Austin Is Switching To 2 Foot
That was really fun. That helped the time pass.
John:Alrighty. So what's up, guys? Welcome to the teach me strength podcast.
Austin:My name is Bill Evans. I am John's identical twin brother.
John:Is here. We are we're gonna keep this one short. Probably keep it about ten minutes. We're actually gonna look at the topic today is going to be Austin's What? Austin's previous previous jumping.
John:Austin's previous jumping, where he was at. We're gonna look at old videos. We're gonna review it. And, yeah, that'll that'll be the topic for today. So Okay.
John:Let's get it started. Do do you guys have screen share access?
Austin:I don't know, man. You don't want me to screen share. I'm gonna
John:be real with you. Isaiah, can you screen share? Yeah. So let's find great
Speaker 3:I can't use screen share.
John:Well, I don't know what videos you wanna look of our friend Austin.
Austin:Are we looking at two foot? Because of my two foot journey that's coming up?
John:Anything. Yeah. Well, you can look at that.
Austin:I'm switching two foot for a while. A long while.
John:Let's look at some of your jumps.
Austin:Was it what's a good video for that day? Like, fucking That's
John:what was asking.
Speaker 3:I you would know better than me.
Austin:Probably Nick Briz, Austin Berkey, Nick Briz one. Alright. Let's let's watch. Or, like, a dunkademics. You know, dunkademics.
John:Are you
Speaker 3:pulling it up, John?
John:Yeah. I I can get it. Austin Berkey. Let me see if
Austin:I can find one too.
John:Nick Briz. One foot session?
Austin:Yeah. It's a one foot session, but it's, like, a lot of two foot.
John:Alright. On Isaiah's
Austin:Hey. Was was it Room 98 at this time or 99?
Speaker 3:98.
John:2 B 2 B.
Austin:It kept moving. Remember? Let me see if I can find it. Okay. That makes
Speaker 4:Oh, no.
John:I got it. I got it. Oh, it's fine.
Austin:This one, another two foot session, but it's in the end of an Anthony
John:hype video or something. Right? Let's see what we got here. We got screen share. Here we go.
John:You like what you see? I am not. Who is this who is this handsome individual right here? No sound or sound. What do you guys think?
Speaker 3:Oh, I think sound. Minimal minimal sound.
John:Minimal sound? Yeah.
Austin:I'm gonna get so sad after this.
John:How's this? Oh, this is when
Austin:I was trying to learn free throw, and I was gonna run through some socks like that was gonna do something. At me trying to do a track, but look at
John:that stupid ass. Oh, I'm on green hair.
Speaker 3:See. Joe.
John:Oh, Joe. Oh. Okay. Oh. Who is that?
Austin:That's Joe.
Speaker 3:This room was solo. Holy cow.
Austin:You'll see in a second, John. Like, I was doing one step three sixties. It was fucking nutty.
John:Saw your green hair. Forgot.
Austin:Yeah. This fucking video. Albert Monkey Man.
John:How old were you in this?
Austin:21. I was sober. That was, like, the most random jump date ever. I hit three spades this session. Crazy.
John:What was in Bruce's hand?
Austin:I don't know. Boss water or something. When do I start doing something cool, bro? We
Speaker 3:got two new notes already. Wow. I feel like I'm why is there, like, a newscaster thing on our video?
John:I don't know. I don't know what you're talking
Austin:Yeah. I sent you guys another one in the chat. It's the end of the video.
Speaker 3:Berkey's calling for the lay in.
John:The fact that Bill Evans is so funny, by the way. Oh. We wanna speed this up so we go, like
Austin:It's about to I'm about to start doing a bunch of stuff, I think. I think the beginning of the video is just slow.
Speaker 3:I do have something to say. Go back to this real quick. Go back to the tomahawk. Awesome. This is to make you feel better about your bounce now.
Speaker 3:So play it super slow and then play it like right on the on the finish. Right here. Keep going. Keep going. Right here, start playing frame by frame.
John:I am.
Austin:Right now.
Speaker 3:Frame by frame. You would have rimmed stuff the ever living hell out of that on Goldenrod right now.
Austin:Yeah. It's true. Yeah. I think the next one's better.
John:Your timing is immaculate.
Speaker 3:That is like a perfect dunk, though.
Austin:I used to well, I used to be really consistent, like, when we were but we were dunking, what, like, twice a week then? And, like, I wasn't really lifting.
