gaining hops

[dantheman00114]

what exercises should i do to get a higher verticle jump? any suggestions?

[Ridenour]

In our weight room at school we have a thing for that. Against one wall, we have like 1.5 foot by 1.5 foot wide boxes (maybe 6 inches high each) and we stack em against the wall. You stack a few, face em, and then jump up ontop of them, even if it's only for a second (just land your feet on them and then push off). You keep increasing the number of boxes the higher you jump. After a couple sets of jumps up there and back down, you really start to feel it. As far as actual weights, I would reccomend deadlift and leg press.

[-Jayson-]

running is a really good way to build hops, im only 5'11" and i can dunk a volley ball, just not a basketball cause i cant palm it. I used to run cross country and track.

[Implode]

Google Plyometrics.

[Gotti]

white man can't jump

[-Jayson-]

im white. . .i can jump, i can jump over myself. And the whole thing about black guys being able to jump. . .please. When i was doing high jump for track almost 90% of the time a white kid would win. Hell i could jump overmyself and that beat most of the black kids that would high jump. Sprinting is a different story though. . .

[mospeed1]

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...d.php?t=263121

[Gotti]

Originally Posted by -Jayson-

im white. . .i can jump, i can jump over myself. And the whole thing about black guys being able to jump. . .please. When i was doing high jump for track almost 90% of the time a white kid would win. Hell i could jump overmyself and that beat most of the black kids that would high jump. Sprinting is a different story though. . .

thats high jump tho, technique is more important in that. I'm talking about just verticle jump, look at people like steve francis, he's not that tall but he can jump 40+ inches. Also why you dont see that many white guys in dunk competitions.

but it was just a joke anyway, thread reminded me of the movie

[pnoiSR20]

There is this thing in EastBay magazine about products to increase vertical jump. You might wanna look at that.

[whttrshpunk]

Originally Posted by Gotti

white man can't jump

http://movies.collegehumor.com/media/movies/remix.mov


Now apologize.


(watch without download)
http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=100628

[Gotti]

^ lol that was a joke referring to the movie

but anyway, so how come white guys cant do it in the NBA? I think that guy on that video was just a rare specimen lol But on average black people have higher verticle jumps

i'm white btw....

[travis712]

Most white people in the NBA seem to be people that take 3 pointers. Maybe it seems black people in the NBA can dunk better is because they usually come from places where you have to be EXCELLENT to make it(in some cases). So the compitition is harder. Nobody take this offensive, as it was not meant to be at all.