Luke Bonner—a sports writer and retired basketball player who played professionally in Lithuania, Hungary, and the NBA D-League— knows exactly what advice he would have given Billy Hoyle to get the strength needed for that extra bit of hang-time: Jumpsoles.
Jumpsoles are clunky sandal-looking platforms you slip onto your shoes which make it impossible for your heel to touch the ground, thus strengthening your calves. They were briefly all the rage. Mike Ryan, a physical therapist who often works with rehabbing athletes, thinks explosiveness is the key for dunking, and contends the best drills to increase it are plyometric. You can also work on Olympic lifts such as snatch and clean and jerk.
Proprioception, a dollar word for our unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation. The better the proprioception, the quicker your body will be able to quickly change speed and explode. But not so fast. Ryan says genetics are a huge factor too, and that training can only do so much. His prognosis is grim for all of you average-sized adults with dreams of posterizing an enemy.
We are all born with a certain amount of type 1 and type 2 muscle fibers. You can try to increase those muscle fibers with the exercises that I already stated however, that only can take you so far and will most likely only help you gain an inch or two with your vertical. Corbeil concurs. But without assistance?
No way. I'd give it a solid year of dedicated drills for an adult. It's entirely possible that the hoop Billy Hoyle dunked on was more like 9'10" instead of 10'. And you'd be surprised how much of a difference those couple inches can make.
In other words, his mind got him those few extra inches. You need to be under pressure, but not too much. Billy was just too aroused to optimize his performance. They can only do one thing. When it comes to street-level playground basketball, he can run with the best of them. They win, of course. And Billy loses the girl, of course.
Keanu Reeves auditioned for the Billy part but over the course of three days on court, it became clear that he was no baller. As it was, Harrelson could play well enough to be coachable. Snipes was no Dr J but he was an athletic specimen and he had enough charisma and patter to make it impossible to take your eyes off him. Throughout the basketball sequences, he carried himself like the best payer anyone had ever seen.
Even when he missed shots, he kept on jabbering and preening himself as if they had all gone in. For anyone who knew their basketball at the time, those scenes were made extra funny for the fact that some of the dudes that Snipes and Harrelson were taking to town were genuine top-rank ball players. We had a four-week basketball camp with real coaches. We had a big playbook that I had worked out with my assistants, there were Xs and Os everywhere. And they can do it over and over again.
We ran them for days. And it was all to make them look as if they were spontaneous. I could then cut that into the staged stuff.
Shelton had written a few into the script but when the actors started improvising their own, he gave them a homework assignment, telling them to come in the next day with as many of the best ones they could gather up.
They came back with hundreds. Shelton shot them all, even though maybe only a couple of dozen make it into the movie. Some were dropped because they were too over the top for the rating he was looking for.
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Martin Scorsese - Batman Begins. That's the move! Oh that's the move! Sidney Deane : [while on the Venice Beach basketball courts] Fuck you, your mother's astronaut. Billy Hoyle : My mother was too drunk to be astronaut. Sidney Deane : Hey hey man, what's the score? I'm talking to you! I'm talking to the fucking air. Billy Hoyle : [sitting with the crowd watching Sidney and his friends play basketball on the Venice Beach basketball courts] My name ain't chump, it's Billy Hoyle.
Sidney Deane : Billy Hoyle. Billy Hoyle. Okay Billy Billy Hoyle : Yeah. Sidney Deane : Good. What's the score Billy Hoyle : I don't know. Sidney Deane : Then you're a chump. Billy Hoyle : [before Sydney snatches Bill's basketball away from him] I may be a chump, I just said that wasn't my name. Billy Hoyle : [while in Sidney's car] Once again quoting myself,"a white man wants to win first look good second, a black man wants to look good first win second" that is the most ridiculous piece of philosophical BULLSHIT I have ever heard!
Sidney Deane : Yo, Billy, tomorrow we goin' to 3rd Street. We're goin' to hustle out there. That's Watts, tough games out there. Big bucks.
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