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« Reply #6390 on: June 09, 2016, 02:41:10 am »
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quick logging, been busy coding/foruming all day.

rained all day.



06/08/2016

Bio: Morning

last night's sleep: ~8 hours
last night fell asleep: ~3 AM
wakeup = 11 PM
bw = 147
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = quads alot, hamstrings alot (right especially, left bicep femoris tendon achy), glutes moderate, calves slightly
aches = left bicep femoris tendon moderate
injuries = toenails slightly wrekt, right elbow tendonitis barely (always)
standing desk (when on computer): none
feel = good
water = alot



Food

12 PM

- green tea
- plain greek yogurt + honey



Food

7 PM
- this meal was epic..
- man i'm getting solid at cooking.. even though these meals are simple, this came out amazing.

- 6 eggs
- big stir fry: grilled chicken, 4 potatoes, 2 carrots, garlic, serrano pepper, red chili pepper, white onions, mixed nuts, olive oil, salt/pepper
- banana
- 2% milk - extra cool from ~15 minutes in freeze .. hehe, it's good.
- epic corn bread from some place, topped with extra honey & butter
- 4 x chocolates


Food

10 PM

- coffee ice cream
- hot mint tea



Food

2 PM

- grape fruit juice
- 2 x wheat bread with peanut butter
- biscotti



tons of programming today.. got a bunch of stuff done, almost hit all of my goals. but, finished some other stuff so, all is good.

06/08/2016 goals:
  • create/edit organization
  • create/edit forum
  • create/edit board
  • create/edit thread

- create/edit post

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Re: ADARQ's journal
« Reply #6391 on: June 10, 2016, 03:40:23 am »
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rained again, all day.

06/09/2016

Bio: Morning

last night's sleep: ~8 hours
last night fell asleep: ~4 AM
wakeup = 12 PM
bw = 149
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = hamstrings slightly, quads slightly
aches = left bicep femoris tendon moderate
- oddly got better late at night
injuries = toenails slightly wrekt, right elbow tendonitis barely (always)
standing desk (when on computer): none
feel = good
water = alot



Food

12 PM

- 2% milk
- green tea



Food

4 PM
- zona fresca

- 2 x chicken tacos
- 2 x beef tacos
- tortilla chips + salsa
- 2 x sierra mist soda



Food

9 PM

- 4 x chocolates
- medium stir fry: grilled chicken, 1/2 sweet potato, 3 turmeric, 1 jalapeno, 1 red chili pepper, 1 serrano pepper, bunch of garlic, kalamata olives, mixed nuts, olive oil, salt/pepper, shredded beats, goat cheese at the end
- 2% milk - extra cool
- 2 x veggie egg rolls
- hot mint tea
- biscotti



Food

3:30 PM

- propel
- grape fruit juice



if i feel good tomorrow, i'll probably train.. wasn't looking to optimistic for tomorrow because of my left bicep femoris tendon feeling sore/achy.. but it miraculously disappeared after I ate my stir fry.. maybe turmeric/peppers/garlic/beats are a miracle, felt damn good after that meal.

got lots of programming done, but not everything I wanted to do.. lots of other stuff kept me busy today. Tomorrow I am going to spend some time cleaning up some buttons/labels etc that are annoying me, and also spend some time cleaning up my "views'. Have some ideas to make those more versatile.

right now everything is working but i'm also hacking lots of things together just to get them to work.. that's good and bad.. means I have to clean stuff up alot, and eventually refactor certain things etc.. but i don't care, things are moving along fine at the moment.

