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Nah, was dunking tennis balls in hs and college but that's where it ended. I was 5'8" 165 back then, now I'm about 200, so I've given up on that dream.
Who in here can dunk a basketball?
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Nah, was dunking tennis balls in hs and college but that's where it ended. I was 5'8" 165 back then, now I'm about 200, so I've given up on that dream.
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Box jumps aka depth jumps are the truth.Originally Posted by Bee GoT GaMe 23
How much do you weigh? you might just have to trim down a bit and focus on working out on key area's and i'm sure you'll get there eventually.
I'm not gunna lie it took me a little while, coming out of high school (2007) i could barely tip the rim
as of late 2009 i was finally able to jump up and grab/hang on to the rim with one hand.
Then this year i said eff it i really want to dunk, i started working out my abs, doing box jumps, toe raises, leg presses
and just making it a habit to jump as much as possible whenever i played ball.
Note: I really wasn't going hard with the workouts, im lazy as hell so its not like i was doing it 5days a week for 10 straight months
or anything like that but over the course of that time i did def get a dramatic increase in my spring.
Back when I could hop, it was what I was doing. Not only do they make you jump higher but you jump faster (stretch myotatic reflex). Like how Shawn Marion, Kenyon Martin, and maybe Amare Stoudemire can be done jumped twice while everybody else is still bending their knees to jump the first time, !%%* was incredible. I was blocking jump shots, get pump faked and jumped, land and still get back up in time to block it while dude you just blocked is looking at you like
I never caught a real oop in a game though, just a bs 2 on none breakaway off the glass and I never got a putback. Those was the only 2 dunks I really wanted to do that I never did.
But now I'm not even close to dunking, I'll still tap glass and got tons of junk, cutesy up and under dippsy doo type switch hands layups, but my vertical is probably like 12-14 inches or more down from my prime, and I'm only 26
Oh, and I probably have every training modality related to jumping that ever came out. I had Jump Soles (let somebody borrow them, now how that goes), I have a Squat Flex which works but it's OD expensive if you didn't get in on the 97$ sale (essentially it's a platform and resistance bands for the hack squat and you can do deadlifts too). Yea you could do the same thing with barbells, but the resistance bands definitely hit and feel differently. I also had a Calf Isolator from SkyKing, used to talk to the creator on AIM sometimes. Some really famous people used it too (2 have won NBA dunk contests), but he was never able to get an official endorsement from them. That's decent, a few other NTers I remember got in on that too when it was new. As far as programs, the only ones I paid for was Scott's Creations (works, tough though, bout an hr 3x a week and the creator stands behind it, even put his personal phone # in it), Air Alert 2 (trash, you'll get tendinitis and all 3 is is they realized after getting so many complaints it was overtraining and changed it to 3x a week instead of 5 but it's still too many contacts), Strength Through Science (www.jumpforsts.com legit, I was bootlegging them and selling them on vert boards and the big dude emailed me all nastygram style threatening to sue me
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Box jumps aka depth jumps are the truth.Originally Posted by Bee GoT GaMe 23
How much do you weigh? you might just have to trim down a bit and focus on working out on key area's and i'm sure you'll get there eventually.
I'm not gunna lie it took me a little while, coming out of high school (2007) i could barely tip the rim
as of late 2009 i was finally able to jump up and grab/hang on to the rim with one hand.
Then this year i said eff it i really want to dunk, i started working out my abs, doing box jumps, toe raises, leg presses
and just making it a habit to jump as much as possible whenever i played ball.
Note: I really wasn't going hard with the workouts, im lazy as hell so its not like i was doing it 5days a week for 10 straight months
or anything like that but over the course of that time i did def get a dramatic increase in my spring.
Back when I could hop, it was what I was doing. Not only do they make you jump higher but you jump faster (stretch myotatic reflex). Like how Shawn Marion, Kenyon Martin, and maybe Amare Stoudemire can be done jumped twice while everybody else is still bending their knees to jump the first time, !%%* was incredible. I was blocking jump shots, get pump faked and jumped, land and still get back up in time to block it while dude you just blocked is looking at you like
I never caught a real oop in a game though, just a bs 2 on none breakaway off the glass and I never got a putback. Those was the only 2 dunks I really wanted to do that I never did.
