These drills separate jumping into its separate components, the up part, and the down part.
The key to both of these drills is landing with your knees no more bent than when you took off.
First: jumping up onto an object
The value of jumping onto objects is that is minimizes the stress to muscles and tendons because there is much less excentric contraction than if you were landing from the same hight. Additionally, having an object to jump onto gives good automatic feedback. Either you give max effort and land on the platform or you eat splinters. [read more…]
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