my SL SVJ is not at all similar to my normal SVJ. you know this, T0ddday, i dip like kingfish on my SVJ.
LOL. You used to dip like kingfish on your SVJ. I don't think it's worth the work but IMO you look completely different now. Watching your ball throws and jumps you look about 10X more hip dominant and your pop is light years better than it was...
I mean you jumped 36'' off one step... I bet if your goal was to maximize your SVJ you would move away from that massive dip and find you actually can just just as high or higher without it now... No point in doing it because your goal is dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk.... But I would still bet on it...
What I mean isn't that it "looks" like it so much but that the muscles used and body positions are more similar.
A good running single leg jump has the center of mass lower before the penultimate step - when you do a running SL vertical jump on the last step you are dealing with a body that is accelerating upward and forward - the last step is a change of momentum moreso than a vertical impulse.
When you do a running DLVJ with a lot of speed you will often notice that the back leg (in a RL plant this is the right leg) is actually coming off the ground before the left leg - this is similar to a running single leg vertical jump...
The point is that in a single leg vertical jump you have to generate the vertical impulse on one leg - perhaps if we made kingfish do this he would go full out pistol on these... People with great running SL verticals do not necessarily have great single leg standing verticals - the correlation isn't there. This is what I mean by a teaching tool... If we train SL vertical and then allow you to do pentultimate sl legs it does help the athlete learn what SL running jumping is...
I'm not sure if that is well written - maybe it makes no sense... Would probably take some time to write up and explain well...
