Question for you about dunking: my current touch height is about 10’9 from a 1-foot takeoff. Yesterday I had about 15 missed dunks (off the back of the rim or backboard) and 1 semi-dunk (not very powerful by any means). I can barely palm a ball when I’m not running, so when I go up to dunk, I tend to lose control of the ball and can’t dunk it. Any tips? Does the direction I approach matter? Does distance from the rim matter? I was running across the course (parallel to the baseline) and trying to jam it down as I floated past.
that’s a nice reach ! do you have any videos ? how do you jump, off 1 or 2 legs ?
More vert is the easy solution… But I think if you’re going off 1 leg and your dunk hand is under the ball it will always slip away.
Try to go up forcefully with the palm on the side/top of the ball like Lebron James. That way all you need to do is thrust it down. That’s what I do… And you don’t have to palm it to do that.
No videos of the dunk attempts. When trying to dunk I jump off my left and drive the ball up from underneath, and it almost always slips away as you say. 
When you say go up forcefully, is the ball still just being held by the dunking hand?
I’m pretty close to the same vert off 2 feet but I use my arms so much to swing through on a 2 foot attempt I think I’d lose a couple inches if I was holding onto the ball while jumping off 2.
I’m leaving tomorrow to a highschool meet. If my legs are feeling good I’ll try again next week with video.
I’ll tell you what… I’m going to dunk with some friends and a couple cameras today… I’ll make a 1 legged dunk with minimal jump and you’ll see how it’s possible
Good luck with the meet ! Crush them
I would think the exercises would continue to help (to a degree or at least prevent further worsening) over the short term. I would recommend finding someone who is well versed in manual therapy and corrective exercise quickly though. You need to make sure there is no instability, etc. and there is no way to judge that through discussion. That has to be hands on. My recommendation for a manual therapist is to find one who follows a Maitland/Australian approach. There are plenty of other good schools of thought, though. Just make sure they are adjusting to you and the way you present vs. forcing you to fit into their system.
Good luck with everything. Let me know if you have any questions or need anything else.
The movements indeed helped… Ran a full 3 hours of dunking/football 100% smooth ! Let’s see how I wake up tomorrow.
Climbon man, thanks ! It’s good to have you here.
Well I’m coaching, and I hope so.
How was the meet rainy ?
Managed to slip a good session today at the track because of the back movements… But after 4 good sled accels it showed locking signs again so I called it a day.
Medball throws 4kg standard size (like a small basketball)
6 throws forward + dive and roll on grass (lol @ the looks from the long runners)
6 dives onto HJ mat
6 throws reverse thrust
6 throws shotput
Heavy 40kg Sled/Track contrast
20m Sled + 10m
20m Sled + 20m 2.65 HT
20m Sled + 30m 3.70 HT
20M Sled + DNF 40y facet lock
Observations… While the contrast feels good power wise… It doesn’t do well for the mechanics of the raw sprints afterwards. They feel good but on video they are too messy I guess it’s fine up to a certain point… I’ll cut the contrasts for now and do either or.
Box jump from seated position, full pause. 3X3 at 50"
VJ’s with approach step to the same 50", too easy, again need to get more platforms.
Sled start
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Chargers dog
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Weights I did last night. Block cleans from knee, 4x2 at 90kg (again scared as shit from back tightness)
Front full squat with pause, 110kg 5x3
Bulgarian squats 60kg 3x6 each leg
Upper was 2 days before that.
Flat bench 120kg 5x3,then 225 x 15 burnout
DB floor press 3x8 48kg
Pullups up to 50 reps
biceps
Some nice dunking today, relative to 3 High days in a row. (Max bench, max legs, then friday sprints) Today I dunked for a couple hours, and tomorrow football 
Woof…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28H3nXZ-UmA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDX-NRpAe40
And a cool little basket from a game last month
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KECW7oAzFz0
I’m an idiot, i know… But I can’t dunk on sprint days or weight days… Ahhh, there aren’t enough days in the week.
It was great; my girl won both her races pretty comfortably in her last year of highschool (it was a highschool championships). She could have run a provincial highschool record in one of them but there is an important race next weekend, so she cruised to an easy win in that race.
Football load has been sky high, didn’t have energy to even do a single leg weight session for the past month… It started with a commitment to national team training which was hard till now, then NFL clinic with past coaches and players from the league coming to help out in Israel.
Now the local club training is starting, so more training load… BUT, I love it, American Football is new to me and to Israel generally and it’s very exciting and interesting and plus some of these guys have been playing since they were 6 and they also move like they were born on turf… So I have to catch up.
One good thing that came out of this is due to the very high acceleration workloads, I can now accelerate to 90% of my best time almost every day. Not that it’s smart training, but my capacity to shoot out fast accelerations has gone up. It’s much easier to produce.
One bad thing, seems like my back is going through a long term inflammation process… It has now moved away from the joints, and away from restriction, and onto more of a muscular feel. It’s good because I can do anything now… it’s improving every week.
Yesterday’s work;
50" Seated box jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6BWoD6lso
20m sled sprint, 85lb
How is your back holding up?
Thanks for asking !
Back since then has been Like New ! No problems whatsoever… Back to full blast.
Won the dunk meet yesterday… 360, Between the legs, elbow dunk and 180 double pump Videos soon !
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