THP177: What The Highest Jumper Did To Perfect His Jump Technique
There is one thing that you can do that can increase your vertical instantly. I'm talking fifteen to thirty minutes, you're gonna jump a couple of inches higher. Do you know what that is, John? Do have any guesses?
John:Cough medicine?
Isaiah:That's one. No. I'm just
John:Caffeine. Caffeine? Is it Crack? Is it you watching my sessions and belittling me?
Isaiah:Yes. Adrenaline? New shoes? Maybe.
John:Like Austin. This feels like Austin when Austin, like,
Isaiah:gives examples.
John:Is it finding a good court?
Isaiah:Yes. Potentially, but not not that's not quite there.
John:Anxiety?
Isaiah:We that all that's adrenaline.
John:Not eating for
Isaiah:two days. Enough. Enough, peasant. It's jump technique. It is Jump technique.
Isaiah:Jump technique. Yes.
John:Oh, are we gonna cover one foot or two foot? Let me guess. It's probably gonna be two foot because that's what we always do.
Isaiah:Screw one footers. Oh. Oh.
John:That's cool. No. I I think we could do it for both. I think we do it for both. So what are you the ultimate step.
John:Penultimate step. Talking about the penalty. Two foot and one foot. Okay. I could probably list three for one foot, I think.
John:So I have a couple for two foot. Two foot's a lot easier to, like, technically queue because it generally is the same for everyone. So Yeah. Let's first address this. Short penultimate long penultimate.
Isaiah:What is the penultimate? What is the penultimate step?
John:It's like the last step. Actually, I consider it the third to last step in two foot. Really? Yeah, because it's the third to last contact or second to last. It's the of the three contacts in the last
Isaiah:three contacts,
John:it is the third. It is the the earliest approach.
Isaiah:Third to last or the second to last. The step prior to the second to last contact.
John:Yeah. I was gonna say, how do you say that?
Isaiah:The big one.
John:That big one. Well, not if you're a long short guy.
Isaiah:Yeah. Then it's the ugly one.
John:Yeah. You can be an ugly duckling or a beautiful geese goosling, geeseling. And And we
Isaiah:both had an at the same time. That was beautiful.
John:And I'd rather see you be a beautiful the most beautiful goose in a gaggle than the ugliest duckling in a I don't know what a group of ducklings are called, but that's what I would rather you be. Yeah. So let's go through we can do both. That's fine. A group of ducklings is called a brood, which sounds terrifying.
John:If you wanna be the ugliest duckling in the brood or the most beautiful geese in a gaggle goose in a gaggle, you know, we're gonna go through both of these for two foot. So if you are and then we'll go through speed jumping, power jumping, because that'll also be relevant. Maybe high jump maybe high jump dunking differences because those are our two main demographics. So for two foot, give me one thing in a beautiful goose example. A beautiful butterfly.
John:What do you like to see? What is a major tip that you would give?
Isaiah:Let's this actionable. Big positions. I always look for big positions in an approach. And what that looks like on the penultimate specifically is a big split. So by split, I mean So big split, that's
John:your first one?
Isaiah:Big split between your front foot and your back foot. Really big split.
John:I like that. You know what my second one is?
Isaiah:And and I have I have some I have some standards for what I consider Yeah.
John:A big enough split. It's very simple. So give me like what your one
Isaiah:I would say front leg, it's like ninety, ninety, right? Your hip is at a 90 degree angle, your knees at a 90 degree angle. While your back knee is behind your butt.
John:Okay. So these are all cues I like I've used before. And the one I'm gonna pick is drive the knee. I think that is probably one of the biggest mistakes people make on two foot is that they do not drive their plant leg knee. That will give you a big split.
John:So I would say drive the knee is the biggest cue I could give, and drive
Isaiah:it as
John:hard as hard as you can forward, not upward. I don't know why you always get those, you know, little things, but I think it's I think it's like
Isaiah:And it's never when I try. It's
John:never when you try. Yeah. It's always random.
