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QuoteWork on a drop step where you don't actually face up completely. This requires the dunk to have a bit of turn, so it's a drop step spin and the dunk has about a 80 degree spin in it. This allows you to protect the ball and even use your lead hand to fight off the defender (and even push off slightly for a boost). If you have a trainer parter it's best to practice w them - practice your spin, gather, protect and push off w your lead arm on their shoulder... hard to get this perfect but when you do you can get truly nasty dunks... Sounds v. interesting!!! When I practiced a spin into a drop step I found I had to do the spin real slow to get good groove into the plant for a jump. But I will practice what you've described, it seems subtly different from that. I find hte biggest challenge is not breaking the rules (travelling) while setting up for the dunk.
Work on a drop step where you don't actually face up completely. This requires the dunk to have a bit of turn, so it's a drop step spin and the dunk has about a 80 degree spin in it. This allows you to protect the ball and even use your lead hand to fight off the defender (and even push off slightly for a boost). If you have a trainer parter it's best to practice w them - practice your spin, gather, protect and push off w your lead arm on their shoulder... hard to get this perfect but when you do you can get truly nasty dunks...
Quote from: maxent on May 07, 2017, 12:17:13 amQuoteWork on a drop step where you don't actually face up completely. This requires the dunk to have a bit of turn, so it's a drop step spin and the dunk has about a 80 degree spin in it. This allows you to protect the ball and even use your lead hand to fight off the defender (and even push off slightly for a boost). If you have a trainer parter it's best to practice w them - practice your spin, gather, protect and push off w your lead arm on their shoulder... hard to get this perfect but when you do you can get truly nasty dunks... Sounds v. interesting!!! When I practiced a spin into a drop step I found I had to do the spin real slow to get good groove into the plant for a jump. But I will practice what you've described, it seems subtly different from that. I find hte biggest challenge is not breaking the rules (travelling) while setting up for the dunk.This is exactly why you don't want to do the spin move slow! If you execute it quickly and get a dunk nobody will notice your traveling... There is sort of an unwritten rule here that if a short guy drop steps on somebody.... nobody dares call travel... The only leagues that do are the same ones which will give you a technical foul for dunking - you don't want to play in those leagues anyway...
I want those Harden / Kobe biceps tho. lol. That's +1kg/arm maybe?
Quote from: maxent on May 10, 2017, 01:18:40 amI want those Harden / Kobe biceps tho. lol. That's +1kg/arm maybe?C'mon man. You should be aiming for Malone
Quote from: Coges on May 10, 2017, 02:00:17 amQuote from: maxent on May 10, 2017, 01:18:40 amI want those Harden / Kobe biceps tho. lol. That's +1kg/arm maybe?C'mon man. You should be aiming for Malone Haha maybe id revise the goals if consideringbut i think kobe/harden are more apt w/o
Quote from: maxent on May 10, 2017, 02:22:30 amQuote from: Coges on May 10, 2017, 02:00:17 amQuote from: maxent on May 10, 2017, 01:18:40 amI want those Harden / Kobe biceps tho. lol. That's +1kg/arm maybe?C'mon man. You should be aiming for Malone Haha maybe id revise the goals if consideringbut i think kobe/harden are more apt w/o Hahahaha. Yeah probably a wise choice. Low bf, decent shoulders and half decent arms and you'll look like a good baller.
On the same page! Will help my post play a ton not having wiry arms. Idk why I never stopped to reconsider the 'train the biggest muscles' back/legs myth but someone with my build can def put on 2.5kg of mass on there and i plan to do just that.
Quote from: maxent on May 10, 2017, 02:40:27 amOn the same page! Will help my post play a ton not having wiry arms. Idk why I never stopped to reconsider the 'train the biggest muscles' back/legs myth but someone with my build can def put on 2.5kg of mass on there and i plan to do just that.Is that a myth? Not sure how much functional use you can get out of slightly bigger arms since arm muscles are proportionally way smaller than leg and torso muscles. For basketball specifically though. I don't really know the rules of basketball but in frisbee you can't stiff arm people and can only box out with your body so that takes out a lot of the benefit of having larger arms. Don't really see larger arms carrying over to athleticism either.Really curious to see thoughts on this because I don't do lifting for arms except shoulders but it would be a thing to throw in occasionally if it does carry over to sport. Also, do people do any sort of more low-rep strength/fiber recruitment lifting for arms? My buddy who's a bodybuilding coach said people generally don't do that because the muscles are smaller and tear easier
You'd actually be surprised how much upper body strength matters in basketball. Especially for play in the key, mainly the tussle for rebounds and holding position. I played last night and the amount of times arms get tangled when vying for position when a shot goes up is immense. I had both arms being held during most contests last night. Now you might just say it should be a foul but most refs let that stuff go and it's the stronger player who comes out on top. Another factor is holding onto the ball during plays. I know that I'm far better when the upper body is strong than when I'm just doing mainly lower body work.
