love your videos! Useful and direct to the point. I'm entering my first masters' meet this August and having forgotten how to do it, I'll use your drills as my reminder and coach:)
I’m also Left foot jumper… If we plan to incorporate a hitch-kick, does it make sense to get into the Chair, starting w/ Right leg? Won’t I be starting w/ Left leg after a Hitch?
For new athletes, or beginners, it teaches spatial awareness and movement timing for popups where you have to run out of it instead of landing. Also is a lead-in drill for takeoff hold drills (pop and block) and the hitch kick.
In many instances experienced high jumpers enter their take-off step. In a manner with their inner shoulder twisted backward. The centripetal force created from the approach conversion phase arc should create vertical rotation. Momentum generated during the approach conversion phase directly impact upward drive and vertical rotation.
Good question. So the sit drill has two purposes. The first purpose is to break the human instinct to land on your feet. We assume are wired to want to land and run but our center of mass needs to continue on the parabolic curve that it’s following and if we put her feet down to early then we’re missing out on that extra distance. So the sit drill just gets us comfortable getting Sandy. The second thing it does is it allows us to get our heels to be the first thing to make contact with the sand and collapse in the sand as a decelerate. This is an early stage drill . Eventually, you were correct you want to get to a point where your heels make contact first and then you pull your hips to end up making contact with the sand at the same spot that your heels made contact. I will have quite a few more detailed explanations for this, and some of the landing videos will be coming out soon.
@@JumpersUniversity Thank you so much for that. I did long jump and triple jump in HS and now I am getting ready to coach some of my friends kids during the off season and your video was a nice refresher for me.
