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 Practice jumping from a run more, work on your lower leg strength and reactive ability.  Calf raises, stiff leg ankle hops, pogo jumps, etc.  There is usually a set distance that most people will get optimal height out of regardless, but just practicing from a little further out, being able to absorb more force in your plant and rebound out, and implementing some lower leg specific work will do the trick most of the time.

the exercise examples in the quote pasted are to improve your reactive ability....  You can do low level depth jumps but you dont need them right now. 

 Youre probably making your single leg jumping form worse by trying to concentrate so much on the penultimate step, instead of just jumping.  Different athletes use waaaaaaaaaaaaay different penultimate steps, structure, leverages, speed, strength, all individual characteristics factor into that.

  Practice the 1-2-3 drill over and over until you feel very comfortable with it, its just basically 3 steps accelerating into a jump on the third, you will naturally develop a "penultimate" step by doing this, just like you will naturally develop a plant by doing it with two legs.  Main thing is ACCELERATE. Each step gets progressively faster, dont worry about the distance. 

the exercise examples in the quote pasted are to improve your reactive ability....  You can do low level depth jumps but you dont need them right now. 

 Youre probably making your single leg jumping form worse by trying to concentrate so much on the penultimate step, instead of just jumping.  Different athletes use waaaaaaaaaaaaay different penultimate steps, structure, leverages, speed, strength, all individual characteristics factor into that.

  Practice the 1-2-3 drill over and over until you feel very comfortable with it, its just basically 3 steps accelerating into a jump on the third, you will naturally develop a "penultimate" step by doing this, just like you will naturally develop a plant by doing it with two legs.  Main thing is ACCELERATE. Each step gets progressively faster, dont worry about the distance. 

I see, once I am able to comfortably and smoothly do a 3 step single leg jump, ACCELERATING on each step, should I start adding in more steps?

Quote from: Ineedtodunk on May 02, 2011, 01:31:29 pm

Quote from: LanceSTS on May 02, 2011, 03:07:53 am

the exercise examples in the quote pasted are to improve your reactive ability....  You can do low level depth jumps but you dont need them right now. 

 Youre probably making your single leg jumping form worse by trying to concentrate so much on the penultimate step, instead of just jumping.  Different athletes use waaaaaaaaaaaaay different penultimate steps, structure, leverages, speed, strength, all individual characteristics factor into that.

  Practice the 1-2-3 drill over and over until you feel very comfortable with it, its just basically 3 steps accelerating into a jump on the third, you will naturally develop a "penultimate" step by doing this, just like you will naturally develop a plant by doing it with two legs.  Main thing is ACCELERATE. Each step gets progressively faster, dont worry about the distance. 

I see, once I am able to comfortably and smoothly do a 3 step single leg jump, ACCELERATING on each step, should I start adding in more steps?

yep, thats the ticket, break it down into those last 3 steps, that really helps single leg jumpers a ton.  Once you have that down pat, you can start using a longer run up and you will notice that your last 3 steps will set up your penultimate step as well as your jump very nicely.

Nice! thanks Lance.  Hopefully I get a couple inches off mastering the technique.  My brother has about a 38" vert and he's a 2 legged jumper, and he get's that high without proper technique cause he kind of stutter steps on his last 3~4 steps on his jump, so I kinda naturally copied that into my single leg RVJ.  I run up, slow down my acceleration, stutter stepping, and then go into my last 2 steps (penultimate and take off).  Now I see that I'm just losing my momentum that way.