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Re: ADARQ's journal
« Reply #6392 on: June 11, 2016, 02:41:41 am »
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rained again, mostly all day.

holy shit. check soreness, aches, injuries...  :personal-record:


06/10/2016

Bio: Morning

last night's sleep: ~7 hours
last night fell asleep: ~4 AM
wakeup = 11 AM
bw = 149
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = none!
aches = none!
injuries = none!
standing desk (when on computer): none
feel = good
water = alot



Food

11:30 AM

- green tea
- beet + tart cherry juice
- 2 x wheat bread with peanut butter



Session: Afternoon

3 PM
- 73 F, 100% humidity (hah)

runs:
- didn't feel so powerful.. but i like i planned, held back in this session so I could go hard at night (jump + run).
- was also raining/wet


1. 0.09 mi in 36s
- ~6:36 min/mi

2. 0.09 mi in 31s
- ~5:33 min/mi

3. 0.26 mi in 1m:20s
- ~5:13 min/mi

4. 1.02 mi in 5:50
- 1 km: 3:28
- ~10.5 mph, ~5:43 min/mi
- tried to just hold my run #3 pace throughout



Food

4 PM

- coconut almond milk



Food

6 PM
- whole foods

- green tea
- "vegan" chocolate fudge brownie
-- not sure what that actually means



Food

7:30 PM
- CAFF'D UP!!!!  :ibjumping:

- 2% milk + 2 tea spoons of bustello instant coffee, + some honey
- my old pre-dunk mix.. :D



Session: Evening

8:30 PM
- shoes: newer xc900v2's (haven't ever jumped in these, but have been wearing them "out" for about a year, so they still actually feel new/have good grip).

run (to court):
- 0.55 mi in 3:05
- 10.8 mph, 5:34 min/mi
- felt great

jumps:
- ~30 jumps each, L-SLRVj/R-SLRVJ
- mostly submax
- a few max jumps with L-SLRVJ: hit ~10'8 3 times.. ~2" better than i've jumped since the come back
-- ^^ whole hand over rim
- PR territory for me, with L-SLRVJ height-check jumps is around 10'10" ... so i'm actually pretty close to that. though it seems in previous videos that I have gotten up higher, I always do on lobs.. so if I can end up getting 35" (11' touch) without a lob, i'll be fucking flying again...  :ibjumping:
- didn't try to push it even further past 10'8, felt happy with this and backed off.
- also did tons of jumps from various angles, even practicing 180's / one side of the hoop to the other and such, touching rim.

jumps felt so good.. very explosive.. also crazy amp'd from the caffeine.

- also finally cleared the "key" (from one side to the other), with L-SLRHJ.. did this from about ~5 ft behind the out of bounds line, and cleared it landing on one foot. Also cleared it landing on two feet from much further back, was basically a full speed ~30 yard sprint + L-SLRHJ.

run:
- 0.75 mi in 5:04
- cramped up hard at ~2minutes.. was actually running pretty good, sub 6.. cramp kicked in probably from lack of real food.
- wanted to run 5k :/
- so that ended up being a bust..

completely drenched at the end. humidity was nuts. 77F + 100% humidity at night.



Food

9:50 PM

- 2% milk



Food

11 PM

- banana
- huge stir fry: grilled chicken, broccoli, tons of garlic (1 entire head of garlic), white onion, half of a green pepper, red chili pepper, serrano pepper, 2 x turmeric, lots of mixed nuts, olive oil, salt/pepper, some ginger root, 4 x carrots, kalamata olives, shredded beets, goat cheese at the end
- whole milk

excellent..  :headbang:



Food

12 AM

- whole milk
- biscotti



Food

3:30 AM

- propel




extremely happy with today's jumps.. first time I really focused on jumping "fresh" in a long time. usually i've been jumping after a significant amount of running etc.. so got to see where i'm at right now with lots of caffeine in me & legs feeling bouncy/fresh.

i'm hoping I can train again sunday.. mandatory rest tomorrow, then run-emphasis on sunday. I'd like to do a bunch of tempo 400's in the afternoon session, then 5k run + a bunch of submax jumps in the evening session -> basically the opposite of today (run focus, not vert focus).

i am really loving jumping in my xc900v2's as opposed to any of my other shoes.. they just feel flatter & stronger. haven't felt my "heel" get stressed with these shoes, so I think they are the safest shoes I have right now, that I can jump in, which aren't basketball shoes.