But now I'm not even close to dunking, I'll still tap glass and got tons of junk, cutesy up and under dippsy doo type switch hands layups, but my vertical is probably like 12-14 inches or more down from my prime, and I'm only 26
Oh, and I probably have every training modality related to jumping that ever came out. I had Jump Soles (let somebody borrow them, now how that goes), I have a Squat Flex which works but it's OD expensive if you didn't get in on the 97$ sale (essentially it's a platform and resistance bands for the hack squat and you can do deadlifts too). Yea you could do the same thing with barbells, but the resistance bands definitely hit and feel differently. I also had a Calf Isolator from SkyKing, used to talk to the creator on AIM sometimes. Some really famous people used it too (2 have won NBA dunk contests), but he was never able to get an official endorsement from them. That's decent, a few other NTers I remember got in on that too when it was new. As far as programs, the only ones I paid for was Scott's Creations (works, tough though, bout an hr 3x a week and the creator stands behind it, even put his personal phone # in it), Air Alert 2 (trash, you'll get tendinitis and all 3 is is they realized after getting so many complaints it was overtraining and changed it to 3x a week instead of 5 but it's still too many contacts), Strength Through Science (www.jumpforsts.com legit, I was bootlegging them and selling them on vert boards and the big dude emailed me all nastygram style threatening to sue me
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good looks to Tru on this one... before some comedians come in here and try to clown this was after 3 - 4 fulls. i was tired
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good looks to Tru on this one... before some comedians come in here and try to clown this was after 3 - 4 fulls. i was tired
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yo this is extremely random but I didn't want to start a thread for it so I found a thread related to the sport atleast....does anyone have the "You Mad?" photo of dwayne wade with the championship ring. let me know asap, thanks
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yo this is extremely random but I didn't want to start a thread for it so I found a thread related to the sport atleast....does anyone have the "You Mad?" photo of dwayne wade with the championship ring. let me know asap, thanks
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i Def that the weight is holding me back from getting up there. i weigh 240 atm, prob gnna be weighing 210 in about 3-4 months, i remember in high school i was touching rim and not i cant get up there
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i Def that the weight is holding me back from getting up there. i weigh 240 atm, prob gnna be weighing 210 in about 3-4 months, i remember in high school i was touching rim and not i cant get up there
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Good $#$ advice there. The key is to do a lot of jumping drills. I never really did jump training. The only thing I would do is try and do stairs with my heels never touching. I mean since I was in 8th grade I wanted to dunk so I would never let me heels touch a step when walking up them.Originally Posted by Bee GoT GaMe 23
How much do you weigh? you might just have to trim down a bit and focus on working out on key area's and i'm sure you'll get there eventually.
I'm not gunna lie it took me a little while, coming out of high school (2007) i could barely tip the rim
as of late 2009 i was finally able to jump up and grab/hang on to the rim with one hand.
Then this year i said eff it i really want to dunk, i started working out my abs, doing box jumps, toe raises, leg presses
and just making it a habit to jump as much as possible whenever i played ball.
Note: I really wasn't going hard with the workouts, im lazy as hell so its not like i was doing it 5days a week for 10 straight months
or anything like that but over the course of that time i did def get a dramatic increase in my spring.
I lost in a dunk contest to a guy who was 5'8. Dude dunked on KG in a high school game. He told me he would do 1,000 calf raises every day. No joke, watching a movie? calf raises. Playing video games? calf raises. Dude was relentless.
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Good $#$ advice there. The key is to do a lot of jumping drills. I never really did jump training. The only thing I would do is try and do stairs with my heels never touching. I mean since I was in 8th grade I wanted to dunk so I would never let me heels touch a step when walking up them.Originally Posted by Bee GoT GaMe 23
How much do you weigh? you might just have to trim down a bit and focus on working out on key area's and i'm sure you'll get there eventually.
I'm not gunna lie it took me a little while, coming out of high school (2007) i could barely tip the rim
as of late 2009 i was finally able to jump up and grab/hang on to the rim with one hand.
Then this year i said eff it i really want to dunk, i started working out my abs, doing box jumps, toe raises, leg presses
and just making it a habit to jump as much as possible whenever i played ball.
Note: I really wasn't going hard with the workouts, im lazy as hell so its not like i was doing it 5days a week for 10 straight months
or anything like that but over the course of that time i did def get a dramatic increase in my spring.
I lost in a dunk contest to a guy who was 5'8. Dude dunked on KG in a high school game. He told me he would do 1,000 calf raises every day. No joke, watching a movie? calf raises. Playing video games? calf raises. Dude was relentless.
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bumpp..merry xmas yall
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bumpp..merry xmas yall
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360 past the 1 minute mark
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How tall are u Fresh? U got ups cuz.... Watched some of those NT pick up games, whats with yall playing so lazy? Everyone walkin up the court and +%%*Originally Posted by l Knicks Fresh Knick l
good looks to Tru on this one... before some comedians come in here and try to clown this was after 3 - 4 fulls. i was tired
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How tall are u Fresh? U got ups cuz.... Watched some of those NT pick up games, whats with yall playing so lazy? Everyone walkin up the court and +%%*Originally Posted by l Knicks Fresh Knick l
good looks to Tru on this one... before some comedians come in here and try to clown this was after 3 - 4 fulls. i was tired
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^He has UPS. Trust me. %%%@ is unfair.
If he could shot like me, GAME OVER.
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^He has UPS. Trust me. %%%@ is unfair.
If he could shot like me, GAME OVER.
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5'8" 165, at the moment, no. About 10 years ago when I was fresh out of high school I dunked a few times. Never in a game though.
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5'8" 165, at the moment, no. About 10 years ago when I was fresh out of high school I dunked a few times. Never in a game though.
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Originally Posted by bijald0331
^He has UPS. Trust me. %%%@ is unfair.If he could shot like me, GAME OVER.
but
D723, im 5'9 good looks man... and The videos due look weak im not gonna lie.. I guess you'd just have to be there to see ..
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Originally Posted by bijald0331
^He has UPS. Trust me. %%%@ is unfair.If he could shot like me, GAME OVER.
but
D723, im 5'9 good looks man... and The videos due look weak im not gonna lie.. I guess you'd just have to be there to see ..
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Originally Posted by l Knicks Fresh Knick l
Originally Posted by bijald0331
^He has UPS. Trust me. %%%@ is unfair.If he could shot like me, GAME OVER.
.. Jump shot got better bro.. on the real ...
but
D723, im 5'9 good looks man... and The videos due look weak im not gonna lie.. I guess you'd just have to be there to see ..
Videos don't look weak at all. Its just we been desensitized by dudes like Blake Griffin and team flight bros. You see my 2 hand 360 tho. I might have to come up to NYC this summer.