Speaker 3:No. This was I was always once once a week.
Austin:No. I think we're dunking twice a week this time.
John:Maybe you were, but you weren't supposed to be.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Oh,
Austin:no. This is This
Speaker 3:is Greenhair Chronicles. I was definitely once a week.
Austin:Oh, this is my impulsive session, day, I think. There's another tomahawk right after that that's really nasty.
John:This is the peak height of the jump. There's but watch the pull up on the rim and the rim down. Look at that. That was a 50 inch jump. Like that.
Austin:Because he'd shit on me there, and I got pissed. So I was
John:like, fuck you, man.
Austin:Because I wasn't I was warming up still. Yeah. I I like this this type of stuff makes me wanna like,
John:What happened there? Hold on. Like my.
Austin:Look at like I jumped a little bit more but
John:I think this.
Speaker 3:I think that was still a rim stuff on Goldenrod now.
Austin:Oh my god. You're you're crazy.
Speaker 3:I'm getting the wait. Go. Let's let's review it. Let's review it.
Austin:It's hard to see what the light.
John:You don't have to wonder, guys. We don't have to
Austin:where's the rim?
Speaker 3:Alright. Frame my frame.
John:Nah. It was clean.
Speaker 3:But think about the rim being two inches higher or an inch inch and a half.
Austin:I don't know what Isaiah's trying to do with this video. Hurt me?
Speaker 3:Or No. I'm saying I'm saying because you you talk you talk about
John:your prime.
Speaker 3:You talk about your prime.
Austin:Said My problem is 2020. This was, like, my two foot trick. Like, I couldn't do these tricks on nine seven anymore, 09/08. Like, I don't think
John:On 09/08?
Austin:Well, once we get into the three sixties, you'll see what I mean. Like, I wish we had the full balls life sessions, The one, like, the one that Scottie wasn't Oh, yeah. When I was, like, backrooming 360 East Bays and stuff on that room.
Speaker 3:My the the whole point I'm trying to make, I think if he focused on two foot for a month, he'd be better than this right now.
Austin:Yeah. I definitely am jumping way higher.
John:We we did a nine eight rim that's soft as fuck.
Austin:Wait. Keep keep going to the video. I wanna see I want you to see the three sixties. Like, these were nutty. Like like, John specifically, and I have this weird two footer here.
Austin:I remember this. It's like, it felt like got I got the ripped up cookies.
John:Oh, Nick. Oh,
Austin:I I used look. That two foot looks so weird. Did you see athletic that looked? It made no sense. Like, watch the takeoff.
Speaker 4:Like, you're watching them.
John:Getting froggy.
Austin:It was just like, boing. Dude, I remember Brizz coming in the gym, doing like what? Like, some stretching, some upper body? This is super
John:right here,
Austin:dude. Alright. Wait. I want I wish
John:we where is this cool shot?
Austin:I would skip a little bit forward, maybe, like, a
John:minute, Loki. Is that what you guys both think?
Speaker 3:I think so. I think this turns into, like, a one foot party.
Austin:Wait. Oh, there. I started doing dunks again. I think it's, like, right. I started doing March and stuff.
John:DJ getting hype is awesome.
Austin:Yeah. I think yeah.
John:Oh my god.
Speaker 3:I still feel the same, man. These are misses on Goldenrod right now.
Austin:But but here, that I couldn't
John:make. Yeah.
Austin:I do agree with you. It's weird thinking that because I think it's like seeing how consistent I was and shit. Like, it's definitely just practice that I jumped way higher. Mhmm. I'm also light as hell.
Austin:Like, I probably wasn't a one fifty in this. This shit impressed
Speaker 3:me. That was crazy.
John:I don't know
Austin:how I did that.
Speaker 3:Really bad, basically.
Austin:Oh, your favorite.
John:Isaiah loved it. The fact that Austin knows exactly where the reactions are. I
Austin:well, it's kinda like Pavlov, bro. That's how I treat dunking. If Isaiah doesn't respond, I think I suck.
John:Like, how good is crazy.
Austin:Damn. You think Isaiah can surpass this pretty quickly?
John:At this time?
Speaker 3:No. I think I was being a smart boy and not doing it.
Austin:You got yourself a smart Oh.
Speaker 3:That was freaking smooth.
