Hey Caleb! I'd like to start by saying I've been a fan of yours for 6-ish years now, even though I stopped practicing parkour around 2016. I know opinions are like assholes and everyone has them, but I'd like to offer my perspective on this training video as a B.S. in Kinesiology. I can understand your reasoning for starting your trap bar jumps with elevated heels, but I believe you'd achieve greater peak velocity when starting from a more stable base (full foot pressure). When considering the volume and variety of bilateral and unilateral calf and foot work that you do in addition to your main lifts, I think the raised heel in the trap bar jumps is not worth the performance decrease, not to mention potential injury risk of loading an explosive movement onto an unstable base. I could easily be wrong, and there could be no performance difference between raised heels and full foot contact, but I'd be surprised. This is just my 2 cents, and I apologize if my opinion is unwelcome here. I think it's very cool that you're so meticulous with velocity-based training. I wish you nothing but the best! Thanks!
Such good ankle work in this! Will try it out!
What devices are you using to measure jump height, velocity and ground contact time?
Agree! Would like to know!
Hey Caleb! I'd like to start by saying I've been a fan of yours for 6-ish years now, even though I stopped practicing parkour around 2016. I know opinions are like assholes and everyone has them, but I'd like to offer my perspective on this training video as a B.S. in Kinesiology. I can understand your reasoning for starting your trap bar jumps with elevated heels, but I believe you'd achieve greater peak velocity when starting from a more stable base (full foot pressure). When considering the volume and variety of bilateral and unilateral calf and foot work that you do in addition to your main lifts, I think the raised heel in the trap bar jumps is not worth the performance decrease, not to mention potential injury risk of loading an explosive movement onto an unstable base. I could easily be wrong, and there could be no performance difference between raised heels and full foot contact, but I'd be surprised. This is just my 2 cents, and I apologize if my opinion is unwelcome here. I think it's very cool that you're so meticulous with velocity-based training. I wish you nothing but the best! Thanks!