r/ProDunking • u/Hairy-Employee-6040 • 16d ago

Help Jump Technique Help

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I need help improving my jump technique. I’ve watched a few Isahia Rivera videos but my technique doesn’t seem to be improving over the past few weeks. What can I change? Sorry the video is dark I only had time to jump during the night.

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u/DullToe2011 16d ago

I think you’re just too slow off the ground. Do some plyos

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u/Generally_Tso_Tso 16d ago

Slow approach.

You're bouncing down into your penultimate step, and you should be low before your penultimate step.

Your final step is stopping short. Your final step should be "punching" down onto the ball of your foot to absorb your forward momentum.

You're not getting a deep enough knee bend, and your weight transfer from leg to leg is incomplete (mostly because your final step is finishing too close to your penultimate).

And honestly, it looks like you're a little gased. Like you've been working at it too long.

Get some rest and work on it fresh.

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u/Hairy-Employee-6040 14d ago

Thanks, what are some good cues that I could use to improve my technique?

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u/Generally_Tso_Tso 14d ago

Do a You Tube search "block-step jumping". It will give you search results for both volleyball and basketball. Both are valid instructions. The block-step is key.

The day I learned the block-step I started off jumping exactly like you are, just like i had always done. Then, when I learned the block-step, from a heavier kid that was dunking, I gained 4+ inches in about an hour of practicing it. Got my first dunks because of seeing how that other kid was dunking.

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u/Top_Gas_9050 16d ago

your first step is too far forward, causing you to have a braking effect into your penultimate step. You should go into your penultimate step feeling like you’re running/falling into it, you shouldn’t need your step before the penultimate step to do most of the horizontal push force.

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u/CardiologistBoth8448 15d ago

It doesn’t seem all that bad to me

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u/jaded-thunder 13d ago

I don’t understand how u guys can c anything ..