I just read this thread again. This is low-key one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read on these forums. And that’s saying a lot.
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Maybe I’m being a dumbass here, but I can’t figure out why this thread is considered so dumb. 
Personally, I can’t do as many deadstop chinups/pullups as regular because I don’t get the stretch reflex at the eccentric–>concentric. It’s akin to being weaker on pin press or Anderson squat for me. I feel like OP is probably the exception and has a reasonable question. Sounds to me like poor eccentric control on chinups. What am I missing here?
…because your feet touching the floor isn’t a dead hang pullup. Even if they don’t touch hard, it’s like saying “I can Bench more reps if a spotter is touching the bar.” Of course you can. A pullup isn’t a dead hang pullup if your feet are touching the ground.
So instead of writing “I can do 6 deadhang pullups if my feet touch but if they don’t I can’t get two”, you would just say “I can only do one deadhang pullup.”
In general, how can someone not understand why having their feet touch the ground on a pullup would make the movement easier?
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Because he’s almost certainly pushing off the ground, and perhaps not realizing it, kind of how you can push off with your ‘other’ foot when you’re stepping onto a box, so you’re not really performing a one leg step up when you’re trying to isolate one leg. In other words, he’s just jumping. Occam’s razor here, that’s the easiest way to explain tripling his performance.