Isaiah:I I have a second backup tip if that one doesn't work, and I think this one actually has been working better. And I hope Jaden
John:Let's go. Alright. So, number one was big split. Number two, drive the knee. What's number three?
Isaiah:Push the hips forward
John:hard. See, that means nothing to me in my mind as a high jumper. I think I think.
Isaiah:I'm talking about this. And Like, humping feel stretch in your front leg and your rec fem, but it's this.
John:Yeah. Oh. Papa. Okay. So you clip that.
John:You can clip that. Nathan Nathan, add that to the clip. Dude, you wait until you see the intro of the next video. It is so funny. He made the most glorious conglomeration of stupid did you see what I put on my story, by the way, today?
Isaiah:No. No.
John:Please please look at it right now on the on the podcast and put
Isaiah:Do you want me to video to
John:if you can, that would actually be even better.
Isaiah:And Oh, you're the first person. You are the first person.
John:Because I'm I'm you watch my stories. That's why. Yeah. And I tagged your name. I didn't tag you, but I put your name in it.
Isaiah:Alright. Let's watch this.
John:Look at it.
Isaiah:Bro, that is so funny. That is literally so funny. That is us.
John:You can't tell me that's not us. We lifted the other day. Because there's one point in the lift at the beginning of the lift where we're like, oh. Oh my god, dude. That is so beautiful.
John:Anyways, so yeah. I don't know how that was related, but
Isaiah:We were out. We we took it. It it Oh, yeah.
John:Yeah. Yeah. A slight slight segue there. So I'm gonna so yours is big split, drive the knee, and then you said push the hip forward. Is that what said?
Isaiah:The hip forward, Feel a stretch in your in your ankle.
John:That's a fifth one.
Isaiah:Alright, there you go. Five point ultimate step tips.
John:No, that's the fourth. I'm sorry. Alright. So, this is actually.
Isaiah:I kind fall into the same.
John:Yeah. No. I think they're all different cues though. They're all different cues. Yes, that's the goal.
John:That's the outcome, but they're different cues. Like, the first one, big split, is a visual cue. Yeah. Drive the knee is a external external cue. Like, you would say knee the midget would be.
John:That's an internal cue.
Isaiah:Think little
John:person would be sorry
Isaiah:little person
John:need the little person three would be push the hip forward is kind of internal external. I think it's internal technically because you're focusing on your hip not it relative to an external object. I don't know that's confusing one and then feel a stretch. That's an internal cue. That's a tactile internal cue.
John:So that's one I like too. Like the cue sensations because they're very good for feedback. And if you feel a stretch, odds are you're probably doing it right. So I like to feel a stretch in my hip. That's how I know I'm doing it right.
John:And if I drive my knee and I feel a stretch, I know I've done it correctly. That's always The
Isaiah:OG for me and it's probably the one I use when I'm trying to take a break from openness. Yep. Push back behind hard.
John:Push hard. Push back. Push back. I like that. So these are the five that we listed that I think we like the most.
John:One is big split. That was a good one. Two, drive the knee. I like that one. Here's the I have a sixth one actually.
John:Three, push the hip forward. I don't when I'm going max effort, that just, like, happens. I don't know. I don't really use that one too often, but if you if it works for you, works for you.
Isaiah:That one specifically that one specifically helps people that kick instead of drive the knee.
John:Push your pelvis forward. I like that. Push them nuts forward. Four. Feel
Isaiah:the stretch.
John:Swing them balls. Swing them balls forward, not up. Forward. Feel the stretch
Isaiah:in your head. Technically,
John:swing him down. Yeah. Go down, not up. But I like four. That works too.
John:Five.
Isaiah:Drag them nuts on the ground
John:might be a good one. Drag them nuts on the ground. Five is pushed back hard, and six is I lost. I had it for oh, oh, oh, dude, the one word that comes to mind is, like, plant your penultimate step at the right spot. Or, like, I think about it like a lily pad.
