Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Does it seem like this to you as well when it comes to certain NBA dunkers and their styles when they jumped?

To me in my opinion. It seems like every NBA dunker has their own expression of body movement when they go up for a dunk that looks like their natural body language or self expression. I will give you perfect examples. To me when Dominique Wilkins jumped it looked like he had springs on the bottom of his shoes when he jumped, "Dr.J" Julius Erving when he jumped his jump was weird. I've never seen anything like his jump in my life when he went up for a dunk. It always looked like he was on the moon. You know how astronauts when they jump it looks lofty looking with an extreme amount of hang time to come back down on the moon.That's what Dr. J's dunks always looked like to me as if he was an astronaut on the moon when he jumped because it took forever for him to land and it wasn't nothing quick off the jump either sort of like slow motion. Vince Carter always looked to me like he was trying to stretch his body out as far as he could when he jumped, sort of like he was trying to touch the roof of the gym with his hands when he went up for a dunk, like he was Stretch Armstrong or Inspector Gadget..."Go Go Gadget Arms!" LOL Shawn Kemp always in my opinion just seemed like he was trying to get there as fast as he can with as much power as he can, Shawn Kemp reminded me when he went up for a dunk like a Bradley Tank with the speed of a Lambroghini or a Ferrari. So much power and so much speed at the same time when he took off for a dunk.There's others but I noticed these guys all had different jumping styles. Ever notice this as well? Clyde Drexler used to do those funky dunks. 360 two handed dunks and when he jumped it looked effortless as if the more relaxed he was on the take off the higher the jump when usually it's the opposite with high flyers.

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