I think i'm going to order some xc700v3's just so I have a new extra-bouncy pair, maybe when I go to my favorite indoor gym. They are pretty cheap too now, $54.99.

http://www.newbalance.com/pd/xc700v3-spikeless/MXC700-V3R.html#color=Pigment_with_Yellow&width=D



correction: these are 700's.. not sure what the difference between 900's and 700's are.



I've been jumping in these recently:
- http://www.adarq.org/shoes/new-balance-xc900v2-spikeless/
- the first pair today, those are my newer ones
- the pink pair are my very broken in ones


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Re: ADARQ's journal
« Reply #6393 on: June 11, 2016, 11:21:56 pm »
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I remember you saying how you didn't like high top shoes for jumping, but I think you were a two foot jumper before. You think that you would do fine with high tops for one foot jumping? It seems like there's little to no dorsiflexion when you jump off one, so high tops shouldn't be a problem.

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« Reply #6394 on: June 12, 2016, 12:17:00 pm »
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I remember you saying how you didn't like high top shoes for jumping, but I think you were a two foot jumper before. You think that you would do fine with high tops for one foot jumping? It seems like there's little to no dorsiflexion when you jump off one, so high tops shouldn't be a problem.

yo!

Well, I just don't like basketball shoes at all; high, mid, or low. If I have to wear basketball shoes, they would be low.

Alot of it is mental, I just hate how they feel. Some of it is physical; they are heavy, slow me down, and I don't like how my ankle feels in them when I jump maximally.

Plus, how can I run, then get my jumps in? I have to wear shoes that are strong enough for both, but light/proper enough to run in. So, this kind of defaults me to jumping in running shoes (more preferably, XC flats).

You make a good point regarding dorsi-flexion.

The biggest concern with jumping in XC flats, that i've experienced, is your feet themselves. Much easier to injure your heel, plantar fascia, toenails etc when jumping in such light shoes. However, when I dunked with DLRVJ, I was so adapted to my nike zoom waffle racers (XC flats) that I never had any issues, and DLRVJ is arguably much more intense on the feet/ankles than SLRVJ when it comes to jumping - especially with my side plant that I had, which had alot of 'ankle rolling'.

One thing I have wondered about is, whether or not I would get up higher in basketball shoes (if I just stuck with them completely), since they are so much stronger. It's possible, but, since all of my major PR's have come in XC flats AND they feel SO MUCH better to me, I just don't feel the need to experiment with basketball shoes anymore.

I think the highest I ever jumped in basketball shoes was a 10'10 touch.. a few months later, though stronger/more explosive, I hit 11' in XC flats.. haven't turned back since.

I think it makes even more sense though, that SLRVJ in XC flats will be better than DLRVJ in XC flats. Just less time on the ground, less of an intense lateral plant, less ankle mobility required, etc.

The last factor is $$. XC flats are CHEAP. My Nike Zoom Waffle Racers used to cost me 29-39$. Right now, my NB XC900's cost me 49-59$.

Since i'm not playing basketball, just jumping (and eventually dunking), I just don't see the need for the extra support/heavyness of basketball shoes.

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Re: ADARQ's journal
« Reply #6395 on: June 12, 2016, 12:32:53 pm »
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high tops are dead weight. why wear such a heavy shoe? that is the question.
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Re: ADARQ's journal
« Reply #6396 on: June 12, 2016, 12:37:02 pm »
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yesterday:


rainy day.


06/11/2016

Bio: Morning

last night's sleep: ~7.5 hours
last night fell asleep: ~3 AM
wakeup = 10:30 AM
bw = 148
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = quads a little
aches = none!
injuries = none!
standing desk (when on computer): none
feel = good
water = alot



Food

11 AM

- greek yogurt



Evening

6 PM
- rainy walk with sweatshirt

walk:
- 8.02 mi in 2h:07m:52s
- 15:56 min/mi, 3.8 mph
- slow walk
- absolutely no cramping, amazing

toenails/feet tender after.. even though I went slow.



