The Grand Lay Ups

I'm very sure most of you are familiar with lay ups,right?There are many manipulations that you can create with lay ups.You can do 360 degree lay up,the under leg lay up,the Alley-oop lay up and more.These lay ups can be performed with different kind of styles depending on your own creativity.However,there's one important key you have to always keep in mind so you can get them done successfully and perfectly.
The important key is-the jumping height.

In whatever styles of lay ups you want to do,you've got to jump high to perform them.This gives you a wide interval of time for you to perform the required move in order for the lay up of your own style to be accomplished.I know this might be something common among you already but it probably is not for the ones who have problems with jumping heights.As an example,me,since I'm a short guy so I can't really jump high enough to perform the lay up.

Well.there's a way to overcome this.I've done it before and I'm going to pass it on to you guys.Firstly,the 'touch-the-board' exercise.I've been doing this since I played for my high school for the past few years back then.All you have to do is stand right under the backboard and jump as high as you can.Make sure to set up a specific height that you want to reach.You can do it by trying to touch the lower part of the backboard first.Then once you've reached that part,you can move on to the next level of height,which probably be the lower part of the rim,where the screw of the rim is attached to the backboard and so forth.

The second exercise is quite the same as the first one.The different thing is-you have to run towards the backboard,jump and touch the aimed area.Run,jump and touch.As simple as ABC.

The third exercise is also the same as the first one.Just this time,you've got to hold the ball along.Hold the ball with one hand and the other to reach the aimed area.The same idea goes to the fourth exercise.Hold the ball with one hand,run,jump and touch the aimed area with the other hand.

As you progress along with these exercises,you'll realise how much far you've become.These exercises target specific muscles of your legs to strengthen and helps you to shift your weight upwards as much as you could to enhance you vertical jump's distance.Try them!They have worked wonders for me :).

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