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No. I just intentionally said "what in the actual fuck" to boost up the video a bit for the people who "will" not see that.

I mean if you watch it you can see a ton of "he got pushed up" comments everywhere... it's crazy to think I'm that unaware of stuff. You don't even need to see those comments, you can see that for yourself as you watch the video. Whatever.

Wait... so you genuinely think I was genuinely not aware he was pushed up a bit? Um...

Now!

That's an ORDER!

5x squat:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zim8sMpaD90" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zim8sMpaD90</a>

I also read on a sprinting site that training (sprinting) on a stiff surface tends to make the tendons compliant, whereas training on a compliant surface tends to stiffen up the tendons... who knows if this is true.

Wrong tag ^^^

You should film some depth drops from the same box height as in the video, focusing on not collapsing at all at the knee. Basically landing in a foot dorsiflexed position (weight over the whole foot) and not allowing collapse.

I know a lot of people recommend landing on the toes on the depth drops but I don't agree at all with that. That promotes the very problem you and I have right now. It's MUCH better to land on the whole foot while having them dorsiflexed and not allowing knee collapse/having the arms as if you're preparing to jump up immediately.

So try that - film some depth drops from the same height focusing on these things. If you're able to do them right then you can focus next on actually taking off from that position.

Yes you are, and that was predictable. I am as well. Basically horrible.

The question to ask is - why? Structure? Quad strength? Calf strength?

For me the obvious answer is the lack of quad strength. Hence my big difference between my low bar and high bar squat, my sucky "anything that has to do with the quads" thing (think front squats), I kind of struggle doing leg extensions with weights that other people that don't care about legs can do in my gym.

I have pretty good calf strength since I'm a one-leg jumper... you take the hips out in a depth jump so it's calf+quad.

You might say "yeah but I have a 2x low bar squat". My question is - what about high bar? What about a quad-driven squat? Because  if you're good in putting out hip power in the low bar squat that will mask the lack of quad strength.

I don't know about you, but I will start doing high volumes of high bar squatting with light to moderate weights (think something like 4x10 with ~50% of my low bar 1RM).

Other than that you need to put yourself in situations that call for you maintaining that foot dorsiflexion, which is what consecutive hurdle jumps do.