hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over the high jump and
what are some of the best techniques you could use in order to really maximize your high jump we're
going to be using uh derek druing and mutaz essa barshim as really the two primary people we're
going to be looking at their mechanics in order to really understand what you can do within your
mechanics to optimize your jump so as always if you like the information go ahead and click
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hop in the video right now all right so first thing we're gonna do here is look at uh barshim
and his jump so we're gonna look at it from behind here and you know there's a few things that i
think are super important super critical for us to be able to understand in order to really maximize
this jump first you can see the overall angle that he's coming in at you know it definitely
has that that curve i know a lot of people usually go through that curve but i want to just be able
to point out as many different things as we can here to really make sure you have a complete
understanding of what you can do in order to have a really great high jump also notice how much on
his toes he is as he's running you know even when he lands right here he's landing in really his mid
foot uh really on more of the inside part of the foot and then here on the last jump he's really
more on the again inside part of his foot as he's landing right so he has a good amount of his
pressure in more of what's called a inverted part of the foot so everything is kind of inside there
and then as he's going and pushing off he has his shoulders facing straight ahead you know square
that was a crappy arrow he has his shoulders and body facing straight ahead he's also going
straight up with that knee he's also reaching over with that that front side arm there his right arm
in this case and really trying to you know get that shoulder and head up over and then from
there he immediately goes into extending right so he gets that hand and head over okay and then once
he does that now he really hip thrust and get his hips up and over and then from there drives his
feet up into the air to be able to get the rest of his body up and through the actual jump all right
that was 2.33 meters there is what he was able to jump so uh druin is a little bit different where
he comes in with more of like a bounding type of a of a run there then the last second he gets more
of the acceleration and then when he's going he's a little bit different with his feet
and it just shows that there's really a wide variety of different movements you could use
in order to really get this high jump maximize so you can see he's not as much on the inside
part of the foot he's almost more on the outside part of his foot so he's like the reverse he's
kind of the opposite there as he's going he's he's pushing more straight up where you can see that uh
bashim was more on the inside part of his foot so he his more of his momentum was going towards
the actual uh you know high jump here that you can see with druid what he's doing is he's more
keeping his body mechanics straight up and then he leans more as he's actually pushing off right
so he leans with it more of his upper body and then he pushes his toe out to the side so he's
more pushing his body that way where bashim you more use straight vertical forces in order to get
off obviously both of them are at a very very high level so there's not one that's that's better than
the other but it is something that you can utilize to be able to help you what i would say is that
he's very similar with his arm and his head gets over as soon as his head and shoulder get over now
he goes into hip extension gets that hip all the way up and through he doesn't have that ability to
get those hips as high as bashim did and then from there once he gets the hips over he goes and tucks
in and drives those those feet up into the air and up over his head what i thought was interesting
when watching this from this angle here is when he's coming up he is initializing that jump
from you know way over here right in in terms of we're going to look at the high jump where is his
his body right so he's initially coming off the ground on this part of the the mat right and as he
comes over he ends up coming over on you know this part so he started to jump here he's um you know
going over the pull here and then he is landing all the way over close to the other um you know
part of the high jump so there ends up being a lot of lateral movement happening during the jump
even though it is a vertical test he is moving a lot sideways as he's going through the movement
which i thought was very very interesting to be able to see now we'll go back to barshim
now one of the things that's interesting with barshim and we if i'm going to real
quick go back to druin when druin's pushing off he and and jumping he
is inside you know this line here and i would say he's pretty close to you know the actual
high jump when he's leaving the ground where if we go and fast forward again here to barsheem
notice that he when he's approaching he's a little bit further outside right and he's a lot further
away so his movement pattern again is a lot more vertical and he's going more that way as he's
coming off and not going as much kind of sideways as we saw with bruin right so you can see how he's
jumping and he's getting a lot of movement forward as he's going up over the uh the pole there
a lot on the inside part of the foot again pushes off gets his hand hand shoulder head up and over