John:Hit the fucking hit the freaking lily pad with your penultimate step. So for me, it's like around the free throw line just inside. I know if my I plant my penultimate step and I do everything else right, that step needs to come down about at the free throw line.
Isaiah:Your boy. Yes. Okay. There's there's a second thing that has to happen if you do that. Jump from the same spot.
John:Yeah. Yep. You can't jump further back.
Isaiah:A lot of people would He gets the ring. Farther and, like, plant farther and take off farther. No. You have to plant the same spot. Yeah.
John:And then I would say, okay. So let's do this one because this is also pretty relevant. Biggest mistakes we see. Number one, pushing the pushing your head, hips up, pushing upward off the penalty. That's probably the biggest mistake I see.
John:When people try to do this, they just they jump upward, and it turns into a jump stop. The key is to push forward and downward or at least level, at least level, at least level. Definitely not up. Up is the wrong direction. It at least has to either be level or slightly downward is the direction you all travel.
John:And that can be hard for people to do, but that's why I say drive the knee. Sometimes looking downward can help with that initially until you get good at it and you start to understand it. But, I would say that's the biggest one I see. Second mistake is people plant the block foot at the wrong time, and they swing the arms at the wrong time. So you have to be coordinated.
John:I think you have to have those timed appropriately. And it should be like for me, it feels like a push. I'm in free fall. And then my arms and block foot, as soon as my plant foot hits, if I'm jumping hard, the it's, like, in unison. I get big positions, and everything is very closely timed from plant to block.
John:And my block foot and arms are timed almost perfectly. That's when I know I'm gonna jump really high and transfer a lot of horizontal momentum vertically. So
Isaiah:Timing is huge. When I have good jump days, well, when I have good jumps during any jump day, it's usually based off of timing. I that's so prominent when I do vert testing. I guess so that's the biggest factor. Anytime I'm at max intent, that is the number one, like, mind you, at my experience, the elite level, thousands and thousands of reps in.
Isaiah:It's still I still mess it up. Like and specifically, it's like the arm swing with the block foot and then getting those last two steps like really quick and just like that timing that the as the block foot is hitting like my my hand should be at the very bottom of the of the
John:apex and time that out. Center like a piston. I'm down bottom dead center. So you know what's interesting about this? The thing I remember being the most difficult for me was footwork understanding your plant foot is like this.
John:Sorry. Like this, and your block foot is kinda like so I don't know if I can show it like this. So if this is my if I'm right left, this is my plant foot. This is my block foot. Understanding that was really hard for me because I lacked internal rotation.
John:So how I fixed that is I just twisted 90 degrees. So I would plant kinda like this and then plant the block foot in line with my heel. That always helped me a lot because I lack mobility. If you have good mobility and you can plant like Isaiah, definitely do that. But that was one of the hardest biggest struggles for me technically was that.
John:And two was being able to feel elastic on the block foot. That was so unnatural for me. I wanted to do a squat more clean. I wanted to step Really interesting. Step.
John:That was what naturally my body wanted to do. And if you watch videos from 2017, 2016, that is what I do. I literally take a step, take a step, and push upwards. It almost is like an off vert or like a rolling contact on a vertex. Now I'm able to use the elastic energy in my left leg, which was not natural for me.
John:And I'm a one foot jumper, so, like, I'm elastic on my left leg, but I could not time it or understand how to do that. Like, that was so foreign to me. I remember being so frustrated no matter how much I practiced. I could not do it. And because I always tried to do this, plant my right foot and plant my left foot like this and, you know, hit on the ball of the foot.
John:You know what else really helped me? Connor Barth said this. He said, I plant my block foot as hard as I am effing can. I slam that thing through the floor, and that also really, really helped me because it it helped me understand how to use the elastic energy in that step. And another thing that was really hard was getting the block foot in front of the body.
