Parkland Dash 5k Race: 1st overall - "defended my title" (lmfao): 5k @ 20:14, splits: 5:54, 6:19, 7:04 - felt great early on, started abdominal cramping at ~1.3 mi, shut it down completely at mile 2 to avoid death-cramping.
i don't think j-kills is into bball like that. I do think he played for his h.s. team and maybe a year at his local college, i forget.. but, I think he's always been just so obsessed with dunking itself, that he doesn't even think about bball. that's the vibe i get.
Thanks Adarq. It wss actually my common practice to do 5 reps of drop and 5 reps depthjump as warm up. Guess it is doing more harm than good. Would take ur advice and in my next effort jump session next week.
Mean while a video log.
171007 W2 Plyo Some of the contact time is way too long. Coach suggested to focus on low ground contact time while maintaining 90 percent height. He said try to not lose more than 10 percent of vert while keeping the speed up Thats the idea, but in no way i can tell if i am jumping my 90 or 80 percent height... I just know.. I am slow... When i am on the ground too long.
again, "i just know, i am slow .. my contact time are way too slow". why? says who? it's not that bad .. the problem I see, is that you are thinking about that landing after the jump, it's obvious that's what's going on in your head.
in a true depth jump: you drop, and jump as high as possible while trying to get off the ground as fast as possible, that's all you think about. That's the cue that the guy who created depth jumps, found to be the best/most effective. He also used an overhead goal (something to hit/touch), which makes them more effective, but not everyone has that kind of setup. If you can implement an overhead goal, I would do it.
there's no 90%, 80%, or thinking about what to do after you jump (ie some kind of landing).
so i'm not trying to go against your coach, but, there's no 90% in a true DJ. If you are doing 90%, that's a submax DJ effort.. which again, could be the purpose, to get more volume in or maybe just as preparation for more intense DJ's, so who knows.
but, the biggest problem is that you are thinking about landing in some "squat form" after your jump.. I don't get that at all. If you jump as high as possible, you will land all kinds of different ways. It'll never be one consistent type of landing: sometimes you'll twist, sometimes you look all funny & be off balanced, sometimes you'll land picture perfect -> NONE OF WHICH IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER. Many of my highest jumps after DJ's had my literally landing facing the other direction, because i'm reaching up as high as possible with my right arm and that causes considerable twisting.
so, to me, the fact that you have added another "link in the chain" to the movement, means you are sacrificing the ability to truly focus on the DJ itself. Someone has told you, or you are trying, to do a "Depth Jump + Depth drop" .. IMHO, those are two different exercises. The Depth Jump itself has a drop, the initial drop off of the box/etc. The next phase is the jump. There's no reason to have yet another depth drop after the jump .. I mean it'll happen naturally, you're landing .. but no reason to actually think about sticking the landing in some kind of specific form.
your DJ's are not as bad as you think they are.. you often think things are worse than they are, I feel that this may cause you to overanalyze in the wrong direction. Since you think you're slow off the ground, or your jump plant isn't low enough, or your runup is too slow etc, you try and manually correct these things, causing more "thought" during the movements.
the more you think during an explosive/dynamic movement, the worse it gets. Just "think" about that, no pun intended. It should be reflexive, free, with as little interference from the brain as possible. By thinking too much & correcting (or what we think is correcting, actually incorrecting) various components of a movement, we actually teach ourselves to be more mechanical. We are not machines.
Clear your mind and just, do - with maximal effort, passion, love, intensity, etc.
dude. Dupuy plays in lots of leagues, events, tournaments, streetball/pickup games etc. He's a hooper, loves the game it seems. You check his instagram? The last "tournament" I saw that he competed in was something in Miami:
An event/charity game:
Also he does lots of pickup ball apparently. One thing is for sure, that dude is REALLY busy. He seems to ALWAYS be doing something, travels all over the place to dunk & hoop.
nice link though, hadn't seen the "full highlights".