Austin:Thank you. That fucking dude, when I'm confident, my dismounts are so badass. When I'm insecure, I just fall. Dismounts.
John:Not a gymnast. Oh, look at that. Look at that ugly ass fucking plant. Honestly. Who is that?
John:You look at a frog.
Austin:I don't hear it.
Speaker 3:Rim rim stuff, man. It would all be rim stuff. Now now put a 10 foot rim in the picture.
Austin:I'm I'm just hitting the net.
John:No. This
Austin:is Goodness. Elbow dunk ever, I will actually cry. I I I miss when Isaiah was impressed by things. The power to the sound of
John:It's a Russian accent. He's quiet. Dude, it
Austin:looks crazy.
Speaker 3:And I this is when I started developing the Russian accent.
John:Isaiah, I mean, Austin, I saw you East Bay on an outdoor rim that was nine nine off two feet.
Austin:That was a handoff, though. That's way easier. Was trying to do it off the dribble. I didn't even pump that ball up. What the hell?
Speaker 3:Yeah. We're gonna enact our rules. We John, I I I made a a rule training system. Should do training system for all that.
Austin:Wait. What's the rule?
Speaker 3:So, there's a list of that was a pretty good, pretty good high check.
Austin:Thanks.
Speaker 3:Wait. We have the video. The the high check. I recorded Yeah. Have I recorded the high check for you?
John:Yeah. Right there.
Speaker 3:We have a recent. Do have it in your phone?
Austin:Yeah. The recent one?
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah. Pull it up. Pull it up.
John:Oh my god.
Speaker 3:Yeah. We're about to we're about to compare 2022 and 2024. Go to the high check again.
Austin:That was my first that was a shitty session too though, low key. Like, that was like my bony jump in.
John:Wait. What do you want me to do? Pause the video.
Austin:Hold on. I have to find the video. Are you gonna go I think I do another high check-in
John:a second message
Austin:today in that video.
John:Yeah.
Austin:Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hold Give me a second.
Speaker 3:I'll have the video there, John, on the high check.
Austin:But So you want you want the high angle too? Done. Yeah. Done.
Speaker 3:Yeah. You give us a good comparison. Oh, this is like almost the exact same angle. Mhmm. John, you seeing it?
Austin:So I'm jumping basically the same height.
John:Let me, let me switch my screen here. Because this
Austin:room is higher in this video. I wish we measured it every time we went. Jesus Christ.
John:Yeah. I know. That's what we go. Oh, wait. When was this?
Austin:Like, right before Wisconsin, the week before, and then
John:I couldn't dunk. The fuck. Alright. Go.
Speaker 3:So you're you were probably jumping, I would say, like, an inch higher. Yeah. In this video. Then that Wisconsin session.
Austin:Oh, oh, the one before Wisconsin. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Austin:Yeah.
John:So, wait, you said Austin Austin was jumping how much higher?
Speaker 3:I think like an inch higher here than
Austin:Up two. Which makes sense. I didn't dunk at all before that session for like a month, and I don't really practice the two foot shit. Yeah.
John:Okay. Yeah. I just wanted to
Austin:That's still I probably have, like, a 43 in this video.
John:You guys like the ticker? Look at the ticker on the bottom.
Austin:Awesome jumping an inch. I earn his prime. Is it is it doing it is it doing it like, this is not my prime AI. What is it? What is oh, CJ's scream.
Austin:I missed it. I'm so hype, bro. You
John:know, it puts things in perspective knowing this was mine and is watching Bruce. Yeah. Don't make me
Austin:sad. I I love when I start going up one in this little. It's like it's like that's as good actually to see too because, like, I was I always jump high off one, so it's like
John:Oh, yeah. Like, the This style is so sick.
Austin:Yeah. Wait. Watch this one. I remember.
John:Dude, you fucking
Speaker 3:I miss these Waterford these Waterford day or Goldenrod days.
John:Why did you just bury the ever living shit out of your plants here? Oh, interesting. Cross body.
Austin:Yeah. You have to do it for certain dunks. I've I learned throughout the years.
John:Look how low you are on your third to last step. On the heel too. Interesting. Heel. Listen to this listen to this plant, though.
John:Holy shit, buddy.
Austin:That was
John:nasty as shit. Did your hip get out?
Austin:Nope. Nope, Zay? A nasty
Speaker 3:Oh, wood mill.
