with the foot while keeping the leg almost straight...

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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / Re: Various Jumpers: Plants
« on: May 27, 2010, 05:17:41 pm »
That's has been my problem all my jumping life: I can't amortizate in the quads. I might have faulty mechanics and overload the quads too much in the plant, but they ARE the limiting factor because they limit my ability to use momentum. You don't really need to be able to put out THAT much force voluntarily if you can use the accumulated kinetic force during the run-up in your plant.

But in order to do that you need to be able to stop the forward momentum and make it convert into upward thrust. To do that you need the best brakes in the world. The brakes are the quads because they prevent the knee collapse. So basically you need great quad eccentric strength to decelerate.

That's why I'm trying to forcefully decelerate after sprints... to learn to manage the high quad eccentric load... kind of like in a depth jump. I remember Adam Linkenauger recommending against a quick deceleration after a sprint as it might be injurious... but I kind of use that as an exercise in itself.

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Yeah if you look at Vince in his prime, he was going fast and bending a lot... he compressed so much "into" the ground to take in a lot of force and put out even more.

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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / Re: Various Jumpers: Plants
« on: May 27, 2010, 05:58:48 am »
Is it just me or all these guys put in A LOT of quad in their jumps? Looks like a lot of knee stress as well.

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Probably the more speed you have, the less you will bend in your jump because bending more will overload too much and also make you "reset" and lose all that momentum.

You probably will bend more off a two-step approach or so.

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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: Ohio Dairy Farmer's - DISTURBING
« on: May 27, 2010, 04:57:14 am »
Well the human is the worst kind of animal ever.

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: KNEE THREAD
« on: May 12, 2010, 05:12:04 am »
I don't currently know what's wrong with my knee. I'll try it though.

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