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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism

« on: December 05, 2012, 09:43:12 am »

^^^ Interesting. Where is T0ddday to explain this to us? Intuitively you'd think that losing BW wouldn't have a deleterious effect on muscle fiber composition as long as you're consistently training for strength and/or explosiveness. No idea whether that's actually true in the real world, though.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Gerald Green head over rim analysis

« on: December 05, 2012, 09:38:36 am »

i agree that imitating form on a max jump is a bad idea, for the reasons avishek and raptor stated. thinking about things too hard is a recipe for uncoordinated messes. but thinking about approach and plant on submax jumps might not be a bad idea. look at high jumpers: that form is not purely natural, it's learned and practiced over time. i loved the video that raptor posted the other day of soviet high jump training. lots of hops and bounds and low depth jumps and the like.

KF is right, too, obviously. and at any rate, that's what i'm going to try to do this winter: improve power, improve strength, and practice jumping in game situations.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: weighted:pullups vs chin ups?

« on: December 04, 2012, 10:53:09 pm »

so?

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Gerald Green head over rim analysis

« on: December 04, 2012, 10:52:02 pm »

you mean...i should consciously practice...good form?

in all seriousness, that is good advice and i'll take it when i get the chance. thanks to both.

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: THE FORUM IS DIFFERENT

« on: December 04, 2012, 09:37:53 pm »

Quote from: adarqui on December 04, 2012, 08:05:01 pm

Quote from: LBSS on December 04, 2012, 12:42:19 pm
on iphones, the transformers mask shows up HUGE on every post.

hah wtf? shouldn't be doing that with the CSS i use for the pics but fawk.

it's only one mask or all of them ? (mask or mask(s)) ?

just the optimus prime mask.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: December 04, 2012, 06:29:00 pm »

Posted this in the Gerald Greene thread, which became the why LBSS sucks at jumping thread (sorry Joel): Just signed up for indoor ultimate this winter. Starts in January, games twice a week. Indoor ultimate is fun, it's like a cross between basketball, regular ultimate, and hockey. Played on a court so the chances of an ankle roll are much reduced. I'm out of shape and some extracurricular, fun GPP for a couple of months can only help, along with the opportunity to sprint and jump in a relaxed, competitive setting. Relaxed because there's no internal pressure to hit a particular height target. Competitive because, hey, it's competition. Who knows, I might come out the other side with improved movement efficiency and speed.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Gerald Green head over rim analysis

« on: December 04, 2012, 06:09:19 pm »

^^^ not bad advice but i don't really play basketball and i no longer even have regular access to a court. i've noticed that i jump higher when the rim looks lower, so the psychological/CNS factor is definitely there. and then there's the inhibiting factor of beating myself up for not jumping better when i'm jumping poorly.

i ~~might sign~~ signed up to play indoor ultimate this winter and will get my jumping and sprinting in that way. plus would help with GPP; i'm a bit out of shape. more relaxed jumping in the flow of the game = good practice. okay.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Gerald Green head over rim analysis

« on: December 04, 2012, 05:22:37 pm »

Quote from: MattA on December 04, 2012, 04:47:46 pm

yeah, your run-up is waaayy too slow, stiff, and upright. If you're jumping 34 with that technique, you could definitely be at 40+ with a proper run-up. Watch porter mayberry and zack jones

first sentence is true. second sentence might be true but is fucking useless to me because i can't do a proper run up. simply have not figured out how to do one. if you've got any advice other than "watch these supremely talented people" i'm all ears.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos

« on: December 04, 2012, 04:13:10 pm »

that is amazing.

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: THE FORUM IS DIFFERENT

« on: December 04, 2012, 12:42:19 pm »

on iphones, the transformers mask shows up HUGE on every post.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: so i met this model last night

« on: December 04, 2012, 12:39:22 pm »

Quote from: Dreyth on December 04, 2012, 11:44:24 am

I'm fully aware that not everyone sleeps in their own vomit lol, there's definintely normal people at parties that drink too (aka all my friends).

but the kind of people that LBSS mentioned... i mean wtf? you're in your 20's and want to make a liquor graveyard? i wanna slap that bitch and tell her to grow up. and then all the people on monday mornings telling you how drunk they got over the weekend. nobody gives a shit about how drunk you were. tell me what happened while you were drunk. Anything funny? interesting? important? ive heard the "omg i was so hammered" story so many times before.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvg-ug9CvE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvg-ug9CvE</a>

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Gerald Green head over rim analysis

« on: December 04, 2012, 12:38:06 pm »

hm, interesting look at his foot as he plants. never noticed the heel coming up off the floor immediately like that, as he's planting the forward foot. not sure what burnouts are but going back and look at some of my better jumps -- still vastly shittier than greene's, obviously -- my plant is too much of a jump stop for something like that to make a difference. flat footedness prevails.

to wit:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fS9bSrCGhg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fS9bSrCGhg</a>

what are burnouts? i never got air alert.

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