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Hi all

Now the off season has started, a friend of mine (20 year old girl) asks me how she can improve her vertical. She's a volleyball player, and a setter,  so her main priority is improving blocking skills, so vertical without runup.

She's certainly not fat, I believe like 62 kg or so for 5'4 (this is a guess, she never told me how much she weighs, lol ), and her overall fitness level isn't that bad either: after all, she plays vball four times a week in season. But I think she misses a lot of jumping efficiency right now: her vertical (SVJ as wel as RVJ) is REALLY low, like 12-15 inches or so. You can barely see she is jumping, actually. Probably she also needs some strength.

How can I help her improving her vertical? She doesn't have acces to a gym, but I don't know if that is necessary, right from the beginning. Should I let her do a lot of simple, light plyo's, and a bit of bodyweight strengthening? I'd like to hear your opinion on this. Thanks!

Lukas

Made a new vid for RVJ form check. I also included a set of depth jumps from 18 inch box at the end. The jumps are really low, like 22 inches or so.. Didn't tape a normal svj, but it's a little bit higher, like 24 inches (I once got 27 or so on a day I was really psyched up, but normally it's always like 24 inches). I'm squatting around 1.8-1.9 BW now, so it seems very low to me... And there's really a big difference between SVJ and RVJ.

Anyway, here's the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJnT-ZPwVo (Something went wrong with rendering I think, the actual vid is like 2 minutes, after that it's just a black screen  )