Vertical jump directly impacts your game by allowing you to rebound, defend and score more effectively. If you can jump higher by even one inch, you’ll be able to make plays that you could never make before.
While there are a lot of jump programs on the market, most of them aren’t specifically designed for the demands of basketball. If you’re going to put the time and effort into training, you should make it as basketball-specific as possible.
When I was in high school, I tried almost every jump program on the market. While most of them helped increase my two-foot vertical, I still wasn’t able to dunk off of one foot. Everything made sense when I looked at all the training exercises they prescribed.
Every jump program had me doing two-foot, vertical jumps. While the demands of basketball requires players to jump in a variety of ways, the popular programs out on the market didn’t include any single-leg, lateral or rotation jumps.
If you want to jump higher on the court, analyze your game and see how you’re currently jumping to score and rebound. You’ll see that you rarely have the luxury of standing in one place and jumping straight up.
Keep reading to get ideas of ways to jump higher and finish stronger on the court.
Want To Jump HIGHER on the court? Make sure to jump in 3D!
Missed shots rarely bounce off the rim right into your hands. The great rebounders go up and grab them. This means jumping forward, backwards and sideways.
A basketball-specific jump program should include exercises that can be tweaked to include all three planes of motion: sagittal, frontal and transverse.
The 3 Box Depth Jump Matrix includes forward jumps (sagittal plane), Lateral jumps (frontal plane) and rotation jumps (transverse plane) so you’re prepared to jump higher on the court.
Here’s a video of professional basketball player, Ira Brown, showing off his hops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNk0IfWSP0M
Here are some tips to help you jump higher using the 3 BOX DEPTH JUMP MATRIX:
– Jump as high as you can on every rep. The only way to jump higher is to jump higher.
– Land soft to take pressure off your knees and place it on your muscles.
– Maintain a relatively straight vertical line between your hip, knee and foot.
– Start with an 18 inch box and progress to a 24 inch box.
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