Do you want to learn how to dunk a basketball like Allen Iverson? Allen Iverson stands at 5’10 without his shoes yet he can dunk a basketball with ease and flare. how does he do that?

The secret behind Allen Iverson’s amazing vertical leap is actually no secret at all. what you need to do to achieve a vertical jump like him is to dedicate yourself to the correct workouts to train your muscles.

However, most people only focus on working out their leg muscles and that is the general error that everyone makes. Achieving a 40+ inch jump takes much more than just working out your leg muscles.

You need to know how to build a strong overall body strength mixed with the correct nutritional diet and stretches. By doing all three of these things, you will be able to achieve your maximum vertical potential.

Remember, you are not born with a vertical limit. You can always train yourself to exceed your limit with the correct workout program.

Here are some exercises to help you learn how to dunk a basketball like Allen Iverson:

1. Squats – one of the best exercises to increase your lower body power for explosiveness to the rim.

2. Sprints – Sprinting is a great way to build speed and power. to further challenge yourself, try sprinting uphill for a certain amount of time or distance.

3. Ankle Jumps – This workout is great if you want to increase your vertical jump. Jump in rhythm only using your ankles and while in the air, do not ever let your heels touch the ground. try to spend as little time on the ground as possible.

However, what if you want to get a complete workout to help guarantee a big increase in your vertical limit?

If you want to increase your leap big time, it is highly recommended for you to use Jump Manual. The Jump Manual is a complete workout program designed to help you add 10 inches to your vertical leap in 12 weeks time.

Sounds too good to be true right?

NBA Secrets – How to Dunk a Basketball Like Allen Iverson

Tania Dall / Eyewitness News

NEW ORLEANS — Three cab drivers have been targeted by armed robbers in the last three days.

In some of those cases, drivers were even carjacked at gunpoint.

"I said, ‘Get in,’ but I felt something wrong, but it was too late," said Omar Qasim, a taxicab driver with American Cab.

Early Sunday morning around 1:10 a.m., Qasim says two women and a young man flagged him down on North Rampart Street in the French Quarter.

"The gentleman asks me to take him to Columbus [in the 7th Ward]. so I assume they are a family together and so I say, ‘Welcome, and get in.’ He sits besides me and the ladies didn’t make any move," said Qasim, who began driving the young man away in his cab.

Within minutes, Qasim said his passenger asked him to pull over so he could urinate. instead, the young man pulled out a gun demanding cash from Qasim.

"He said: ‘You broke!’ I said: ‘Yes, I’m broke. I don’t have money.’ He said: ‘Well, just drive off and I’m not going to shoot. I’m sorry, I should not do that,’" said Qasim of his conversation with the gunman.

A close call. however, two hours later NOPD confirms a different taxicab picked up a passenger in the Quarter at Dauphine and Conti. The driver was later robbed and then carjacked near Columbus Street and North Johnson Street in the 7th Ward.

Police say the taxicab van was in the 1500 block of N. Derbigny Street just three blocks from where a second taxicab was carjacked on Tuesday morning. The cab driver told investigators he picked up a passenger in the 900 block of Rampart Street, taking him to the intersection of Columbus Street and North Derbigny in the 7th Ward, where the driver was also robbed and carjacked.

"Definitely think they’re related. The descriptions pretty similar on the perpetrator and the MO on the incident is pretty much exactly the same," said NOPD Detective Sgt. Troy Williams.

These latest carjackings have cab drivers across New Orleans worried about their safety.

"This is our lives, you know. In one second your life is gone. You have to be careful or really get yourself another job," said taxicab driver Arthur Hashim.

Back behind the wheel after Sunday’s scare, Qasim said he’s just happy to see another day.

"I was under his mercy to kill me or not. so I was lucky that he did not shoot," said Qasim.

NOPD said its looking for a black man, 5’7" to 6’0", with a heavy build and clean shaven with short hair.

In both cases, the man was wearing blue jeans and either a white t-shirt or gray jacket.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 822-1111.