Food

8 PM

- coconut almond milk



Food

10 PM
- epic meal

- stir fry: grilled chicken, 4 potato, 2 carrot, white onion, 1/4th green pepper, jalapeno pepper, serrano pepper, mixed nuts, kalamata olives, some ginger root, olive oil, salt/pepper, blueberries the last two minutes (awesome), goat cheese at the end
- 6 x eggs
- english muffin fried with butter/honey, came out GREAT
- whole milk



Food

11 PM

- whole milk
- 2 x biscotti (should have only had one)



slept early.. so tired. maybe some fatigue from yesterday's CAFF UP.

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Re: ADARQ's journal
« Reply #6397 on: June 12, 2016, 12:37:43 pm »
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high tops are dead weight. why wear such a heavy shoe? that is the question.

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« Reply #6398 on: June 12, 2016, 02:33:36 pm »
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high tops are dead weight. why wear such a heavy shoe? that is the question.

x2

If I didn't have high tops on I'd feel like I was gonna rip my ankle off my leg and it'd hop away...never to return.

Also, on strava for that 10k challenge, some guy logged in a 106km run in like 5.5 hours.....I'm guessing he used a car or dirt bike lol
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« Reply #6399 on: June 12, 2016, 03:30:36 pm »
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pasting: accidentally overwrote this



Quote from: John Stamos on June 12, 2016, 02:33:36 pm
Quote from: adarqui on June 12, 2016, 12:37:43 pm
Quote from: LBSS on June 12, 2016, 12:32:53 pm
high tops are dead weight. why wear such a heavy shoe? that is the question.

x2

If I didn't have high tops on I'd feel like I was gonna rip my ankle off my leg and it'd hop away...never to return.

eek.

low/mid tops + ankle supports though.


Quote
Also, on strava for that 10k challenge, some guy logged in a 106km run in like 5.5 hours.....I'm guessing he used a car or dirt bike lol

ya some people cheat on purpose, it's odd.

I need to run a 10k this month in order to get some stats for that challenge.. eventually I need to try and push for a sub-40m .. I've never gone under 40 minutes. I'd need to be consistently hitting low 19's in 5k though first.





journaling early, because i might fall asleep early again  :headbang:


06/12/2016

Bio: Morning

last night's sleep: ~10 hours
last night fell asleep: ~1 AM
wakeup = 11 AM
bw = 148
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = quads slightly
aches = none!
injuries = previously ingrown big-toenail slightly (weird sensations)
standing desk (when on computer): none
feel = good but, eyes tired at times, probably from that caff up/PR jumping a few days ago
water = alot



Food

11:30 AM

- greek yogurt



Session: Afternoon

1:30 PM
- ~85F
- shoes: NEW nb 5000v2's .. feel so good when they are brand new ;f
- breaking them in

runs:

1. warmup: 0.15 mi in 53s
- 10 mph, 6:01 min/mi

2. warmup: 0.25 mi in 1m:30s
- 9.9 mph, 6:02 min/mi

temp: 4 x ~400m
- rest: walk back
- strike: midfoot, active dorsiflexion
- breathing: in:nose, out:mouth
- goal: every 400m in ~1m:29s

3. 0.26 mi in 1m:29s
- 10.5 mph, 5:43 min/mi

4. 0.26 mi in 1m:29s
- 10.5 mph, 5:43 min/mi

5. 0.26 mi in 1m:31s
- 10.1 mph, 5:57 min/mi

6. 0.25 mi in 1m:28s
- 10.4 mph, 5:45 min/mi

breathing in through nose, out through mouth is a good way to hold back on the 400's, but still go intense.. it's a good gauge at whether or not i'm at my goal tempo pace.

felt good, other than quads being tight/sore.

right big toenail feels weird.. it doesn't hurt, I can just "feel" it.. i've had this off and on ever since I "fixed it". hope it's not the nail growing underneath !! HEH !!



