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Yeah I completely agree. Plus the squats target many more muscles so... there ya have it.

However I did hip thrusts in the past and they were pretty good, I'm jumping higher now despite barely squatting 120x3 yesterday so... there has to be something (I also do kettlebell swings which are basically "power" hip thrusts)

Yeah I couldn't understand that... how can you deload by 10% if you pick up where you left off? wtf

I remember Kelly talking about this in the past, and if I remember right, it was supposed that it helps to push off the big toe with the feet and therefore involve the glutes better (not sure what the actual mechanism is, but that's what I remember).

Me personally - I use it when I jump off two feet without the ball in hand. I feel like I can gather more energy this way, like it gives me better rhythm etc, hard to really explain.

Why don't you give Joel Smith's program a try. I did it in the past and was jumping ~36-38 off one leg then.

http://jumpcoach.blogspot.ro/2008/12/merry-christmas.html

That's just retarded. And then they probably come in and complain that "strength training causes injuries and long term damage".

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-j3RoNBscY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-j3RoNBscY</a>

Seriously...

What's wrong with these people? Why in the world would anybody train with such HORRIBLE form. Even Diesel Weasel would puke about that form

Strong.

Muscles are all that and they have everything to do with this awesomeness.