Honestly, no. I don't see much similarity to a high jumper jumping off one leg and the other video. High jumpers have to turn their body cause they flop! You do realize that right?
Anyway...there isn't much point to responding to this thread... but please notice that you summed up your point really succinctly in your last post. First people pointed out the flaws with what you offered up as research to support your argument. Then you were presented with multiple athletes who all perform the same activity (two footed jump) equally well and you responded with:
"I still believe T-DUB possesses the better athleticism & elastic energy which separates him from the rest"
In the end your whole argument comes down to this. You believe he is better than the rest (for no measurable reason) and therefore his technique is better. In the best case this is harmless. You might continue to train and keep your focus on getting stronger, leaner, and more dynamic while also spending a few minutes of your training sessions trying to emulate how Tdub jumps. If you follow this course you will no doubt jump higher and whether or not your ascribe a large part of your improvement to copying his technique doesn't really matter.
However... That's the best case. I am no expert on vertical jump improvement but I have seen so many athletes have their block start simply ruined by the same line of thinking you are displaying. All too often, whether it's Asafa Powell's toe drag or Maurice Greene's low block position, any idiosyncrasy displayed by an elite athlete is analyzed by idiot coaches and determined to be beneficial and then copied by athletes all around. When the mechanical change is small (ie. Michael Jordans tounge wag) usually the effect is small. But when athletes to completely retool their start to look more some elite athlete the effect is never positive. Asafa Powell has probably been dragging his toe for twenty years. It doesn't help him, but he is probably so used to his movement pattern that it doesn't hurt him much either. Although I have never really trained for vertical specifically, I think I am pretty safe to assume that the main ingredients for speed and vertical are the same:
A) Be really strong
B) Be really light (relative to A)
C) Be really reactive
Asafa drags his toe but Maurice Greene doesn't. But they both accomplish A,B,and C better REALLY well. Tdub has this strange takeoff. The other examples presented to you do not. But again; they all accomplish A,B, and C REALLY well. In fact you won't find a elite counterexample for A B and C! That alone should be reason enough to focus on those. Get A,B and C down. Getting A B and C down might even change your mechanics such that you jump in a mechanically unique way which favors your body. In the meantime try to let your progress get derailed by over analysis. Good luck!
