By Sean Connolly
I was playing ball the other day, and I usually play with this guy who’s in his late 30′s who coaches a high school basketball team. Now, I’m faster and a little bit stronger than him and he still manages to out-jump me on every rebound. To be honest, I was sick of gettin’ embarrassed.
So, I tried to bring up why he jumps higher than me even though he’s like one inch shorter, but of course my pride came into play. I didn’t want to ask an advercary how he’s better than me. So, I initiated a conversation about the practice regimens he gives his kids. He starts talking about it, you know the same old same old…sprints, lay-ups, and passing. I start asking if he’s got any big guys, he said no, none at all. I laughed and said they must suck, to which he responded we went undefeated last season. There’s my opening. I asked him, ‘don’t your guys just get roughed up on the boards if they’re all short?’ He said ‘no, I got a secret. It’s something my dad taught me when I was a kid, and growing up I was usually the shortest but I could jump the highest.’
So here’s what he told me…
He said to do two types of vertical jumps in succession straight for like a minute and do about 5 sets a day.
- The first one you bend your knees and your hips and hold it for like 5 seconds before jumping, and then jump as high up as you possibly can.
- Then when you land you do the same bending but jump up immediately and then when you come down you do the jump where you hold it for 5 seconds, and so on and so on.
So, that’s it. I’ve been doing it for about a week now and I haven’t seen anything drastic yet but I haven’t played in a while. I think I should be able to get out and play sometime this week and hopefully I’ll see some sort of results, or at least get one rebound over this guy.
Josh Howard on National Anthem: “I don’t even celebrate that $@!*”
Sep 16
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By Sean Connolly
To Do List To Ruin My Reputation
By Josh Howard
Surely that’s the end of the list. Right? Well before Josh Howard does anything else to make himself look worse, let’s talk about his most recent moronic move in which he tells everyone that he doesn’t ‘celebrate’ the national anthem(who celebrates the national anthem? I usually just sing along or acknowledge it, I leave the pinatas out of it).
At a celebrity flag football event hosted by Allen Iverson, rapper Los attended the event unfortunately for Howard, with a camera. While the Star Spangled Banner is going on, Howard is seen ignoring the song and then comes up to the camera and says the following…
What a fool. How disrespectful can you get? I guess Josh took the phrase bad publicity is better than no publicity. Here’s some advice, lay low ’till the season starts and shut your mouth.
Here’s the link to the video…http://youbeenblinded.com/video-josh-howard-doesnt-celebrate-the-national-anthem/2001
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