John:So, like, the better this foot is in front of the body, the more horizontal momentum you can transfer vertically, typically. Not always, but generally. Like CJ, Voldemort, people that run really fast, that guy Oliver, Guy Oliver, they they plant the block foot really, really far in front. And that is something that I couldn't do because I lacked flexion. The further the foot is in front of the body, the more my knee has to flex, and I lacked internal rotation.
John:So I fixed that by taking my feet and just twisting them like this. So instead of having to have internal rotation be pigeon toed, my feet were just kind of parallel. And I also took a narrower stance, and that's how I was able to use elastic energy. The downside is you're not strong when you're pushing laterally like that like you are when you're pushing, like, straight on. You know?
John:So Lewis used to tell me all the time. I'll never forget this. I came down. It's, 2019. You tore your quad that day.
John:And Lewis was like, square up. You gotta square up. You gotta square up. And I was like, I'm trying. I literally can't.
John:And and he just kept saying, no. You just gotta walk up, square up. And he made it look so easy. And I was like, I physically can't do that unless I'm doing the squatty frog jump. And that always stuck with me.
John:And it wasn't until I learned that I had to make some adjustments for my individual style or my individual mobility that I was able to work, which is why we all say internal rotation is so important and why Isaiah has more internal rotation on his block foot, his right leg, and his left leg, or definitely your right leg, right? Yeah. You have no external rotation on your right leg. No. Yeah.
John:Because you're always you're always internally rotated on that foot, which is crazy. So that's something I remember really vividly for what it's worth. Another cue that worked, which was weird, was like bee skipping on my plant foot, but then like keeping my shoulders forward. Because I would drive the knee and lean back. So that was another problem I had, and I had to learn that I had to drive my knee and keep my shoulders forward and down.
John:That way I wouldn't pop
Isaiah:is a really good way to describe it. It's like knee, foot, knee, foot. Most people are like most people are like hold up. Like that. Their whole leg moves in a unit.
Isaiah:It should be not this.
John:And then the last one was the block foot. I didn't get a big push and feel a stretch. I would try to be too quick after rolling my foot through the ground on the penultimate step. I would try to whip it around really quick instead of, like, pushing and being patient and allowing myself to feel a stretch. And then I'm snappy after I'm in flight.
John:So it's like, wait, float, plant foot, block foot swing altogether. It's like push, float in the air, and then explode off the floor, use all the energy vertically. So that helped really a lot too. So, yeah, I mean, another way I thought about it was, like, leaning into the ground or staying close to the ground when I was approaching. That helped me a lot too.
John:I mean, I'm not a forty five inch jumper, but I think considering the fact that I have poor mobility and I improved a lot relative to the beginning. Like, I wouldn't say I'm a good two foot jumper, but I do think I improved a lot. Like, dude, when I started, I was ugly. I was an ugly duckling. I was the ugliest duckling in the brood.
John:And now I'm like like a mediocre looking goose in the gaggle. You know? That's how I'd say it. And you're like you're like the leader, you know, you're the leader of the v. You know?
John:You're the most beautiful goose of the gaggle. You might even be a swan. Like, I'll take it. I'll take it.
Isaiah:So I my my thing is actually kinda it works well.
John:Bro, I think yours is I think you do some really interesting things that other people don't do.
Isaiah:It's different. I'll say that. Dude, when
John:you lean back a little bit and you're like vertical like this, your chest is like vertical coming in.
Isaiah:Yeah.
John:Your plant foot, when it hits, your pelvis literally goes and pushes you into this position. Like, the braking force is there from that collision of your femur yeeting your pelvis backwards. You come forward like this like if this is your plant femur and this is your torso. You're, like, in flight, like, and then you hit and your shoulders come forward.
Isaiah:And then the block foot, like, is almost like a tripod Yeah. That comes in.
John:Dude, I can literally see it in my brain because I've watched it so many times. But I don't think it's bad at all. I I wouldn't necessarily coach that
Isaiah:one. Think it's bad.
John:But it's like it's like the unintended consequences of jumping really high. That's what it
Isaiah:looks like.
