A good recent one is Joel Smith’s Vertical Foundations.Įventually, it became fun to see some crazy ideas. The program would work great for Jordan but no one else. Michael Jordan’s coach put a book out that was just plain bad. There were many in between and many more that were just plain bad. It had a good mix of exercises and a sound progression. Kelly Baggett had the first one that I thought was good. If you want to sell, you have to have a vertical jump program. The internet world of athletic training is built on these dreams. Dreams of entering the NBA dunk contest are always in the back of player’s mind, and the 5’7 Spud Webb only encouraged everyone’s dreams. Once an athlete has broken “the dunk barrier”, they get creative, one-hand, two-hand, tomahawk, one step, two legs, reverse. Sometimes the response is I can get rim or can dunk a tennis ball. Every little kid always asks the older high school athlete if they can “slam”. It seems that is part of the right to athletic manhood. Every basketball junkie has dreams of dunking over their opponent on the court.
