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Jumps test at 10':

5 SVJs, best ~35'' (about 5'' up hand)  :

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-gAa5gu3I" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-gAa5gu3I</a>



5-6 DSVJs, best prob 35-35.5'':

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQ-xbKTC3Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQ-xbKTC3Q</a>

3 DLRVJs - all shit but one prob nearly 36'' (I had my hand clenched in this vid so it looks lower):

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-boRXDIuRo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-boRXDIuRo</a>

1 SLRVJ, ~37'':

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzv2V-A6jw4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzv2V-A6jw4</a>

Here's a shot of my highest point:



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I felt my DL technique had improved during last few jumps practice but it just sucked today  Kept mincing my steps and losing all my momentum. They were just failing so I moved onto single-legs. I did a few warmups, then did a relaxed and it felt pretty good, at least as high as last few tests, but I  tweaked my knee a bit on the landing. It was sort of a dull pain in the patella tendon. It wasn't really painful or anything but it was sore enough to make me think about stopping. Could have maybe had 1-2 more and try for 38'' but I'd rather err on the side of caution with my knees. I've never really had trouble with them except when I jump on concrete for extended periods so I think it was pretty minor. I iced it for 10 mins afterwards and it felt fine. So overall disappointing but still pretty happy with PRing SVJ.

Yeah, he's moving pretty fast prior to the jump, so his knees aren't gonna be that low.

Quote from: acole14 on July 15, 2012, 12:20:58 am

Jumps 2:

8 SVJs - ranged from 31''- 33''

8 DSVJs - highest around 34'' (these felt really good today)

5 DLRVJs - highest prob 36''

5 SLRVJs - same as DL

I'm learning a lot about how I jump best through these back-to-back jumping sessions. I find that I jump better when I don't think about the jump much at all and just walk up, pause, then go for it. The longer I spend readying the jump or thinking about technique, the less likely it is I'll do it well. Today my SVJs started out low because I was taking too long before the jump. When I reduced the 'pre-jump' time and just did it without hesitating at all, it was way higher. Same thing for the other types of jumps. Gotta focus on being more relaxed and reflexive.

Great post. I just did a jumping session too and noticed that if I seemingly didn't put a lot of thought into activating every muscle fibre, I'd get 1-2 inches higher as well. I think I slowed my amortisation phase a little and it felt as though I wasn't even going to jump and then I was 2h dunking with all kinds of bent elbows. Quite surreal.

This last page has taught me a fair bit about jumping and the importance of shit like timing your arm swing with your SVJ. I'm always looking to whore that extra centimeter, so thanks for that.

Hey no worries, glad it's useful to you. I mean, it's all stuff that seems REALLY obvious, but I think you only learn these things about yourself through continuous practice and repetition. After 1.5 years of training for vert I'm only just noticing these small but important aspects (probably because I never did enough pure jumps sessions in the past).

Jumps:

6 SVJs

6 DSVJs (mixed up RL and LR plants, I don't think I jump significantly higher either way)

6 SLRVJs

4 DLRVJs

Gym::

Power clean: 5x40kgs (warmup), 5x70kgs, 3x80kgs, 2x85kgs  (finally >1xBW)

Jump squats: 1x6@16kgs, 3x6@32kgs

Depth jumps: 2x6@30''

RDLs: 1x6@60kgs (warmup), 1x6@100kgs, 1x5@125kgs (these felt much easier than last few weeks and fairly explosive)

Core, foam roll, stretch after

Hey Lance, 2 quick questions:

1)  Have you had experience with shin splints before?  They always start hurting during my SL bounds.  During sprints they don't hurt though.  They also hurt during basketball sometimes.  Is this something where I can just keep fighting through it and my body will eventually adapt?

Sorry, I had to lol a bit at that  . You should never have to push through the pain. I had problems with shin splints when I started doing bounds again this year, but yeah as Lance says, ice + stretch will work wonders. I'm gonna start doing that heel walk thing myself, sounds good.

Also, how's your technique when you do the bounds? Do you have a vid? I had really shitty technique when I started. I worked on it and although it's nowhere near perfect, it's improved a little I think, and I haven't had any shin splint pain since the change.

Jumps 2 (at vertec):

6 SVJs (highest 33'')

8 DSVJs (highest 34'')

6 DLRVJs (highest 35'')

6 SLRVJs (highest 35.5'')

I did these on my deck (no indoor courts open near my house) so the running jumps were more like 3-4 step jumps, so not quite as high as I would have liked.

Jumps:

6 SVJs

6 DSVJs

5 DLRVJs (also tried a few rotational plants, I didn't do them very well of course but I can see how if I practised the form they could get better)

6-7 SLRVJs

I realised I had lost my form on SVJs. I used to utilise my armswing a lot better. Today my first few were prob around 31'', then I really focused on timing the jump with the momentum of my arms and unsurprisingly I got a good 1.5-2'' higher. I guess I hadn't really been focusing on SVJ for awhile now.

Other jumps were pretty good as well, I'm going max effort on these now every week because I think it's probably pointless to do 2x jump sessions a week if they're not max effort.