John:Oh, damn.
Speaker 3:Oh, nasty punch.
John:The good old
Speaker 3:day. I'm a I'm a mentally mentally impaired person.
Austin:You had a lot of potential too. He still does. Think.
Speaker 3:You're so handsome.
Austin:Oh, thank you.
John:Oh. Sorry, Braze. I'm sorry. I just wanna Oh, Braze dunk.
Austin:No. It's crazy, though, because how many more dunks I make here, but I'm jumping around the same up too. My one foot's definitely higher than here. But, like, I don't know. Like, it's it's weird to watch.
John:A million. Oh my god. I've seen this at one point a million times ago.
Austin:The good old days. This is
John:just done five windows in a row.
Austin:Oh, this is my first espe of the session.
John:Oh, on 09:10? What do guys think? I think that goes.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Stuff.
Austin:I think all this is is reps. I dunk consistently for six months and, like, I was healthy as shit. Like, I ate healthy. Like, I didn't drink. I didn't do nothing.
Austin:I slept good. Like Yeah. I was working landscaping at the time too. Like and I was healthier.
Speaker 3:Oh. That angle was nasty for that dunk.
Austin:Yeah. Definitely. Meanwhile, Nick was high as shit.
John:Yeah. Actually.
Austin:Yeah. He used to smoke a ton of weed. I don't know if still does. Probably does. Oh my god.
Austin:I tried double elbow. You know I'm feeling good when I tried double elbow off one.
John:Two hands finished? Oh my god. Austin, you got it.
Speaker 3:It turned into wristers. Wrists. Yeah. Two handers.
John:I think
Austin:it was done bad.
John:You gotta gotta get this approach back. Whatever this fucking thing is right here. I don't know what this is. What's this what's this intro? Maybe that next one's a better angle of it.
John:Gallop one pound. Yeah. Gotta get that.
Austin:Yeah. I have to they just practice. I think a lot of it's just, like, literally, my best jumping comes from a lot of reps, and I just don't I haven't gotten this consistent monster. Alright. Because I think about how low I was jumping, I was able to East Bay like that.
Austin:That's crazy. I couldn't probably East Bay on any way.
Speaker 3:Dunking like, practicing trick dunk specifically is really important. I realized that in Wisconsin because I jumped twice a week leading up to Wisconsin. Yeah. No dunking for a month.
John:Oh. I'm gonna feel about that.
Speaker 3:Yeah. It was it was not pretty. Over?
Austin:Yeah. It was. But, yeah, I feel you, Jay. Like, that's why I'm excited with the two foot because that's,
John:like Come on. Come on.
Austin:When we were having these sessions, this is the longest I probably went, like, where it was like I could do I would jump both like this, but it would be a lot more two foot. And I was able to have, like, more sessions, like Yeah. Longer sessions, more reps. I can practice more dunks. Like, I think that's the key for me to stay healthy too is, like, definitely more two foot than one and then just leanness and whatever.
Austin:Because, like, realistically, like, the shit that I've been so close to all these years, like, the the certain all these trick dunks, like, should be hitting those now. I should be punching them with my vertical, like, especially, like No
John:way, Isaiah. I love a CJ edit.
Austin:Remember Billy didn't want this video and it got, 400,000? This
Speaker 3:yeah.
Austin:It's actually crazy I can jump that from jump from that far. It's fucking nice.
Speaker 3:Wait. How many
John:views is that? 355 k?
Austin:Yeah. We sent it to Billy and he said, no. The room's too low.
John:The fact that this looks like a news article too, like, with this. Yeah. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4:Oh, fuck.
John:That was crazy. Yeah. He's a freak athlete. It's insane.
Austin:This jump is nuts. Oh.
Speaker 3:That was insane.
John:Like fuck.
Speaker 3:That makes no sense.
John:Oh, man. That's so crazy. You
Austin:you know how the videos of him trying to winnow way behind the free throw line hit me lay on the free throw line so he didn't hit me? Yeah.
Speaker 3:Bro, like oh my. Wait. Wait.
Austin:He's the one that man.
Speaker 3:I miss CJ videos.
Austin:I miss CJ videos. I I miss Brizz
John:too. Woah. Woah.
Austin:Shit, Zay.
John:Damn. That's good. I
Austin:think I tried some five forties in this too or
John:something. Those
Speaker 3:hands look crazy.
