Do I have Hops? How can I improve?
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u have hops my friend.  u nee to get 6 inches above the rim to dunk though.  try doing lunges wit hdumbells or frog jumps.  these strengthen legs without adding extra bulk.  just hit the gym and stay in shape.
149021
For drops, Keep your weight back and your legs soft.  For jumps you need a little more timing, it can't really be taught.  You need to go out and hit a few.
656659
If you have an 8 foot vertical jump (highly unlikely) then you needn't worry about improvement. It thats an error then you could try walking around on the balls of your feet all day and also calf lifts.
815108
Strengthen your glutes and do jumping exercises.  Do 3 sets of 10 jumps where you try to reach something.  The next day try to target a few inches higher, so and so on.  Glutes, Glutes and more Glutes.  hip extensions, squats, leg press, lunges, the glute machine if your local gym has one.  There are tons.  Try to target the different glutes muscles as well.  Gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and minimus.  Ask a personal trainer.
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In addition to what James said, I'd incorporate jump training.  Find (or build) something sturdy about 30" high.  Squat down, then jump on it.  Do 3 sets of 10-12 reps.  When it gets easy, increase the height.  \n\nThere is a corrolation between vertical leap and quickness.  High concentration of fast twith muscles and lower weight will result in quicker running and quicker moves, both forward/backward and laterally.
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Stand under a basket jump straight up, about 25 times at a time... do as many reps as you can...see how high you can get on the net... then do some other stuff, like practicing your shooting or dribbling... then do it again, jump as high as you can with both hands up, do it 25 times... as you do this, your legs will get stronger, and your stamina will improve as well...(doing it under a basket will allow you to guage your progress as you get closer and closer to your goal).\n\nJump rope a lot too... this helps build your legs, and your stamina as well...\n\nDon't mess with ankle weights UNLESS A DOCTOR TELLS YOU IT'S OK...your joints aren't used to that, so even if you use them, you'll have to build up gradually.  Don't listen to anyone who tells you how much ankle weights did for them, or for their cousin, or for their next door neighbor... every body is different, you should check with a doctor or trainer to see how ankle weights might be used as some point.\n\nWith three years left to achieve your goal, you should be able to do it... don't let anyone tell you that you can't... well, I guess you can't stop them from telling you that, but just don't listen to them... it's easy to sit on the sidelines and criticize, and tell everyone that what they're trying to do is impossible, but people who do that end up never amounting to anything...\n\nGood luck to you!\n\nbtw, talk to you coach about this goal of yours as well... he/she should be glad to help... tell them about the ideas from the answers on this page (don't need to tell where you got the ideas) and see what he/she says...
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Make sure to jumrope for 2 min. in the jumpsoles or jog 1/4 mile before doing starting each day.(this helps the blood flow in your body to reduce the chance of you getting a injury. Also stretch your legs out too.\n\nAlthough you start out doing two exercises on week 1 then build up on that, I'll just tell you what workouts there are.\n\n-squat lunges: do 2 sets of 10 squat lunges with each leg. Rest about 1 min. in between sets. A squat lunge is just basically a lunge try not to let your knee touch the ground but just make it within 4 in. of the ground.\n\n-step ups: find a box about 12 inches in height and do 2 sets of 10 step ups with each leg with 1 min. rest between sets. Try to "explode" upward on each step. \n\n-rim jumps: stand under a rim, jump and touch the rim 10x with both of your hands. Although I myself cant touch the rim, I just use something that I can reach, but is still very challenging. Do 2 sets of 10 jumps with 2 min. rest between sets. \n\n-skipping: skip 25 yards. Try to go for height in this excersise. make sure your knees go high try to make them go horizontal to your waist on each leap off of the ground.\n\n-bounding: hop 25 yards. bounding is basically hopping off both your feet forward try to go for both height and length in each jump go as hard as you can, try to make your self tired.\n\n-cone hops: 2 sets of ten jumps with 2 min. of rest in between. find some cones and line them up, the cones should be at least 8 in. high. stand on one side of the cones and leap sideways, back and forth. go  for height in this excercise.\n\nAlthough these are just some workouts there are some others as well I just cant quite remember. just try to do them.\n\ndo these workouts twice a week  with 2 days rest in between each day you workout.
