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You're crazy... there's no need to replicate and overload jumping mechanics in the gym. The gym is for building muscle. You can overload the jumping by doing depth jumps (if anything, do side depth jumps like I'm doing, where you drop off to the side and there's a 1-2 (LR or RL) plant sequence. Or you could use a powerjumper. Or you could use a weight vest. Or you could use more speed in an actual jump etc.

You're dangerously playing with recruitment as well (maybe training for a bad recruitment pattern) if you try to replicate the jumping moevment (or any dynamic movement) in the gym too much.

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What did you do in terms of core strengthening?

Yeah but... remember, the core, if you associate that with the abs, is actually doing hip flexion. So it can't be the core. At best it's the glutes that can't stop the hip flexion from happening eccentrically (can't oppose by firing to hip extend and stop the hip flexion from occuring).

To me... a "running 2-leg jump" is actually me walking towards a spot where I can do a SVJ. So... it "makes sense" to bend forward as in a SVJ. I personally don't "have" a so called "running 2 leg jump". Granted, I haven't trained it too much.

Check out how much you bend over forward when you're doing KB swings... that's what I do when I jump (that's what I FEEL like doing, but I have to actively think to look at the rim to prevent that).

Core strength and stability imo. Collapsing at the waist is wasted energy.

I always thought it's a matter of weak quads, so the body wants to recruit the posterior chain more by bending foward and putting tension on the hamstrings/glutes more and relieve the tension off the quads. But it could be so many things.

I don't get how people maintain such a vertical back when jumping off two... I always have to bend forward at the hips to jump, and almost look to the ground. That's why I'm thinking maybe it would be a good idea for me to do front squats/high bar squats with a more vertical back.

Is it just a matter of lack of quad strength?