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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 15, 2011, 02:17:24 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on February 14, 2011, 05:25:27 pm
You really play that? If so, what do you need to be good at for that? Short distance sprints? Throwing power? What?

Short distance speed/acceleration and COD/quickness are most important, followed by strong cardio and lactic acid tolerance. Points are rarely longer than 2-3 minutes, but they're all out. Hops help a lot, too.

Once you reach a certain minimal level of strength the throwing power becomes about technique more than anything else. I know lots of people that can throw the length of the field (myself included). It's much more about angle and accuracy past a certain minimal point. It's like a three-pointer. Anyone can get the ball to go from the three-point line to the basket, but not many people can get it to go in the basket consistently.

We're getting wayyyy off-topic.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 15, 2011, 01:32:29 pm »
Quote from: adarqui on February 14, 2011, 11:30:46 pm
Quote from: LBSS on February 14, 2011, 11:02:44 am
Lower leg felt totally fine yesterday and feels fine again today. It was a birthday extravaganza this weekend: Saturday I spent the whole day helping my mom prepare for my dad's birthday party while he did the rest of his hike, then we had the party, then I was too tired to do much but play cards and go to sleep. Yesterday was my mom's birthday (my parents' birthdays are 5 days apart), so we did some family shit.

I should go to the gym today, but I'm conflicted because A) it's Valentine's Day and B) Tuesdays and Thursdays are generally better because the court doesn't get taken over until 8, rather than 7:15.

what the hell does valentine's day have to do with anything wtf?

word u coulda gone sunday/tuesday/thursday wt.f

happy BDAY to the LBSS-clan.

pc

strong question. the answer is nothing. i had a reason for bringing it up but it's not worth getting into now.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Squat 355 x 3 with thighs exposed, plus ~38" running vert pic
« on: February 14, 2011, 05:24:56 pm »
You live on the Upper West Side?

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 14, 2011, 05:20:10 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on February 14, 2011, 03:55:37 pm
Quote from: LBSS on February 14, 2011, 03:10:03 pm
Quote from: Raptor on February 14, 2011, 12:37:07 pm
You ended a LR planter because you probably jump a lot to block shots with your right arm. If you do that, you're going to jump LR so that the right arm is forward to reach towards the jump shooter. Also, shooting off the dribble is usually a LR plant so that the right arm is a bit forward. That skateboard thing, and pretty much anything else - is very indicative of your natural stable position. A stable position is a good position to jump off from.

Whenever I look at Vince (Carter) jumping for a block, he plants RL and goes up with his left hand, because he naturally plants RL. And you can see that in his block shot jumps as well.

PS. My therapist commented on how much more developed my right forearm is. No idea why.

I don't play basketball.

You could've spare both me and you some time and offer the answer to the question "what do you play?"

Didn't think you'd be interested. I play ultimate frisbee, although I'm taking a break at the moment to try to become a better athlete without the risk of spraining my ankle again. FWIW, as a right hander, my left foot is my pivot/plant foot for throws.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 14, 2011, 03:14:43 pm »
UPDATE: Watson takes on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter tonight. All other plans have been put on hold.

Google it, you lazy fucks.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 14, 2011, 03:11:15 pm »
Quote from: Sean0013 on February 14, 2011, 01:39:09 pm
:uhhhfacepalm: I don't know anybody of any nationality that thinks the republicans do your country any good except for stupid fucking Americans. The Japanese hate republicans, the English hate republicans, the Irish hate republicans, the French hate repubicans (add in the rest of Europe), all the Africans I know hate the republicans...I could go on for days. Your countries political system is just a horrific mess. Theres really not a huge difference between America and China and Russia these days. You big countries are just a fucking horrific cluster fuck of a fucking mess...

Republicans hate you, too.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 14, 2011, 03:10:03 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on February 14, 2011, 12:37:07 pm
You ended a LR planter because you probably jump a lot to block shots with your right arm. If you do that, you're going to jump LR so that the right arm is forward to reach towards the jump shooter. Also, shooting off the dribble is usually a LR plant so that the right arm is a bit forward. That skateboard thing, and pretty much anything else - is very indicative of your natural stable position. A stable position is a good position to jump off from.

Whenever I look at Vince (Carter) jumping for a block, he plants RL and goes up with his left hand, because he naturally plants RL. And you can see that in his block shot jumps as well.

PS. My therapist commented on how much more developed my right forearm is. No idea why.

I don't play basketball.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 14, 2011, 12:32:39 pm »
Quote from: zgin on February 14, 2011, 11:56:36 am
Quote from: serevei on February 14, 2011, 08:29:18 am
man the american health care system pisses me off so much...
having people not able to get treatment due to cost is just third world and stupid... how can the leading nation in the world have such shit health care when places like australia, england and switzerland etc. can have affordable public health care...
so fucking stupid....


apologies for the rant i just can stand the healthcare u got over there

its the republicans fault...

and the democrats for being pussies and not doing what's right.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 14, 2011, 12:27:27 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on February 14, 2011, 12:06:44 pm
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Pushing a Heavy object - Right foot forward
2-foot jump plant - LR
Kick - Left leg
Starting sprint stance - Right leg forward
1 foot jumping leg - Right leg

All the bolded stuff suggests you should jump RL. Let me ask you something else: what way do you stand on a skateboard? Although I don't have a skate or use one, when I fooled around with one I was beyond any doubt standing on it in a LR stance, with the left leg on it and the right leg pushing into the ground. That's solid with my natural LR plant.

