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Background: 6'3", 75kg/165lb, 29 years old, current ATG front squat 120kg, best full backsquat 130kg (no belt).

Through training & diet i've taken my SVJ up from 20" to over 30" which i'm happy with. I can dunk SVJ with one hand, both hands and almost there with a reverse SVJ dunk.

I now have a decent SVJ and three step jump. I jump much less from RVJ. Always has been the case for as long as I can remember.

Training hasn't done much if anything for my quicker RVJ, it's remained pretty much constant as far as I can tell.

I would like to get my RVJ moving up now. It's more useful to me than SVJ is, SVJ is nice and all but RVJ is sexier and more applicable to sport. To get a good SVJ I dip down quite a bit, approaching the positions and angles of a deep squat but for RVJ where the knee angle is much smaller, I don't get much VJ out of my gym training.

I've never done any jump specific exercises before but I think it's time I started.

Which basic exercises, movements or drills should I add to improve my RVJ in particular?.

Thanks for your time.

you might want to start with lower volume depth jumps than that. 4x5 is kind of a lot.

Objections sustained. To me depth jumps where always easy. 4x5 is normal volume and 18'' is rather medium impact, it is 27'' that make them challenging. But i gotta admit i got very lucky in the joints gene pool, i should not generalize based on that.

You know i hate correlations, lol. But yeah, i would guess there is a two-way correlation. Efficient DJ = big tendon stiffness and also great ability to reverse an overloaded eccentric, at the exact RVJ knee bend. The latter is also true for partial squats. Both those qualities are supposed to aid a good RVJ.
My own story confirms that in a way, I am very good at partial squats and DJs, and i do have an RVJ higher than my full squat/body composition would suggest. Used to have anyway
So yeah , back to the topic, definitely include depth jumps entropy!!!

Btw why do they have to be done before squatting?

It's a general recommendation, not just for DJs, for all 'faster' movements ( plyos, jumps, power cleans/snatches, speed squats etc ). Legs are more 'fresh' for them before the squats, and also they potentiate the following squats, so it works good both-ways. I don't have a study/article/whatever to back it up though.

I tried it once when someone told me to sprint before squatting. I had teh worst squat workout and swore off never to do it again. Maybe jumping is different but i'm wary..

They were 5x30s but point taken, I'll experiment with depth jumps before and after and see which works better

Dunk practice also helps rvj and the coordination with a ball. I usually just start at the three point line and drive to the basket trying to explode up and dunk. Really concentrating exploding from my LR plant. Oddly enough I get the most explosion out of a crossover starting my drive, instead of driving straight to the basket. Helps get me lower I think. How are your rvj dunks compared to your standing dunks? Easier?