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The best thing I would say to do to fix your problem would be to keep your hands tight.  By letting your hands be lax and further apart, you are more likely to have a miss-set.  Try to fix the bad habit now.\n   You may also want to make sure you are squaring up.  Open up to your passers and use proper footwork to get your hips around the ball.  To get used to swinging your hips around, do a lot of reps.  I use orange cones placed at 12:00, 10:00, 9:00, and even 7:00.  The cones should be about 5 to 10 feet off of the net.  Use a push, drive, slant technique.  With enough reps, it will become easier to you.\n   Hope this helps.
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Get some jump soles man, that increased my vertical drastically, not only that it made my first step off the dribble a lot quicker too.   Give that a try, they come with a great workout sheet thatll get you jumping higher in no time.  Good luck man
118907
Practice, practice, practice.\nJumping on a trampoline has improve vertical leaping.
94027
do what i do, do finger push-ups for a strong grip on the ball. and to learn to prevent turnovers, go to a park or school find a three sided handball court and work on passing to your front, left, and right. it worked for me, my turnover per game improved this season, from 4.6 to 1.4
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Depending on how old you are depends any future growth.  However, you can increase how high you jump by simple practice drills.\n1.  In a larger size trampoline establish daily routines to stretch your legs, calf's, thighs and the overall action of jumping straight up.  Say an hour everyday, but force your legs to jump higher every time on the trampoline during this hour.\n2.  On the side of a wall, shed or garage with a pencil, marker or something that can write on it, establish a goal on how high you are going to jump and give yourself a time limit to accomplish the jumping goal.  With the pencil/marker on hand (try to touch the target as you jump) keep jumping to meet or exceed the goal, (you will notice the marks of your jumps) always place the goal higher than you've already accomplished but reasonably within striking jumping distance.\n3.  Run and exercise your legs on a tread mill to be stronger, this will help in the thrust motion towards a basket and help in impulsing your body weight towards the basket.  The stronger your legs the stronger the drive towards the basket with jumping capability in place any 6' footer can dunk\n4.  Remember Spudd Webb and have a role model on your quest.  Webb was 5' 6"?. \n5.  If you are still in school besides the basketball team join the track team,  high jump, hurdles and track would help any inspiring dunk basketball player.\n\nGood Luck and God Bless!!!!
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Personally, I had the same problem. What worked for me was first getting real comfortbale dribbling, beause if you're going for a left handed lay-up you have to dribble, in most cases, with your left hand. Then practice just that. Doing running lay-ups like you would during a game. Start out with warm-up lay-ups until you get comfortable then go faster. It took me about a month to get consistant with it, so i'd say about a month. you'll do fine. Goodluck!
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Make sure to push your front foot off the board all the way; simialar to a bronco, but between the nose and the side of the board. this will also get your kflips higher
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I'm in the same position right now but i'm about ready, I've been doing interval sprints...thats were you sprint as far as you can then slow down till you catch your breath and your heart rate slows a little then repeat. Tons of jump shots, tons of lay-ups, and do plenty of ball handling drills. Also jumping lots of rope helps in getting your hops back. I've been doing this for about three months now while watching what I eat and I've dropped 22 lbs . I do alot of working out at the gym too but most of the running stuff you can just do at home.
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try doing squat excersises like standing up on the floor, bending your knees just far enough to reach the ground with your hands next to your feet and then go down another 3 inches and hold it for a minute... do this many times and for longer and longer periods. You can also try doing that same thing but instead of holding it jump up as far as you can and then as soon as you hit the ground jump again and agin for about 25 in a row. To better improve jumping power and your kick, jog bringing your knees as far up to your chest as you can , or do that jogging in place. One final excersise is more extreme and will produce amazing results, put your back against a wall and go down with your knees at 90 degrees. pretend your sitting in a chair. try to go as long as you can and push yourself past the pain limit...dont hurt yourself now :)    . Those exercises will greatly improve your Quadriceps (front of your thigh/leg area muscle) which are a must for kicking and jumping.
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You can't learn from Yahoo Answers how to do kicks correctly. You got to go out and find a good school and have a instructor teach you.  Get a clue killer.