Professor had a few really disgusting moves in there on people.
During conventional barbell training, intensity is manipulated primarily via load. The more weight you lift, the higher the intensity, the stronger you get. While this works fine for a while, what most trainees find is that a long term focus on conventional lifting results in excess weight gain, development of the “prime movers” out of proportion with the “stabilizing muscles”, a reduction in sport speed and form, and an ever-increasing chance of injury as the weights climb.
it's a nice opening quote .. i like the weight gain part, but that can be controlled when doing traditional lifting simply through diet. not sure about the other claims, would have been nice if he used references
I think the biggest thing he's missing though, is, what happens when the weights become easier over time? ie, you've been squatting for 2 years, and 1.5 x BW used to be hard, now it flies up in < 1s - you can basically jump squat it, with your new slow max at 2.5 x BW, at a 5-7 lb. bodyweight increase.. now what? Sounds like a recipe for solid performance gains.
so now, how's that work with "ballistics"? You used to be able to swing the hammer 30 ft, now you can swing it 50 ft. Surely a power increase, but not sure how well it increases without significant increases in base strength.
I just don't buy the injury stuff though.. Theoretically, the more force you are able to produce at voluntary effort, the more stress you are able to create for your tendons, muscles, bones, joints, etc. Doesn't really matter what you are doing, if you are performing anything at "max effort", whether it's running, sprinting, swinging a hammer, depth jumping, bounding, squatting etc, the injury risk always seems high, even though you are more prepared than the average human. And it's not just more prepared, it's also less inhibited - less inhibition meant to protect you from yourself, controlled the CNS. To me, heavy lifting has always seemed safer than ballistic efforts. Things move so much more slowly, you have way more control.
Regardless, seems very similar to RJ of many years ago. Almost looks like an old article. Wonder how he's progressed more now that he's coaching.
exactly, it's more complicated than a specific trait.... brb going to go train....
if it's more complicated than a specific trait or traits, then you're basically agreeing that it's more complicated than genetics, which would mean you're starting to agree more with me that culture & training are probably more important.
If I were to say "German Shepards, in general, have stronger bites than Cocker Spaniels" would I be a dog racist?
If I were to say "All german shepards have stronger bites than cocker spaniels" than I may be stereotyping.
Sure there has to be certain cocker spaniels out there that have stronger bites than certain German Shepards, but those are obv outliers.
Your golden nugget basket is getting heavier.
The problem (one of many) with your analogy is, these dogs are of completely different structure (size/weight), and you're using a strength measurement.
If you were comparing the bite strength of black cocker spaniels to white cocker spaniels, that'd resemble more of what you're doing with humans.
All i'm saying is that YOU CAN'T DENY THE FACT THAT GENETICS PLAYS A BIG ROLE IN ATHLETICS.
I don't think you read what I type, I never said genetics don't play a role .. I read what you type though.
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If I were to say that African Americans skin pigments, in general, is less likely to get sunburned than a caucasian, am I still being racist? It's a FACT, not racism at all. If I were to say no african americans get sunburned, and all whites get sunburned, then that be a stereotype/racism etc wthaever u want to call it.
I can't believe someone as smart as you are, is being like this....
We're actually making progress here, believe it or not.
You just identified a genetic factor in black people, melanin, which helps prevent sunburn - but doesn't actually entirely prevent sun burn. Black people also have a significantly higher risk of getting melanoma's, apparently. So burn less, but more risk for skin cancer.
So you identified an EXACT genetic trait responsible for addressing some kind of effect.
Now, please provide me the genetic trait(s) responsible for putting a ball through a hoop. If you list "melanin", i'll fall over and die. Every trait you will try to list, will not be anything specific to people with melanin in their skin.
Apparently simply being "of West African Descent" or having melanin in skin, makes people better at putting a ball in a hoop and bouncing it with coordination on the floor. Got it. Thanks!
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