John:Yeah. It's it's not something you think about, but it's something that happens when you're
Isaiah:not like like someone with, like, a beautiful approach. I think a guy is, like, name specifically right left athletes actually, like Jaw, Anthony Edwards, Travis Slade.
John:Slade. Good one. Superman Slade. Donovan. Like, it's like Calm.
John:Fast, really fast, beautiful approaches. Oh, speaking of this, did you hear that an individual called us Boy Scouts? How come I've just heard of this? Did you hear about this?
Isaiah:Sounds really familiar. I was reading that yesterday. Wait. Pause. Pause this.
Isaiah:Pause this.
John:Someone called us boy scouts, and I thought it was hilarious. I think I might get a shirt that says boy scouts or a hat. Shout out Cam Gilmore for that.
Isaiah:I fucking love It was him. It was him because he was like, in the video, he was like, no jump program. And then he was like
John:dunking over and over again. Wait. What?
Isaiah:Cam did that? Nah. I'm just gonna say the name. It doesn't it doesn't fucking matter. It's, Staples.
Isaiah:He did a video of, like Oh, it's a video? Yeah. But it was a video. It wasn't, like, calling us out or anything, but it was him being like, I'm 38 years old. Don't call me Unk unless you're unless your uncle is LeBron and then it was like him like doing windmills like 10 windmills in a row or something.
Isaiah:And then and then in the video, he said, no jump program. Like, you like said that. He he, like, emphasized it. And then I think the this was the same day. I think the boy scouts comment was on Tony's post, but I don't remember too well.
John:So we're catching strays. Yeah. Hey. You know what I say? No friends in the industry.
John:If you ain't THP, I I'm not your friend. Really? I literally have got to that point where I'm just like, I don't like, I I have gotten asked to be on a few podcasts and things like that, and I've been putting it off because not because I don't like those people or anything, but I've just learned that I'm happier and my life is easier when I don't have to navigate relationships with people that I see once a year. You know? And, I mean, like, don't get me wrong.
John:Like, I love I love Dan Back.
Isaiah:That's about it.
John:Yeah. I love Dan. I don't know Tim Riley, but he seems like a really genuine guy.
Isaiah:Yeah. He seems cool. There's a few sprints guys that I follow on Instagram.
John:Because they don't they don't really, like, cross that
Isaiah:Yeah. And they like they like my stuff. They post good research.
John:Yeah. Like, they're pretty they're pretty objective, and I think that's, like, part of being in sprints is that you have to be objective. You don't have the luxury of, like, being not very objective. Whereas a lot of other things, it's easy to be biased.
Isaiah:And with sprinting, there isn't the epidemic of freak athlete cell jump program. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like that at all. In in some way
John:happens, but sometimes Not
Isaiah:to the same extreme, though. No. Because because elite sprinting has a track for like, you have a path for success and you can it's a sport and you can become a coach and, like, all all those things. You don't have to sell a a sprint program
John:to make a living. That's more so with football guys. That's what you see.
Isaiah:Yeah. Yeah.
John:Well, not even athletes, but, like, I guess a couple. No. No. Not not even really, but you don't you see a lot of athletes sell coaching programs, which is interesting. Yeah.
John:But that's either
Isaiah:you I will say to to the to the previous point, our lives are so much better when we just ignore every like like, I've been more on Instagram the last couple days and it's resulted in like
John:I'm happy.
Isaiah:You know? You're It's resulted on a beef. I'm like, the the Chris Staples thing I noticed that. The other one, the poll that we saw.
John:Oh, yeah, dude.
Isaiah:And it's all of it's
John:I mean it definitely like gives us things to talk about, know?
Isaiah:It does. That's a good point.
John:But life is more boring
Isaiah:or life is less boring. I would say a little more not stressful. A little more stressful.