Drivers on alert after cabs carjacked

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From: Tommy Craggs To: Barry Petchesky, Tom Scocca

My favorite moment of the Giants-49ers game was the shot of Eli Manning in the final minute of the fourth quarter, score tied at 17. Manning, after spinning away from the initial rush, had somehow squeezed off a pass to Ahmad Bradshaw right around the time the 49ers’ Aldon Smith was knocking the quarterback into Sausalito. it was a nice, ballsy little play, the sort of move that made you realize that Eli has a lot more Archie to him than his brother ever did. Manning was left looking like something that had gotten snagged in the blades of your lawnmower. Helmet several degrees out of plumb, pads spilling out of his jersey, chin guard heading north toward his eyeballs, grass all over him. He was the Scarecrow after the flying monkeys had finished with him. He looked bad, and I’ll be damned if, in that Maynard G. Krebs way of his, he didn’t look a little badass, too.

Now, this wasn’t exactly Y.a. Tittle bleeding from the dome, but it was fun watching Manning transmogrify himself into a tough guy. who knows what to make of Eli Manning anymore? in his time, he has been regarded as a worthy dynastic successor, then a slackjawed legacy punk, then a draft bust, then a barely acceptable mediocrity, then a “game manager” who was good enough not to lose the Giants a Super Bowl, then a braggart, then a rock-ribbed leader of men. He’s improved his touch since his first few years in the league, but he has remained more or less the same quarterback—good, never as bad as his worst critics claimed, never as great as his biggest boosters wanted to believe.

We’ve chewed over this a lot in this here space, but it’s worth addressing again, because it’s dawned on me that the single greatest problem with mainstream football analysis right now is its inability to deal with the merely good. we know what great looks like; we know what shit looks like, too. But when confronted with a player or a team that’s only satisfactory, a B at best, we lose all our bearings and get drunk on cheap metaphysics (leadership, clutchness, etc.). the Jets were a good team; they went 8-8 because sometimes good teams go 8-8, not because they were Gomorrah-on-the-Hudson.

The Giants are likewise good, and they have a good quarterback. But good is not enough when there’s bullshit to peddle. Here’s our old pal Rick Reilly wondering if Eli could “end up as the greatest Manning of all.” He writes:

• Eli’s playoff record is better than his brother’s. Eli is 6-3 to Peyton’s 9-10.

• the scalps on Eli’s belt are better. He got one off Tom Brady and the 18-0 New England Patriots of 2007 in Super Bowl 42. a week ago, he snagged one almost as good: Aaron Rodgers and the 15-1 Green Bay Packers of 2011. Peyton’s signature win? He beat Rex Freaking Grossman.

• Eli’s four playoff road wins are tied for most in NFL history. Peyton’s had only two.

• Peyton has never thrown for as many yards as Eli did this season (4,933), even with more than half his games in domes.

• Eli’s been more Clutch Cargo this season than Peyton ever has. His 15 fourth-quarter TD passes broke the NFL record held by Johnny Unitas (1959) and — oh, wait! — Peyton Manning (2002).

In a lot of ways, this is just the Tim Tebow debate in Groucho glasses. Reilly is ascribing all the team’s success to a single player, then committing casual atrocities with numbers to prop up an argument he doesn’t really believe in the first place. That road wins stat—which is getting humped all up and down the coverage of the playoffs—has to be the dumbest of all. You don’t need the WOPR machine to see that it cancels itself out. Eli won his fifth playoff road game on Sunday. what that means, if we adopt the Reilly fallacy that a quarterback bears sole responsibility for his team’s fortunes, is that Eli is good enough to compensate for the fact that he wasn’t good enough to secure homefield advantage for the Giants. Meanwhile, Peyton and his Colts played in three road playoff games total between in 2004 and 2010. You can’t win playoff games on the road when you’re good enough to spend the postseason at home.

What’s crazy about the overinflation of Manning’s credentials is that it runs against the nature of the league. the modern NFL is built on good. It’s a league where the weak can be strong—where a good team can go 9-7 and make the playoffs and perhaps win a Super Bowl, even against a great team. the philosophy of the greatest coach in the NFL right now, Bill Belichick, is largely a philosophy of good—i.e., a roster of useful, fungible players is better than a roster of a few stars and a lot of spare parts. Good makes the league go ’round. Embrace it.

Eli Manning And The NFL’s Trouble With Goodness