Jump training

Hi There

I was woundering are some good exercise to improve your jumping skills such as: vertical leaps, distance leaps, explosive leaps, quick leaps, stretches, the right way/wrong way to jump and so on.

Thank Yous

"I was woundering are some good exercise to improve your jumping skills"

well, the magic answer to this is: JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUMP

Here's a good idea for practicing your jumps.

Get a shovel, go into your back yard, and dig a hole just deep enough for you to barely jump out of. Then, jump out of it until you can't jump out anymore. Once jumping out of the hole becomes quite easy, dig it 6" deeper. When you can jump out of a 6' deep hole, you should see some improvement in your jumping skills :)

-J

recently I was compaining about my jumping skills and Shifu looked at me and just smiled.

"you are only jumping with your calves...use those legs to jump!"

make sure that you are actually using the big muscles of the leg, rather than the smaller muscles of the calf.

also I found that squat leaps seem to help.

Squat down and jump "like a frog" till you can't. I am doing this right now. I have been motivated to be a thinner pig this year....

Just a few pennies from a pig...

IronPig

Plyometrics...

Criss cross will make ya JUMP JUMP a daddy mac will make ya JUMP JUMP.


If you want to jump high strengthen your trunk and legs. And yes lots of plyometrics. It's also about timing between your muscles. Kind of hard to explain. Everything in kung fu should make you jump higher.

If your not bleeding, your not having enough fun.

but i have a real bada$$ vertical and long jump. i am only about 5'4'' and can vertical jump about4 feet .. right around my clavical. im not sure if my butt would clear a pole as i jump onto walls to test myself, but my point is that i feel every succesful jump in my stomach. it makes my legs weightless which then send me soaring. maybe im imagining things . . but i am a white boy that can jump so probably not. i know that this doesnt work the strenght you are probably wanting to get from doing this but i have also noticed that half of the jump is phycological. you have to believe you can make it. start with walls that look a little higher than you can jump . . .one that you can make but not land. keep doing it until you sucessfully land it. work up.

If you're interested in more specifics on plyometrics, check out "The Martial Arts Athlete" by Tom Seabourne. There's a decent section on the subject, as well as a lot of physiologically sound stretching exercises.

It's not anything you couldn't figure out yourself, but at least you get a bigger variety of exercises listed and it's specifically geared toward martial arts.

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