90% of people are right legged. I often wonder why most high jumpers are not jumping off their stronger more coordinated leg. In my case, I am right handed in right legged. I am too short to be a high jumper. I am 5'9" tall and I'm white. When I was young, I wanted to dunk a basketball. The natural progression is to jump off your left foot and dunk with your right hand, but I am right handed and right legged and the coordination and timing is better on my right leg. I know about the apex from watching high jumpers that there's an apex you need to reach, and you need to reach it from taking off a certain length from the high bar, or in my case the rim. I tried forever to dunk going off my left leg. I realized after hours in days of trying, it wasn't going to happen. I realized the only way I was going to be able to dunk is to get HIGHER. I started by going off of my more coordinated and stronger leg. I practiced and practiced and dialed in where to take off, how far to take off from to reach a peak, so I would be able to dunk, LEFT handed. The point is I believe high jump coaches should be coaching the athletes to jump off their stronger more coordinated leg from the get-go. After all, that was only reason I could dunk the basketball because I was using my stronger more coordinated leg and getting high enough to dunk.
Thank you, Milt! And everyone involved.
90% of people are right legged. I often wonder why most high jumpers are not jumping off their stronger more coordinated leg. In my case, I am right handed in right legged. I am too short to be a high jumper. I am 5'9" tall and I'm white.
When I was young, I wanted to dunk a basketball. The natural progression is to jump off your left foot and dunk with your right hand, but I am right handed and right legged and the coordination and timing is better on my right leg. I know about the apex from watching high jumpers that there's an apex you need to reach, and you need to reach it from taking off a certain length from the high bar, or in my case the rim.
I tried forever to dunk going off my left leg. I realized after hours in days of trying, it wasn't going to happen. I realized the only way I was going to be able to dunk is to get HIGHER. I started by going off of my more coordinated and stronger leg. I practiced and practiced and dialed in where to take off, how far to take off from to reach a peak, so I would be able to dunk, LEFT handed. The point is I believe high jump coaches should be coaching the athletes to jump off their stronger more coordinated leg from the get-go. After all, that was only reason I could dunk the basketball because I was using my stronger more coordinated leg and getting high enough to dunk.