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Is there such a thing as “Hang Time”? To get straight to the point – it is a matter of science – there is no such thing as “hang time”. Many people may not believe this, pointing to their favorite player and at the same time exclaim how he can hang in the air longer than anyone else. But, the fact of the matter is, any basketball player (including “Air Jordan” himself) just makes it seem as if they are floating in the air.

Here’s the details of what really happens when a basketball player jumps (but any other sport where jumping is involved applies as well).

As he comes down the court, a player jumps and Newton’s third law of physics comes into play. This law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. What this means in layman’s terms is that the player exerts a force against the floor and the floor exerts a force back. This action/reaction causes the player to leave the floor. The greater the force the player uses when he pushes against the floor, the greater the force the floor exerts back – resulting in the player jumping higher into the air.

If a player is running during the jumping process, his/her center of mass follows a parabolic path, which basically looks like a rounded off mountain top. A persons “center of mass” is located around the middle of their body. This means that, if the person were to stay in exactly the same position during the jump, his/her midsection (and therefore, entire body) would follow this path. But as a player jumps while running, the center of mass is lifted — and manipulated.

By bringing his knees up, he raises his center of mass relative to his head. He does that on his way up. On the way down, however, he lowers his legs back down and that, in turn brings the center of mass back down. This effectively raises his head in comparison to the center of mass. The head no longer follows the parabola. The head stays at one height.

So the result is during part of the flight, the head stays at the same height, but ,during the entire flight the center of mass goes up and down.

In essence, the player’s head is the key to why we believe there is such a thing as hang time.

When we look at another person, we don’t usually concentrate on the person’s “center of mass”. We usually concentrate on the head (or at least the upper part of the whole body) . What happens then is somewhat of an “illusion”, but it really is what happens; the head is staying constant for an longer than normal time because the person changes his center of mass.

Well, if there is no such thing as “hang time”, how is it that one person can stay in the air longer than another person? The REAL answer is because that person JUMPS HIGHER.

If you can’t increase your hang time then, you have to learn to jump higher! How can you do this? Check out these Vertical Jump Program Reviews for more information.

About the Author:

Tom Beagle is writer for EInfoHound. He does extensive research in many areas to “sniff out” and report the information you are looking for on the internet.

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