Does anyone know anything about this jumping"secrets"

jasong

http://www.basketballpro.com/jump.htm

If anyone knows anything about this or knows some of the "secrets", or if you know any other good methods for ju,ping higher, PLMK, thanks

autobilia

Just jump and practice trying to touch the rim (which stengthens your legs).

jasong

thanks auto, for me its like the backboard, heheh, anyone else?

Colt

I just put ankle weights on every day, I wear them at school and everything, i play ball witha weight vest and jump rope alot.

jasong

thanks colt, i tried to get in the habit of jump roping, does anyone know about any of these secrets? ...........http://www.basketballpro.com/jump.htm

Colt

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Colt

Jumping prgrams are usually disapointing, they just give you hard exercise and tell you to jump rope alot and to do boxes

batman34

At the beggining of last school year my vertical was 19.5 inches. I got put on a weight program doing alot of leg lifts but hang cleans and squats mainly and last month i test again and my VJ was 26 inches. 6.5 inches in a year and a half. I don't play bball but i thought you might like to know.

If you don't know what a hang clean is it's kinda hard to explain, but i think a weight program is the way to go.

autobilia

<< <i>I just put ankle weights on every day, I wear them at school and everything, i play ball witha weight vest and jump rope alot. >>



ankle weight while jumping wears down the cartledge in your knees because as you jump, you body goes up while weight pulls down (pulling at your nearest joints). Once you land, it adds gravity to your landing which does a number on your knees over time.

Jump rope is good. Plus jumping up and down touching the backboard strengthen your legs, but if you do it too much, you will be like Jason Richardson (always jump off of 2 feet to dunk which is why he couldn't do the free-throw line dunk in the dunk contest).

jasong

batman-that is very impressive, you mainly did squats and squats with weight?

auto-i heard somebody talk about the ankle weights ruining your knees when your older, I would rather only be able to jump off to feet then only be able to jump off one leg. I will try that backboard exercise out.

Thanks everybody for your replies