Austin:Oh my god. I don't even wanna see it. I'm like, I have three weeks to recover because I would dunk and then take get hurt and then take three weeks off and come back and dunk. Look how lean I was, bro.
Speaker 3:What were why were you so much leaner then?
Austin:Well, you well, I didn't I didn't I was at work in landscaping, I never went out to eat. And I fasted all the time. Well, this I was skinny too. So I was skinny and lean. And then I would eat, like, only some rice at night.
Austin:That was my only carbs all day. Part of it. Well, yeah. It would be like no. I'd have eggs for breakfast and the avocado as a snack, and then two great value burgers for lunch.
John:You didn't a
Austin:can of beans or something like that.
John:You didn't have any disposable
Austin:Or snack, and then I would have ground turkey and chicken and rice, like a pack of the rice at night. And that was it. Every night. But I was also too busy to eat. That was the thing.
Austin:Like, I was working I
John:was working
Austin:no. I was looking at Dunkin' at the Dunkin' Donuts at the time.
John:I they're that much wonder
Austin:leaner. That much that lean?
John:No. I'm not I'm saying, like, it kinda like you're, like, you know, like, you're kinda build you're probably I mean, you're leaner. You're 21 years old, dude. Like, you didn't
Austin:I I wasn't this lean before that. So so that summer, John, before this, leading up to it, I was not lean at all. Like, there's a picture of me with no like, I had one or two abs. There was no upper body, anything. I did a summer of demolition.
Austin:And then I came back and I was, ripped. And I was, like, whatever. I didn't even realize until one day I was on Facebook.
John:Oh, we got a two foot three sixties now. Is that what we're looking at?
Austin:Yeah. Basically. But I mean, I was this lean in 2022. I just was way more muscular.
John:Okay. What are you doing? Yeah.
Speaker 4:Isaiah, what is this? Wait.
John:What? Like, did you wanna see what you were doing? And three. Great,
Austin:ladies. Keep it up. Good job.
John:Austin, what was your hip bothering you?
Austin:Oh, I pulled it on a I pulled my hip flexor on the free throw.
Speaker 3:John, I think this is leading up to Australia. That's why I'm not
Austin:Oh, this is right before Australia. No. It's no. Because we had the balls last session today after this. This is November.
Austin:So we have the balls
Speaker 3:last November?
John:I see a what?
Austin:No. December. Yo. That's fire. I think.
Austin:I don't know. Maybe I'm chilling. This is when three sixties were automatic. That's fucking crazy.
John:Think time you've done that. Who are you talking to in the red?
Austin:Oh, I don't know. The guy asked if I could dunk on him or something.
John:Good Good crab.
Austin:That look
Speaker 3:at me? Can you, like, look at me and then do that look?
John:Okay. That was way. Alright. Let's
Austin:Like, that dunk should be automatic. Yeah.
John:Does Bruce hit this?
Austin:I have no idea.
John:He's like he's gonna dislocate his fucking folder.
Austin:There's something that's funny in this video to me. It's like, basically, he's like, I love this shit. There's nothing like it. Like
Speaker 3:Oh, this was before he blew
Austin:up. Mhmm. Remember he was asking us to do all the videos and shit with him?
Speaker 3:You can do it.
Austin:Yeah. I think he was trying to build it. No.
John:He was he was kind of starting to blow up at this time already. Within the first week of his
Speaker 3:interview Well, this was by blow up, I mean, this was pre, like, park runs.
John:Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Austin:Yeah. No. He was, like, getting he was blowing up on Instagram, like but he just wasn't, like yeah. The park stuff.
John:What the fuck?
Austin:That's crazy. Dude, we used to dunk for solo.
John:That's my favorite. That was funny. It's funny to see, like, him throw a bad lob and just go for it. Austin, so that was it. Right?
John:So
Austin:you Yeah.
John:That's the video.
Austin:There was one that that one we I didn't know we were watching the whole video, but there was a session with Nico that that was a really good two foot session. Like a two foot low rim, but this is already a twenty two minute video. So
John:Yeah. I feel like I feel like that's a good place to, shut it down. So what are our thoughts here, boys? I mean, I think I mean, you were a little bit leaner. You I think A little bit leaner.
Austin:I was like, girl, I was like 15 pounds lighter than I am now.
