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i wouldn't try to make your step as long as possible. i'd just focus on getting as high as possible and use that as your only cue. if a longer step gets you higher, then great. but maybe the longest step possible is less optimal than a slightly shorter one. mess around, the only rule is height.
the only advice i can give with respect to the relative distance of your steps is that each additional step you add to your approach should add height to the jump. so start with one step. if the first step doesn't add any height relative to your SVJ, practice it and mess with technique until it does. then add another step and mess with technique until two steps is consistently higher than one. et cetera. whatever relative length of steps you end up with will be specific to you, and pretty well greased, like adarq said.
i never approach from more than four steps away because i can't seem to get any additional power out of the fifth step. although now that i think about it i haven't tried in a long time. might do that this week, just to see.
we call this the T0ddday method.
Have still been jumping, doing deadlifts here and there. Still planting LR, tried RL today, bothered my left knee a bit, so am gonna stop. I feel like I need to work on 1 or 2 step jumps to properly work on having a long penultimate step. On a full approach, I'm trying to have a long penultimate step, but I'm doing this weird thing where I make my 2nd last step long, bu then my penultimate step is short. Maybe I'm still quad dominant?
dno if one can say just because of the length of those last two steps whether it's quad dominance or not. at least I don't know, that's for sure.
it's something you can play with during warmup jumps etc... but when you go max effort, that stuff is pretty hard to change. I never really tried to change it when I was actually going max, only thing I thought of was getting more aggressive (in general and in my runup), and jumping harder + aggressive arm swing.
in general, with pretty much everything, the less you have in your mind when performing something @ max effort, the better. you basically want to just go all out and lose yourself. This is what happens when we have those occasional amazing jumps in a pickup game for example, where we just aren't thinking at all, yet get up so good, unexpectedly. The more thinking you do during a movement while going max effort, the worse the outcome, usually.. (in my opinion).
pc!
Missed this!
High vs low....depends on application and player. I cant jump in anything but a basketball shoe and while i dont have ankle issues, I dont "trust" low tops very much. Played in Kobes, KDs, 2015 Hyper Revs, etc...I can and have had no issue but subconsciously I have some issue with it.
As for the rehab stuff... soreness is ok sometimes. Its the muscles getting used to being used again. Pain is usually not ok. Have you tried just doing nothing for a few weeks then doing a few weeks of strict rehab lifting (low weight, medium/high reps to promote healing)?
Whats your rehab been like since November? How much have you lifted and jumped on it? Is it pain or soreness?