And yet, my RL jumping is like a French person trying to throw a baseball. Clumsy and uncoordinated and 50% of the time the ball goes straight into the ground. Seriously, half the time I try to jump RL, I end up either planting with my left foot anyway, despite my best intentions, or doing a horrifically awkward simultaneous plant. It's embarrassing. Same goes for trying to jump of my left foot, when I try single-leg jumps. Half the time I end up jumping off my right foot anway.

My right leg is superior in strength movements, btw, and it's bigger than the left. The last time I got a massage, the therapist made a comment immediately about how much more defined my right leg is than my left.

I'm the same as you on a skateboard. Normal stance.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 14, 2011, 11:02:44 am »
Lower leg felt totally fine yesterday and feels fine again today. It was a birthday extravaganza this weekend: Saturday I spent the whole day helping my mom prepare for my dad's birthday party while he did the rest of his hike, then we had the party, then I was too tired to do much but play cards and go to sleep. Yesterday was my mom's birthday (my parents' birthdays are 5 days apart), so we did some family shit.

I should go to the gym today, but I'm conflicted because A) it's Valentine's Day and B) Tuesdays and Thursdays are generally better because the court doesn't get taken over until 8, rather than 7:15.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 14, 2011, 10:42:27 am »
Pushing a Heavy object - Right foot forward
2-foot jump plant - LR
Kick - Left leg
Starting sprint stance - Right leg forward
1 foot jumping leg - Right leg

I'm right handed and jump much higher off my right leg than my left. Also, my handle (such as it is) is much better with my left hand than with my right. When I do jumps at the rim I reach with my left hand, because my shoulder is higher on that side so I can reach higher.

The differences are huge, too. I was never much of a soccer player but when I'm messing around left leg is a lot more powerful and a LOT more dexterous (see what I did there?) than right. Even popping a basketball up to myself off the ground, left foot is automatic. Dribbling with my left hand is MUCH more comfortable than with my right hand, although admittedly I suck at both. LR plant is probably twice as good as RL plant, shit just gets awkward when I try to go RL. Sprint isn't quite so much of a difference in terms of which foot starts forward, but in a race I would definitely do right foot forward.

Interesting thread.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 12, 2011, 10:40:01 am »
Quote from: adarqui on February 11, 2011, 04:10:25 am
Quote from: LBSS on February 10, 2011, 05:44:21 pm
Have been getting a crucial ache in my knee (ITB, maybe plantaris), calf, Achilles, heel and top of my foot just before the third and fourth toes. There's a dirty trigger point (or 12) in there somewhere. I haven't had an ache like this in a while so I'm gonna get to the gym early tonight and do a shit ton of SMR and stretching and shit.

Plan for tomorrow is to walk a whole lot with my dad (he's doing a 60 mile hike over 4 days for his 60th birthday, I'm joining for day 3), so it would be nice to be free of lingering leg pain before I get into that.

damn your dad is beast.. sounds fun, hope you're health for it.


Great walk. I ended up joining my dad for the last 13 of his 16 miles yesterday. Beautiful day and I love spending time with him, so it was really nice. My lower left leg (same as the other day) started acting up really bad sometime soon after lunch, much worse than Friday, but it had gotten better-ish with some stretching and, oddly, more walking. Feels totally normal this morning. No workout today, gonna help my mom with a bunch of errands and shit leading up to the party/grand finale of my dad's hike. Tomorrow, though, I'm going to head over to the middle school court near my parents' house and see what I can do. Also, try to measure that hoop. Glad we're getting a few nice days for once.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Strength rankings
« on: February 10, 2011, 07:27:59 pm »
Quote from: Dreyth on February 10, 2011, 06:21:21 pm
Which one is he?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 10, 2011, 05:44:21 pm »
Have been getting a crucial ache in my knee (ITB, maybe plantaris), calf, Achilles, heel and top of my foot just before the third and fourth toes. There's a dirty trigger point (or 12) in there somewhere. I haven't had an ache like this in a while so I'm gonna get to the gym early tonight and do a shit ton of SMR and stretching and shit.

Plan for tomorrow is to walk a whole lot with my dad (he's doing a 60 mile hike over 4 days for his 60th birthday, I'm joining for day 3), so it would be nice to be free of lingering leg pain before I get into that.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Strength rankings
« on: February 10, 2011, 04:01:00 pm »
Lady and gentlemen, we have our first troll! Might I be the first to roll out the welcome mat?

WELCOME, SIR!*

I'm only disappointed that he's not less of a complete fucking retard.

*I'm assuming male gender here, could be wrong.

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