John:Just more confident though more than anything else. You just went to stuff and the rim was low as hell. Mhmm. It
Austin:was definitely confidence. What were your thoughts?
Speaker 3:Yeah. I I think that because I I compare a lot a lot to now. And I think like, yeah, just confidence is a huge thing. Repping out tricks is another another huge thing. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3:I think the the confidence comes from the rim height. Everybody feels confident when it's a low rim and and a good when you're feeling good. Like if your training's good, lean, healthy, and all that stuff and then you combine the rim, the rim being low with that, like, of course, you're gonna be
John:Super confident. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Freaking confident. Like, think about how you felt that UCF session when we after we did the I think it was, high volume or something like that. Or that UCF session, you're almost ease bade. Imagine that day on nine eight, how confident you
Speaker 4:would have.
Austin:Well, I was getting ahead near rim on that shit on one minute.
Speaker 3:So I I think yeah.
Austin:Let me
Speaker 3:let think about dunk camp. Mhmm. Much better how much better the dunking is at dunk camp when you got the nine nine rims.
Austin:I miss that.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Rim height rim height is is huge.
Austin:I think confidence for me comes with reps because, like, even even like, so twenty twenty two was, like, when Goldenrod was, like, nine ten, and then I went to Jersey and the one hoop is nine eleven. The other one was 910. Jordan Brand, it was 911.5. All these different things, like me just like me doing it prior leading up to it always affects my performance because I don't know what I'm capable of. I don't know what tricks to do.
Austin:I don't know what cues to look for. That's why I'm excited about two foot. Again, I'm kinda focusing on that because I'm
John:gonna be able to do
Austin:it consistently like we said. And Yeah. Be like, you know, practice as opposed to, like, oh, I'm fatigued from training. Now I can't do a two hander off on foot.
John:Like, I
Austin:can't let alone practice in East Bay. Like, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3:Yeah. No. I do think or is
Austin:that AI?
John:I think I'm
Speaker 3:I'm team Austin two foot. Not not just because I have the bias of a two footer, but I do think as you get older, it becomes so much harder to maintain two foot and stuff like that. And it and it's different from like like take like John's example. John didn't like he went from like not doing two foot that much to, like, fully focusing on it versus Austin has a huge background of two foot. Like, he lower him off two feet a lot, and he has a technique, that like, he's not it's not like you have to learn the jump technique.
Speaker 3:You don't have to learn the trick done because it's a matter of training and doing it more.
Austin:I'm never focused on any of the tricks or anything. Yeah. Like
Speaker 3:So I'm I'm team two foot. What what do you think, John?
John:Breaking news. I Isaiah wants Austin to focus on two foot.
Austin:Is it AI? It's so funny.
John:Hi, dude. It's crazy.
Speaker 3:Wait. Did you change it?
Austin:No. I think it's doing it on its own. It says Austin is confident on lower rims. Like, that's funny as fuck.
Speaker 3:Wait. That's an AI thing?
John:Yeah. Dude, that's me. I'm doing it.
Austin:Oh, you're fucking Well, bro, I thought you were I thought it was I was like, that is so messed up. It's AI. I was like, Austin is coming. No.
John:Think I'm just changing both of them.
Speaker 3:John, you shoulda you shoulda kept that a secret. It's just every podcast.
John:It's, like, changing. I'm like, dude, it's crazy how the computer just keeps deciding what what's
Speaker 4:to say.
Austin:Austin's insecurity doesn't allow him to improve at other faster rate even though he has elite athleticism. That's funny.
John:You should have seen what I mean, you saw it set earlier. Right?
Austin:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
John:And that was definitely not AI. But, no, I think for you, you need to pivot to something else that's fun. At the end of the day, you just need to have fun, dude. Like Yeah. It's just what it's about.
John:You just need to have fun. And for me, I wasn't having fun doing two foot anymore because I was just sick of missing dunks on 10 feet. I think if I was regularly dunking on 10 feet a lot off two, I probably would have stayed with it. But I was having fun because it hurt my back a lot, which I didn't like. And I just wasn't making enough dumps on 10 feet for me to have fun.
Austin:Yeah.
John:And I was like, I just wasn't enjoying it. I was like, damn, I kind of miss one foot a lot. I just miss jumping high. I don't necessarily miss like, you know, some of the the training stuff with it or whatever else. Like, I I think I like training for two foot more but I have more limitations with two foot where one foot, I have less mobility restrictions and stuff like that.
