Video #1 - Playing it through at-speed, the new faster approach looks GOOD!!! You get a great Lean initiated in 6 & 7, and shape of the J is good. Step 10 ends up a little far from the bar, so you have to release into the bar to get over - makes for a longer lower parabola. (You can "see" your parabola's shape by going forward frame-by-frame from step 10 kind of quickly and watching your "belt" - where your black top meets your brown sweat pants. This parabola is actually pretty good for the new speedy approach!) Pure conversion of this much speed into purely vertical height takes strength! Also the usual turning of your shoulders away from the bar between 9 & 10 is something we can improve on... LOVE the new faster approach - it will allow higher heights! Video #2 - Not quite as fast as #1. Pacing of 7-8 comes up, but then 9-10 are blah. Still great Lean initiation as 7 comes across - this is looking very good and I think you've created a positive habit here! Release angle is the main problem on this jump - you just come up THROUGH the bar more than you want to... Watching your belt you can see the peak of this jump is BEHIND the crossbar, and you break the jump early while your shoulders are still well above your hips - look what hits the mat first! Video #3 - NICE speed again on this one. The thing that caught my eye here watching at full speed was how your arms just dangle down as you run the turn. Going frame-by-frame, we see that both arms are down toward the ground very early, between 7 & 8. And they just kind of stay down there until you bring them back up for lift at 10/Release. Shoulder direction at 9/10 isn't good on this one either. Great arch and plenty of clearance at the top of this jump - but break timing tells me we were probably not talking in the air on this one... Video #4 - Speed & pacing are OK on this one - not great, not bad. This jump is better because of a really good release angle - very close to vertical. Go to the frame where 10 is flat on the ground, forward 1 frame to where 10 is on the toe, and forward 1 more frame to where the plant foot is off the ground. Look at these 3 frames repeatedly - cursor forward, forward, pause, back, back, pause, forward, forward, etc. Look at your "belt" as you do this and you can see the line along which your CG (Center of Gravity) is releasing. Pretty vertical on this one, huh? Video #5 - Great speed but you don't control it on this 5'0" attempt. You can see you're all the way un-leaned already as 10 hits the ground. Looking at the 3 frames for the release angle again, you can see it is not nearly as vertical on this jump. You "fall out of the turn" and rise up through the bar - not much of a chance to clear... Video #6 - Really, REALLY fast on this one - WOW! You get up mostly above it, but I think an early break causes the miss - what do you think? Video #7 - 4-step: Pacing pretty blah - where's the new speed?! The moment you leave the ground you are at 100% arch with your back traveling DOWNward. This is a pretty ugly 4-step :-) Video #8 - 4-step: MUCH better acceleration & pacing here - night & day! You do a nice job of keeping yourself above your hips - no "seesaw" action here. This good release and drive-up of the upper body, staying vertical through the release makes this an impressive jump. The arch blends in slowly as you rise, like we want. See how many frames your belt goes mostly upward before it starts going mostly sideways? REALLY good!!! Things to be critical of still: direction of shoulders, use of arms for lift. |