My Progress

Mostly parkour training specific
 

Three rather scary jumps

The setup:

The jumps:

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Each jump had a different scary element. The first goes diagonally to a railing 6'+ above the ground, the second you have to stay really low to not hit the I-beam, and the third was 12.5 of my feet long with about a 3' drop - big jump. Took awhile to build the courage for each but turned out to be not that bad. Will have to retry the jump at UW to see if my standing jump with a drop has really improved that much. 

The next is from the lounge back down to the railing...which I am not looking forward to :( Still really wary of down railing precisions. 

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Posted February 23, 2010
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Standing jump - one arm muscleup the lounge lip

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The jump is right about at my peak (for a grab) at 9' 4.5" which will be nice as a baseline. There is a 2x6 lip on lounge which why I can get overgrip and do the one-arm, this wasn't a good one - will need to smooth that out too

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Posted February 3, 2010
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The safety technique for precision landings works!

I've been experimeting with this technique for awhile and put it to the test today on a tricky jumping course using the bar precision trainers.

The idea is that you land and allow yourself to not only go all the way down into a crouch but also put a hand down to the side. If you split your weight this allows a bit more strength control on your landing but the real benefit is that you can stick out the inbetween leg in front or in back for quite a lot of recovery, basically going directly into safety/step vault position.

It worked really well on a course I only did correctly without hands once. Surprisingly I found that I started jumping smarter too, possibly because it was easier to choose the target or I was able to relax more knowing I had more recovery room (I was try to imitate doing a bar to bar precision high up enough that you wouldn't want to come down). Made the series of four jumps four times in a row.

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Posted January 22, 2010
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Test Day 09.12.29

9' standing long jump
26" standing vertical jump
12' wall touch (on the white painted concrete)

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Posted December 29, 2009
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Box jump the beast

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This will serve as a good start test before Starting Strength, I hope to figure out how to use a lot more of my hamstrings. I'm about 5' 9.5" and the Beast is 49". Rafe promises massive gains ;)  

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Posted December 21, 2009
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