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Postby The GOAT on Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:10 pm

actually he's 100% italian. i live in a white neighborhood :idea:
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Postby Cable on Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:13 pm

:lol: Whatever. That reminds me of one of my friends, his nickname in elementary school was 'The Italian Stallion'.
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Postby Username123 on Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:16 pm

I am 6'1 and still cant touch the rim. My vertical is 17".
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Postby hipn on Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:34 pm

My vertical is a disappointment, 21-22 inches.
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Postby Rip32 on Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:47 pm

hipn wrote:My vertical is a disappointment, 21-22 inches.


:lol:

My vert is 29 or 30 I dont remember, but run like miles with ankle weights (5lbs) or buy a pair of jump soles.
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Postby Jing on Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:57 pm

hm. good point, i never measured my vert.

my dunks have always come off at least 3 or 4 dribbles first with a running start.

but man ur still young, keep working at it
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Postby TRUball on Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:11 pm

Rip32 wrote:
hipn wrote:My vertical is a disappointment, 21-22 inches.


:lol:

My vert is 29 or 30 I dont remember, but run like miles with ankle weights (5lbs) or buy a pair of jump soles.


I wouldn't do that. That can really mess up your knees if you aren't careful. Nothing is wrong with wearing ankle weights if you are just wearing them while, like walking around school, or walking home, or walking around your house. But if you start running with them, it can be dangerous.
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Postby Pera on Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:13 pm

The G.O.A.T. wrote:
Anthony15 wrote:
D_Wade #3 wrote:I'm 13, i can touch the rim :!:


Where is the j/k after that funny writing.

On TOPIC: Try to jump and touch the rim everyday, you'll stretch out in height, but will jump higher as well.
I believe that, my friend is 14, about 5'7" and can dunk. im not lying here swear to god.

I'm about the same height as your frend is,but im two years younger then him.
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Postby koberulz on Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:43 pm

im around 6' to 6'1", turning 15 in july, i can dunk off two steps when i'm warmed up properly.
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Postby The GOAT on Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:41 am

Pera wrote:
The G.O.A.T. wrote:
Anthony15 wrote:
D_Wade #3 wrote:I'm 13, i can touch the rim :!:


Where is the j/k after that funny writing.

On TOPIC: Try to jump and touch the rim everyday, you'll stretch out in height, but will jump higher as well.
I believe that, my friend is 14, about 5'7" and can dunk. im not lying here swear to god.

I'm about the same height as your frend is,but im two years younger then him.
only a year he just turned 14 a week or two ago.
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Postby cklitsie on Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:23 am

Stop bragging everyone, because if not too tall white boys like me and VanK can dunk there's nothing special about it anymore. :lol:
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Postby Jing on Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:36 am

or under 6 feet chinese dudes :mrgreen:
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Postby Chris. on Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:35 am

damn all you american people are tall :lol: im 5'9 and 15 not sure what my vert is and i haven't recently tried touching the rim but i remember last year I touched it and i was shorter so im ok where i am at the moment
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Postby -BHZMAFIA- on Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:42 am

I'm about 6'1 or 6'2 now, I don't know. I've grown some inches since last summer and I was 5'10 or 5'11. I could dunk with a nice sprint to the goal at that height, and now I can dunk pretty much with ease, but no fancy stuff, just one or two hands. I have so much respect for the people that can do like 360 windmills and stuff because when you actually try that yourself, its like the hardest thing in the world to do because its hard enough for some people to dunk at all. I don't know what the hell my vertical leap :lol: To help you out, just do some jump roping and calf raises and jumping up and down trying to touch the backboard like a 100 times and if you do that everyday, you should be jumping a little higher.
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Postby Its_asdf on Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:52 am

dunking is a bitch. I understand why some players don't like to dunk, because it really hurts like hell. I dunked on smaller rims before and I got bruises all over my wrists. I wonder how the likes of Stoudemire and Josh Smith can constantly slam the ball so hard.
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Postby Jing on Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:39 am

Its_asdf wrote:dunking is a bitch. I understand why some players don't like to dunk, because it really hurts like hell. I dunked on smaller rims before and I got bruises all over my wrists. I wonder how the likes of Stoudemire and Josh Smith can constantly slam the ball so hard.


agreed, and also how vince does pullups on the net. i tried during that before one game, i bursted some veins in my right hand after like 2 pullups.
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Postby The GOAT on Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:11 am

thats not hard, ive done that. how did you burst a vein?
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Postby Jing on Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:07 am

i dunno. i pulled up once, came down, pull up again, and my handed just started hurting, it felt like i got cut with a knife, i dropped down and my middle finger and the ring(?) finger were purple and red and there were.. so i guess its fingers.

guess it was just a dumb thing to do.
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Postby The GOAT on Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:33 pm

(N) ouch, that sucks. I only did three but I'm just glad that didn't happen to me.
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Postby TRUball on Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:22 pm

Wow... it doesn't hurt that much... Try it with chain netting, now THAT hurts... :(
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Postby Tuomas on Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:03 pm

dunking is so much about teqhnique too... I know some people that have messed up their hands pretty badly because they try to slam the ball so hard... you never see the best dunkers hurt themselves dunking
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Postby Jugs on Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:44 pm

My friend who's 6 foot 3 and who can dunk, we were playing some ball yesterday and he wanted to dunk on me (5 foot 7). He went up for it and posterised me :( his crotch was in my face and he kneed me in the head too.

So my point is, being posterized is not fun for the posteree
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Postby hipn on Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:01 am

I noticed that NBA players kind of throw the ball into the hoop and grab onto the rim, instead what we all do, is litterally put the ball in with our hands, causing our wrists to bruise/hurt/bleed.
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Postby Jing on Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:10 am

Jugs. wrote:My friend who's 6 foot 3 and who can dunk, we were playing some ball yesterday and he wanted to dunk on me (5 foot 7). He went up for it and posterised me :( his crotch was in my face and he kneed me in the head too.

So my point is, being posterized is not fun for the posteree


it aint fun. i guess thats why most of the guys in the nba get out of the way when someone goes for a big dunk.
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Postby nbalive744 on Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:31 am

I feel so small around you people, I am 13 and under 4'11".
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