Food

3 PM

- 2 x wheat bread with peanut butter
- beet + tart cherry juice
- green tea
- blueberries
- banana



Food

5:30 PM

- almond joy
- beet + berry drink (premade)



Session: Evening

7:30 PM
- shoes: worn out NB XC900v2's (submax jumping shoes)

run:
- 3.16 mi in 21m25s
- 5k: 21m03s
- 1k: 3m46s
- 12-minute-test: 1.85mi
- 3mi: 20m20s
- splits: 6:17, 6:43, 7:23, 53s
- left rib cramp crept up @ 3/4ths left in the first mile, toughed it out through the end of the 2nd mile, basically disappeared come the 3rd mile, but was spent
- thought my 2nd mile was closer to 6:17 .. wanted to do 3 x 6:10's, fail

jumps:
- submax
- ~30 each, L-SLRVJ & R-SLRVJ
- easy 10'3"s - 10'4"s off L-SLRVJ
- hit a few 10'7"s on some harder jumps

run home:
- 0.5 mi in 3m:16s
- worked on arm action.. first time really doing this, believe it or not.
- need to practice this more, especially on my warmup/practice runs

here's an example of the arm action I was working on:
- http://www.adarq.org/800m-running-andor-conditioning/gait-analysis-videos/msg120947/#msg120947




quads dead.. left achilles area a bit sore.

happy about the 5k though, with that cramp still got 1.85 mi on the 12-minute test. I was aiming for near 2 mi, because soon I actually want to hit ~2m in 12 minutes.

i'd need to run 2 x 6min/mi for that.. that'd be a PR. my best so far is 1.96 miles in 12 minutes.. need to break that soon.



Food

8:50 PM

- whole milk



Food

11 PM
- bad eating

- 6 x chicken wings
- 2 x southwest style egg rolls with sour cream
- green tea
- blueberries
- banana
- whole milk


Food

2:15 AM

- greek yogurt
- grape fruit juice




stupid fuqn cramps. left & right knee a bit achy. also iced my elbow -> started feeling horrible after eating such CRAP tonight.. when I eat crap, my elbow inflames more, from what i've noticed..

tmw i'm not doing anything, except programming.. got a ton of coding done today tho, lots of good refactoring which is helping a ton already.

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« Reply #6400 on: June 13, 2016, 07:03:44 am »
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dammit, haven't slept yet. brain racing. brain-dumped a bunch of stuff into my ideas/notes files, did mockups etc.. brain won't calm down so, just going to stay up for now :/

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« Reply #6401 on: June 13, 2016, 08:56:32 am »
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dammit, haven't slept yet. brain racing. brain-dumped a bunch of stuff into my ideas/notes files, did mockups etc.. brain won't calm down so, just going to stay up for now :/

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Ayeeeee me too! I'm trying to reset my godawful sleep schedule so I'm only gonna sleep 4 hours in naps today and hopefully go to bed at a reasonable time that isn't in the 3-5am range. I always feel like my brain works optimally the 3-4 hours after an all-nighter before the fatigue sets in.

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« Reply #6402 on: June 13, 2016, 09:31:36 am »
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dammit, haven't slept yet. brain racing. brain-dumped a bunch of stuff into my ideas/notes files, did mockups etc.. brain won't calm down so, just going to stay up for now :/

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Ayeeeee me too! I'm trying to reset my godawful sleep schedule so I'm only gonna sleep 4 hours in naps today and hopefully go to bed at a reasonable time that isn't in the 3-5am range. I always feel like my brain works optimally the 3-4 hours after an all-nighter before the fatigue sets in.

daaym. insomniac club. my brain is working good but it's starting to get tired. fatigue is setting in hard right now.

i'm such a night person, it's a battle to try and sleep every night before 3 AM.

how long have you been sleeping in the 3-5AM range?

