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The problem is - when I buy it it's bagged in a plastic container, and you can't open it unless you buy it. But it's about 3 euros so...

Funny you talk about jump roping, I'm going right now to buy one. Are there more sizes to it depending on how tall you are or anything?

Well at least in my case, this thing appeared after doing some heavy squats + heavy deadlifts, follow by SMITH MACHINE calf raises (that always give me back problems) and some high rep leg extensions. Then it accentuated after I did 90x20 half squats while having "some" back pain.

I don't like them either. Those so called "Romanians" are actually thieves and gypsies with Romanian nationality that go abroad to steal and beg for money. Truth being told, the majority here has a very low education level, due to former communist regime, so... you can't expect too much.

i know what he meant, lol, and still: ?

You did? Dang, I thought you needed my superior understanding to translate it to your level. Lol, just kidding.

I actually managed to watch it... but damn you got huge.

Why is it that I jump the same height running from far out and jumping as I do off a slow and short distance run up?  how can I improve that?

It's because you don't actually benefit from all those additional steps. Taking myself as an example, when I was very "thin" (weighed 147 lbs) I used to jump very well off 7-10 steps of momentum. Now at 180 lbs I tend to jump well off 3-5 steps and actually jump worse from 7-10 steps because I'm more into accelerating into the jump now, whereas in the past I used a constant speed and jumped pretty much reactively at that speed, without force being an important factor. And obviously, I was weighing less.

It's still a matter of being able to amortizate properly in the last step, to prevent knee collapse and proper horizontal to vertical transformation of momentum, and for that you need strong quads and probably good calves.