MONDAY, JUNE 27TH, 2011
Baseball Class 9:00am
Open Class 6:00pm
NOTE: Wednesday's open class will be held in the morning and there will be no class Thursday, Friday or Saturday this week.
Cameron comes in off a long couple weeks of baseball and PR's with a 440 lb. deadlift. 
Then the Foothill Volleyball girls tested their jumping abilities and did not disappoint. They performed 3 different jump variations the first one was a seated jump that demonstrates raw hip drive and eliminates any elastic rebound that they might have from the initial dip in a regular jump attempt. In each of the 3 different variations of jumps we did there are a number of consistencies to be noticed. The first is the initial backward arm swing. This primes the upper body to lead the rest of the body into the jump. Without this arm swing a maximum jump for height or distance is not attainable. Katie and Sara do a wonderful job demonstrating this below. The backward arm swing is then followed by an upward forward thrust of the arms, which is shown pretty well in all of the pictures below. It is because of this initial arm motion that we begin to realize the importance of shoulder flexibility when it comes to jumping and running. Look at the fastest runners and best jumpers in the world. They have some of the most flexible shoulders out of any athlete. Furthermore, the ability when landing a jump for height to drive the knees as high as possible is paramount. I may jump just as high or higher than another athlete but if they have the hip flexibility to pull their knees higher they will out-jump me. Again, all of the pictures below show the girls tucking thier knees as high into their shoulders as possible. Finally I want to point out the importance of weight distribution on the landing. These girls were required to stand up on top of the box for the jump to count. The most drastic example of what I'm talking about is in CJ's last picture below. If she doesn't land how she does she would not have stuck the landing. Sara also demonstrates this to a great extent with her bottom left picture.
Here is Katie doing the seated jump...
Then the ladies went to a standing jump that did allow them to use the elastic rebound and hopefully reach new heights. Below we have Christine and CJ performing their standing jumps...
And finally there was the approach jump where they were permitted to take three steps (left, right, left) just as in volleyball. Here an athlete should theoretically be able to reach thier maxiumum height out of the three jumps performed given the constraints of each individual jump. Sara does a great job of demonstrating the approach jump...
Coach Justin
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