Actually, you can recruit all your motor neurons from doing 80%+ of 1RM squats, so the need of doing depth jumps knowing that is SEVERELY overrated.
really?
I think depth jumps are overrated too. I think jump squats can accomplish the same type of eccentric force absorption that depth drops are supposed to, it's all about gravity after all right?
For example, sometimes when I go do sprints on the track the fence is locked so I hop over. After I climb to the top and put my leg over sometimes i jump from there, it's a good depth drop, my hips are at about 7+ feet I'd say. When I used to do 185lbs jump squats back in the day WAY before I could even squat 2x bw, I could EASILY land in a half squat position from that drop.
Doing more depth drops also helps me land more easily form that drop... but when I wasn't doing any plyos and was squatting often, I couldn't land it like that, I just landed in a deep squat.
But I think that ability whatever it is is very useful for jumping but depth jumps aren't necessary. And the way more people perform depth jumps, off of very low heights, is probably useless. I prefer single legged depth jumps only. But since I made this video i'll do these more consistently too.