John:You're saying when you're on Instagram? Yeah. It's it says Pat GPT says stress is in the mind. The more you allow it to bother you, the more it will bother you, but the more you can just take it for what it is and walk away from it and kind of look at it. Like, I would say we're more secure in our business than we've ever been, so it's not, like, as much of a concern.
John:But there's definitely things there's an appropriate level of social media consumption that is valuable, that can inspire me, that can motivate me, that can give me good ideas. So I'm very careful about who I follow, what I follow, who I have muted, who I don't have muted. It can help me in some ways. But a lot of the time I found that our team is so good that I don't generally need that. And I can Yeah.
John:I can get that information from the team and I don't have to worry about it. So
Isaiah:It's funny over the years, like because I've been I've I've been pretty prone to getting into Beast. Arguments and shit and beef.
John:You? Me? Us? What?
Isaiah:And, it's funny. It's it always I've always backed it up every time. And now I'm at a level where I just feel like I can destroy anybody and, like, like, if you want me to destroy you dunking wise, I got you. And if you want me to destroy you, like, vertical jump wise, I got you. And before, basically, people are running out of things
John:to. They're like to. Well, well, but your biceps are small.
Isaiah:Something wise. Because like, bro, it's literally, I've I've talked to you about this before like, it's from the beginning, right? It was like low rims, then there was the dunks. Now, it's you're plateaued. Now it's I don't remember.
Isaiah:I don't know if you remember this where guy was it guy Oliver said he was like, oh, you're not a good coach as it hasn't improved.
John:Bro, I get that I get that so many times, and I think it's interesting. Like, I definitely I mean, I get a lot of hate. I get a lot of hate, and it's part of the reason why I'm aware of it now. And But
Isaiah:that that comment specifically was when I was at 46.
John:Really? Was that when we Los Altos? Yeah. A lot of the time, if someone says something about me, I'll just DM them and we talk about it. And if they're, like, really kind of abrasive, I don't like to bring public attention to it specifically.
John:I'll just talk to them. You know? Yeah. And I even did that with Voldemort, and he just went behind my back and started shit talking to other people. And I was like, alright.
Isaiah:I have some stuff to talk to you about off camera, by the way, about that.
John:Well, regardless.
Isaiah:Pause it. We can pause it real quick.
John:Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
John:Wait. Wait. Wait. Let's just finish
Isaiah:this out. Okay. Okay.
John:Actually actually, I'm really dying to know, but my heart is racing. I don't know what this is about to mean. Pause this. And just like that, we time skipped. And I am now forty minutes into the future, and I've learned tons of information.
John:I feel way more intelligent. To be honest, I learned so much. It's hard to pick up where I left off. So in short, in conclusion, we learned big picture, things to improve, pitfalls I had. Isaiah, we'll end it with this.
John:What are some pitfalls you had in learning two foot technique? What were your biggest personal problems with learning two foot technique, or did it just take come naturally to you because you're freaking nothing applies to you?
Isaiah:Biggest pitfalls.
John:With learning good jump technique.
Isaiah:Damn. You're taking me back, man.
John:I know. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to take you back, way back.
Isaiah:Fixing my arm swing was difficult. I used to like bend my arms back and I was really hard habit to break.
John:Accelerating. Shout out my brother by the way. My brother just texted me and said, I gave my students your life story today. My brother has a PhD in exvis, and he's a teacher at Elon. If you guys wanna get if you wanna take the true John Evans path and you wanna be like me, go to Elon and recommend Bill Evans.
Isaiah:The proper rhythm, I think, was was my biggest was my biggest challenge. I also used to crash my plant leg down, like, really badly. Like, really, really badly. That was a huge habit that took a long time to break. There's actually a lot of struggles.
Isaiah:I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't know why. I don't think I I suffered to, like, an extreme it was there was a lot of things that weren't perfect. That's that's what I would say. It's like, right now, if you consider every aspect of it 10 out of 10 or nine.
