(Not hating ofc). Please fix your penultimate step already. You are wasting a lot of potential because of that. Trust me or not but I think you could already dunk at this point with perfect form.
@@T1_Strong Personally I often just force myself to do long penultimate by finding good spot for throwing self lob. When the spot happens to be good, I am just forced to naturally do good penultimate because the distance matches.
Yeah that's the thing that stands out the most to me too. I'm not an expert by any stretch, but I was a state high jumper as a youngster, and national level of a sport nobody knows about that requires a lot of hops (Australian Rules Football). Just in terms of biomechanics, it's hard to spring upwards without YOUR springs (legs) being coiled at least somewhat. It's just a smaller-scale version of the amount of force a deep squat jump generates versus jumping without bending your knees. You're very obviously intelligent, and you know your stuff in terms of biology and training. Use the same scientific approach for technique too! You're gonna dunk really soon mate. 🏀💪
Personally I’ve tried jumping off 1 leg and I don’t jump nearly as high. There’s people who have success with both ways but for me I’m a much better 2 foot jumper.
Your form is not good, u need to throw yourself as far as you can b4 u plant to jump. U got this man. I'm a week from turning 43 and I made a decision earlier 2nite I was gonna dunk again. It's been 5 years
Aside from fixing your penultimate step, that people already talked about (it needs to be longer), you should try to add a bit more of a curve to your run up, by adding the curve you make it easier to translate horizontal movement into vertical, as you are losing some of that momentum with your current approach That being said, awesome improvement, and I hope you manage to dunk soon (really think you already could if you fixed your form) Cheers from Brazil
Noted, thank you for the feedback and the kind comment! I’m doing my best to fix my form and my flexibility because I think that is what I’m really missing!
When I was in college they had these shoes called strength shoes where the toes and ball of the foot were elevated such that the heel was off the ground. Even running the heel never touches the ground. I did my normal plyometric workouts with these. I would say I gained about 3-4” of vertical from those workouts. Not sure if those shoes still exist but I highly recommend them.
@@T1_Strong I ran a half-marathon recently because I'm a weirdo.... and I heard a bunch of people who actually know about running talking about the new running "supershoes". Surely basketball sneakers will go the same way VERY quickly, right? Running "Supershoes" have carbon fibre plates embedded in ultralight hyper-responsive foam, and seem to be helping most runners shatter their personal best times. Seems like this will be an obvious next step for basketball shoes! Or maybe it's already happened and I'm behind the times??
You’re not exploding it enough, the way you swing your arms start from top to bottom then top. You need to start the swing from low then reach up. Also stop hopping into your jump, on the last step you hop for some reason
The last thrust forward to jump should be a longer distance. Your killing your momentum with the short step and bend your knees a little bit more when you jump. Thats what the other guy was saying about the penultimate step suggestion.
@T1_Strong do it at jogging speed and then go a tad fast each time. You need to jump a quarter step further in distance. Focus on jumping from further. I bet that solves the issue 1st attempt. I'm 5'9 and used to be able to dunk here and there but hang time is mainly what I had. You achieve hangtime by sorta double pumping your reach as your approaching peek height. It gives you a boost of momentum upward.
You lose too much speed on your pen/block f, right before the actual jump... You should try using A LOT more speed and this will instantly fix both your penultimate and block foot steps. And by A LOT, I mean, try running not twice as faster, but at your maximum.
@@T1_Strong But yeah, essentially, I get a bit angry because you put so much training effort, and then you just need a simple fix, which I really think is your lack of speed. GL!
@@T1_StrongI get what they're saying; how could you claim to be unbiased when you have a cash incentive (via the referrals) to get more people to buy them. That could easily create a bias. I do think it appears you tried to be as objective as possible in your review though...except for the suggestion that some people may see a two inch increase in their jumps.
with the vktry insoles I wouldn't recommend them for ppl who can barely jump I think the higher u can jump the more they can help with bring out that last bit of potential
To be completely honest I didn’t do quite as much for a while because I didn’t have access to a gym. Even so, this was definitely an off day and I wasn’t jumping as high as usual. As of now I’m back to training hard and following my program so I’ll get back to where I was in no time!
How can you possibly get cranky about this? He very clearly stated all potential bias or lack thereof. He gave more transparent disclosure than any of us are used to.... and you still make a snarky comment? He didn't get paid, but they sent them to him for no cost. What else could you possibly want him to say/do to satisfy your scepticism? 😅😅