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« Reply #6403 on: June 13, 2016, 02:29:54 pm »
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dammit, haven't slept yet. brain racing. brain-dumped a bunch of stuff into my ideas/notes files, did mockups etc.. brain won't calm down so, just going to stay up for now :/

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Ayeeeee me too! I'm trying to reset my godawful sleep schedule so I'm only gonna sleep 4 hours in naps today and hopefully go to bed at a reasonable time that isn't in the 3-5am range. I always feel like my brain works optimally the 3-4 hours after an all-nighter before the fatigue sets in.

daaym. insomniac club. my brain is working good but it's starting to get tired. fatigue is setting in hard right now.

i'm such a night person, it's a battle to try and sleep every night before 3 AM.

how long have you been sleeping in the 3-5AM range?

Dunno to what extent I buy into some people being "night owls", "early birds" (other than older people being more early birds). It's just a matter of lifestyle choices rather than an innate preference IMO.  It's so hard to push sleep cycles back when you've made a habit of going to bed late, but so easy to accidentally push them forward. I've been in the 3-5am range about a month (since school ended). But I almost always go to bed after 1am regardless. I don't really have a researched explanation for wanting to get up early, other than it would be "more natural" and trying something new. hopefully my body would function better in some way from getting up and going to bed at sunrise and sunset.

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« Reply #6404 on: June 13, 2016, 08:11:46 pm »
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I remember you saying how you didn't like high top shoes for jumping, but I think you were a two foot jumper before. You think that you would do fine with high tops for one foot jumping? It seems like there's little to no dorsiflexion when you jump off one, so high tops shouldn't be a problem.

yo!

Well, I just don't like basketball shoes at all; high, mid, or low. If I have to wear basketball shoes, they would be low.

Alot of it is mental, I just hate how they feel. Some of it is physical; they are heavy, slow me down, and I don't like how my ankle feels in them when I jump maximally.

Plus, how can I run, then get my jumps in? I have to wear shoes that are strong enough for both, but light/proper enough to run in. So, this kind of defaults me to jumping in running shoes (more preferably, XC flats).

You make a good point regarding dorsi-flexion.

The biggest concern with jumping in XC flats, that i've experienced, is your feet themselves. Much easier to injure your heel, plantar fascia, toenails etc when jumping in such light shoes. However, when I dunked with DLRVJ, I was so adapted to my nike zoom waffle racers (XC flats) that I never had any issues, and DLRVJ is arguably much more intense on the feet/ankles than SLRVJ when it comes to jumping - especially with my side plant that I had, which had alot of 'ankle rolling'.

One thing I have wondered about is, whether or not I would get up higher in basketball shoes (if I just stuck with them completely), since they are so much stronger. It's possible, but, since all of my major PR's have come in XC flats AND they feel SO MUCH better to me, I just don't feel the need to experiment with basketball shoes anymore.

I think the highest I ever jumped in basketball shoes was a 10'10 touch.. a few months later, though stronger/more explosive, I hit 11' in XC flats.. haven't turned back since.

I think it makes even more sense though, that SLRVJ in XC flats will be better than DLRVJ in XC flats. Just less time on the ground, less of an intense lateral plant, less ankle mobility required, etc.

The last factor is $$. XC flats are CHEAP. My Nike Zoom Waffle Racers used to cost me 29-39$. Right now, my NB XC900's cost me 49-59$.

Since i'm not playing basketball, just jumping (and eventually dunking), I just don't see the need for the extra support/heavyness of basketball shoes.

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I see. I actually bought a nike zoom lt streak 2's for jumping in 2014, which were track flats for sprinting I think, and they were actually really good. They didn't have much cushion and kept me low to the floor instead of having that mushy cushion that a lot of bball shoes have. They're completely worn out now though, so I've returned back to bball shoes. I may hop back onto these racing shoes soon though lol.