Isaiah:Five out of 10 in my technique, lots and lots of things were like sevens out of 10, eights
John:out of
Isaiah:10 and it took a long long. Like if you had to
John:rate, okay. So, let's say, plant foot slapping down, not good. Yeah. Rhythm of the block foot?
Isaiah:No, just acceleration. Rhythm of the whole approach wasn't perfect.
John:Really? So you started too fast and would slow down? Yeah. That's so interesting to hear. Okay.
John:Arms. And the
Isaiah:only way I fix it, you know what? The only way I was able to fix it is I only took four steps onto my approach for like two years. Like two years straight.
John:That makes perfect sense. That's why I tell people take three steps. Like three contacts. That's what I say. Mhmm.
John:That's why I say that just do the walk in and do the penultimate step from somewhere. I think 90% of your momentum needs to come from that step early on. Don't add momentum until you've mastered that because you can get 90% of the lowering speed on that step. Like, running might add okay. For an expert, maybe the running ads, like, 30%.
John:But you're still, like, most of your momentum should come from that stride if you do it right and the positioning and things. Only add speed once you've mastered that is what I would generally say. So and then your arm swing, that was a tough one for you because you always wanted to keep this 90 degree kinda weird blocky looking thing.
Isaiah:Yeah. And even my arms are like ran and stuff. My arms are always weird like you struggle with that.
John:That's actually crazy. It's almost like you like literally struggle. You were a little bit of a motor moron with your approach. Yeah. You look stiff and awkward.
Isaiah:Yeah. For a while.
John:Now, even bro,
Isaiah:I would like getting East Bay's and stuff beyond the backs. Like, dude.
John:Mediocre approach. That is a lesson in staying the course and consistency. Isaiah easily could have been like, oh, well, I I don't need to I I don't need to do this. I'm hitting behind the backs and windmills. Why would I need to perfect anything else?
John:This is a lesson in staying the course, sticking to it, and constantly trying to improve versus accepting the status quo.
Isaiah:I'm gonna show you oh, we'll close this out. This will be the last thing that that I show.
John:If you guys haven't watched the video yet, go watch the Travis Slay video. If you're interested on another long term story of someone that went from being a little pipsqueak in high school. I'm talking a hundred and fifteen pounds as a junior to being arguably one of the highest potential jumpers I think we one of the highest potential jumpers we currently coach.
Isaiah:Yeah. I should send an email out with, with that video, to be honest. Actually, my approach was decent. You know what fixed it? Reps.
John:And and reiterating. Reps reps reps reps looking at it.
Isaiah:I never I will say this though. This is a big thing. I don't think I was ever overthinking a crazy. No.
John:You were just like just like one thing at a time. You're like it's pretty good like it's 85. Yeah. Like I would do a
Isaiah:whole session Wouldn't think about my approach. I would look at the video. Be like, today, I'm to try four steps. Do the whole session. Not think about anything except that.
Isaiah:Then, a week later, be like, oh, my arms look a little weird here. Let me try to tighten them up. I wasn't I wasn't, like, hyper overanalyzing. I would jump, look at it. Oh, no.
Isaiah:This is wrong. Really?
John:The sensations. The sensations give you feedback. When I know I do a good jump, I'm like, shit. I felt long. I felt strong.
John:I felt fast. I felt quick, and I exploded everywhere.
Isaiah:Yeah.
John:You like that?
Isaiah:Yeah. I like when you feel long and fast and you explode.
John:That was intentional in every way. But, anyways, I think this is a good a good place to drop it off. I'll ask you more about this another time. We can let's do one foot tomorrow. Alright.
John:Friday tomorrow, we'll do one foot tomorrow. But thank you guys for watching. I hope you enjoyed this. If you want the most science backed, evidence based, peer reviewed, reiterated, perfected jump program coaching on the planet. Go to tspshank.com.
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John:So that's where I stand on that, and we will see you guys tomorrow. Boy Scouts Club out. Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts. Scouts honor.
John:What's the
Isaiah:always be prepared. Always be prepared.
John:Scouts honor.