then gets that hip extension drives the the knees and the hand the feet to the
chest and gets up and over all right we're going to go and look through one more here
or no we'll do two more so we're going here let's look at the other angle you know here from the
side you can see here with the landing how far out in front of the foot is in comparison to the hips
he gets a ton of ability to now create force into the ground as it's coming up and even when he's
pushing off you can see that he's able to get those hips right up over the toe so he's getting
super vertical and that push off there has a ton of range of motion through the toes ton right
roger motion through the feet in order to maintain that vertical motion and again um you know
he's able to keep everything very very facing straight ahead as he pushes off he kind of turns
that foot outwards and turns that knee inwards that creates a little bit more internal rotation
within the hip that will keep some stability within the hip as he's leaning over to the side
with the spine and will help him in being able to generate still a large amount of um hip range
of motion while he's bending within the spine so now once he gets that spine up and over he's able
to get those hips all the way up and through and part of that has to do with that internal rotation
that he created when he was coming off the ground there we'll go last one again with druid
and you can see how he loads both both hands here uh as he's pushing off he's not getting a ton of
range through you know a ton of action through the upper body i always talk about how important
the upper body is when it comes to jumping power just because i do think it's super important to
be able to load through that upper body and really use it when doing broadcast vertical jump things
like that but here when i'm doing the high jump you really can't just because you have to get
that hand all the way up and over you can see how he's very vertical as soon as he's pushing off the
ground he's very vertical with that shoulder to make sure that he's able to get all the
way up and through when he's going he he's in a similar position where he's facing straight ahead
but immediately upon him taking off he starts to turn to make it so now that that chest is facing
straight ahead or sorry straight up in the air to make sure that he's able to get his full back all
the way up and over and then from there you know just is able to have a lot of control through the
knees and through the feet in order to get himself up and over so that is probably one
of the biggest things you have to be able to do in order to high jump at the high levels get
excuse me great control of the feet uh and of the knees to make sure that you you know have a great
understanding of where they are to make sure you don't bump that um you know as you're coming up
and over even though i see most people kind of hit it with their shoulder or like their butt um but
it does seem like being able to get over with your your feet in the knees is a critical part as well
to be able to really um get to these high levels these are obviously olympic level uh high jumpers
the guys that are uh are able to you know achieve this at the highest level but you know i'm sure a
lot of you guys are you know more on the novice level trying to figure out how to get yourself
up into these these higher level um overall performers and the big thing that i have to say
for everybody the reason i do these breakdowns is because i think that the video analysis is such a
critical part in being able to really make a lot of big improvements within your performance and
so if you could just look at your you know after watching this video seeing some of the um parts
of the the foot mechanics and the position of the foot in comparison to the hip and the ability to
bend the spine and when to bend the spine and when to stay vertical with the shoulders and when not
to stay vertical with the shoulders um and how and when to turn the spine are all small little
critical details that make a huge difference in your ability to really generate a lot of force
and even how your movements going through the air we saw how barraging is going much more you know
this way as going where you know drooling is going much more this way now if you're just trying to
you know combine both where you're you know jumping from the side and just trying to get you
know right over or sorry really close to the mat and just trying to get right over um you probably
aren't going to be able to have as much success you might have to you know maybe take try taking a
little bit further distance so then you're able to you know get over like varshima's or you know come
off a little bit more to the side here and then go and and come all the way across like bruin does
i i think that there's a lot of great things you can take away from this video to really be able to
improve your high jump capabilities as always if you want to get a breakdown you want me to be able
to take a look at your overall performance be able to kind of compare it with these guys see what are
some key things to work on whether it be you know hip strength foot range of motion ankle strength
um you know there's a lot of different things you can obviously work on in order to improve
your jumping um and really that's going to be the big thing is after you get an analysis be
able to really get some drills and some clear understanding of what you can do in order to
maximize this so if you are interested in that go ahead and click the link down below in order
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