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Why put your back into unsafe positions with the deadlift, when you can do bad form squats and get a great spinal work?

The deadlift is just unsafe.

To increase compliancy, the load has to be light. When you do a dynamic warm-up, or dynamic stretching, you don't put out a lot of force or load on that joint, so the load is light and it goes on a long ROM => increases that tendon's compliance.

So you want compliant hip flexor tendons (dynamic warm-up, leg swings, stuff like that), stiff quad tendons (1/4 and 1/2 squats, high intensity 2-leg bounds, consecutive hurdle jumps - this is the area where I'm personally the weakest, and an area where you can FINALLY find a good reason to do half squats and quarter squats) and stiff Achilles tendons (heavy calf raises, intense calf-oriented plyos (one leg bounds, depth jumps)).

If you break it down like this, then you can have a good idea of how to program a plyo workout to get all these three better.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTtgETIq4IY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTtgETIq4IY</a>

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

http://www.insane-athletics.com/blog/index.php/analysing-the-one-leg-jump-part-vii-the-tendons/

It would be an interesting challenge though, I guess.

Do you do low bar or high bar squats? Because at your height, if you do high bar squats they will most likely terribly suck.

Hey, I was hoping I could just get some ideas on what people think really works to help improve vertical leap. I've done kelly baggetts vj bible and to be honest didn't improve a lot. I'm 6'5 fairly strong and fast , play semi pro bball but can barely dunk, really embarrassing for my size

Chances are your strength is lacking big-time.