John:So, for me, it's like, I enjoy just jumping hard off one and kind of experimenting with stuff and learning and there's not a lot of one foot jumpers at my age but for you, I think that your one foot is something where, I mean, I I've demonstrated this. It'll come right back if you do it and you've never really committed to doing two foot whereas like, I committed to doing it for five months and I've have no doing two foot. Like, I really didn't get a two foot ever. You've demonstrated that you can dunk extremely well off two feet and I think you would like it. I think you would have fun with it.
John:I think you need to figure out how to make it fun and keep it in perspective though. Like, I probably wouldn't go do a bunch of 10 foot sessions off two off the rip. I probably I
Austin:think I'm gonna go Waterford nine eight.
John:I was like, nine eight and just have fun or lower. Like, go to site yards.
Austin:Yo. No. Even that would work. I
John:And you'd have more fun doing that.
Austin:I just need to, like yeah. Yeah. Definitely. I agree. I I you know how you feel with two foot off one foot?
Austin:Like, where it's like, don't, like you know, or how you feel off two foot on 10 foot is how I've been feeling off one foot. And I also enjoy training hard. And I feel like with one foot, it's like I'm constantly, like, battling myself. It's like, don't wanna be so fatigued. It's like, don't wanna do this, like, so I can practice these dunks.
Austin:But I feel like with two foot, at least, like, there is more consistency, with the high training volume. Damn. Bill Evans is today, man.
John:That's crazy to say. This podcast isn't even this isn't even about him.
Austin:I know. I love him. Do you speaking of which, do you do you think I should do well, obviously, I can't right now because I'm rehabbing. But I was saying, like, do you think, like, I should be focusing on the weight room or just taking time to do, a load management two foot setup?
John:I would just do I would just do it. Have fun, man. Just have fun and stay healthy for a little bit off too, and then you can get into training. Just build a routine of jumping off too and enjoying it. Oh, no.
John:Increase your buy in for training for it. I mean, if you think training your buy in's gonna go up doing a cycle, then do a cycle. But me, personally, I probably wouldn't do that.
Austin:So you're thinking just get my knees healthy, progress into jumps, then just dunk twice
John:a week? Dude, you could you like, just dunk on, like, eight foot for thirty minutes and, like, off two, and you're gonna have more fun doing that than, like you know? Just
Speaker 3:figure out how
John:you can regularly have sessions once a week and stay healthy and do, like, thirty minute sessions off too and have fun.
Austin:I mean, it'll upset you, actually, but I'm gonna do standing jumps today. I'm learning to be smart. I don't wanna
John:be I'm not jumping today.
Austin:I You you listen?
John:I should so let me say this. I'll say I've had a very I've had a very stressful day. What would make me feel good is going to UCF and dunking. It might also make me make me feel really bad if my knee hurts. I did catch a heavy clean, and my knee is sore.
John:I feel way better than I did after the heavy clean catch miss yesterday, but I don't think that I should jump today. I probably should do a lift and then maybe jump tomorrow, but I don't know if you're gonna be around.
Austin:Me?
John:Yeah.
Austin:I'll be around tomorrow. It's the people in my bathroom are just like, I think they're good.
John:On your bathroom?
Austin:The people fixing my bathroom? Cool. Breaking news. Breaking news, guys. Austin's getting his bathroom redone because of mold.
John:Breaking breaking news.
Austin:Place to cut it. My bathroom is
John:getting redone. Hold on. What
Austin:do you say?
John:Isaiah, look at the ticker. This just in. There are many. Anyway, yeah, we'll end it there. Thanks for watching, guys.
John:I hope you enjoyed this. I hope it was intuitive. Austin, you know, is gonna he's gonna try two foot. I think that's that's what we discovered. Other than that, go teachmestrength.com and sign up for coaching.
John:If you want a static stretch, do static stretching. If you don't want to do static stretching, don't do static stretching. There's no longitudinal research that demonstrates that it does anything for you as a speed powered athlete, But if you have mobility restrictions, probably should. And acutely, it's dose dependent, and the more you stretch, the more you're gonna see a decrease before doing speed power events. Thanks for listening, guys.
John:We'll see you tomorrow. Bye bye. Bye bye.
Austin:Bye bye.
