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Monstrous. It really is. You're starting to head towards freaknation, and fast.

I want some one-leg jumps now, I just have a feeling you're going to jump very high off one-leg at this point.

You're pretty much jumping like I expected to... way too slow. You look strong and "heavy". You're currently not able to compress like I'd want you to and release that "compression" quickly. I also think that you might need some better hip flexor strength/explosiveness. In my experience (nothing too scientific here) - it's the hip flexor isometric strength that controls how that jumping leg sustains shocks at the hip and makes you "trust" your plant at that joint.

To me, one of the reasons for your lack of speed and "leg control" (which determines the lack of speed) is that - you need better hip flexor strength. Now of course that's only one small problem. For the others (movement efficiency) you should jump a lot more at the basket until it becomes second nature.

One thing I could recommend, and this was first recommended to me by RJ in the past - is to put a marker on the ground and jump from there to touch the rim, aiming for length. Then as you touch it, put the marker further. The further away in length the rim is, the more speed you're going to need to accumulate to touch the rim. Also, it forces you to involve the posterior chain more and more.

Another thing is - you should come from an angle. Right now you're going perpendicular (in terms of body lean to a side or the other laterally) to the rim. You might want to change the angle, coming from the left side of the rim and lean to the left a bit (plant more sideways). If you do that, some rotation will occur and that will help as additional force into taking some of your bodyweight off (same as when you drive your non-jump leg's knee up - you take away some of your bodyweight making the jump easier).

And cortisol levels? Are these guys crazy or something? Why would you want to increase the cortisol levels?

midget_hops

Correct^^^ biologically. But then it's a matter of education and entourage.

Yeah, the same thing can be applied to a kneeling jump.

This makes me remember what Axel said on TVS some two years ago.

Try to hit yourself in the balls with a hammer. Then jump. You won't get very high.

So obvisously, the balls are very important to jumping.

How about dwarves?