Thanks for visiting dunkbonds.com, the dormant Rails app I built to gamify charitable contributions toward personal goals, piloted around my goal to dunk. You'll notice I have made zero effort to update its style, so it still harkens back to its original 2011-era mint.com inspiration, when it was likely already looking pretty dated. Have a click around!
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October 01, 2012

The Wrong Jump

A few of my friends have a saying: "You're doing it wrong."

I've been reading up on single-leg jumping technique, and I think I've been doing it wrong all along, probably ever since middle school high jump. 

It turns out that the widely accepted technique for an optimal running jump is a proper penultimate step.  Specifically, this second to last step needs to be longer than the ones before, with the final step being short and quick.  I somehow wound up doing the opposite, with my final two steps being short-long. 

This is good news.  It represents some relatively free, untapped potential once I get the hang of the proper jumping technique.  I'll have to correct a bad habit, but project DUNK is essentially an exercise in habits.  I've already begun incorporating penultimate drills into my dunk-specific and plyo workouts, and while it was tricky and disappointing at first, I can already tell it will be beneficial moving forupward.