I hold the PVC pipe level with the box and directly in front of it, repeating the same "jump over the pipe" command I've been using the entire time. Once that happens, I explicitly state: "You're jumping high enough to land on the box." We repeat the PVC jump a few more times with the same reinforcing language. We're aiming to clear the pipe with several inches to spare. We build the muscle memory there, having them clear the PVC pipe about 50 times, using a manageable rep scheme. I bring it up a few inches at a time until we're at box jump height (18" to 20". I'll often have hesitant jumpers hop over a PVC pipe, held a few inches off the floor.
Then it was a matter of making myself depart the ground.īTW - I now have that tree stump propped on a first set of 2x4s, and I'm ready to add a crossing set, for a total of 3-3.5" rise vs. That greased the groove for the initiation of the jump. I practiced dipping and driving up without actually departing the ground at first, too, while facing the log (visualization before actually completing the move). I had a LOT of staggered jumps at first - right foot followed in very quick succession by left foot. I then willed myself into jumping onto it. That half-log was 10" high on one end and 12" on the other - so not entirely perfect but a challenging first height. Cut in half vertically, I had a flat bottom with a quonset hut sort of shape, capped with some very rough bark on a somewhat rounded top - good traction.
I dragged in a half tree stump we had salvaged from when my brother had cleared some massive willows. Then it became a matter of increasing the height. So jumping without the rope removes that prop in my mind, and now I'm jumping both feet without a rope. The lack of a real rope is important, I think - a rope changes things in my head. In addition to the no height jumps, you might have her do tuck jumps (or not even tuck, but jumping rope with an imaginary rope). So, with my husband's help, I started with a "no height" box - just learning to jump with both feet at the same time. What that told me was that I needed to grease that groove from the very beginning. I swear, that is what it felt like: the messaging just faded out/disappeared shortly below my knees somewhere. I knew in my head what needed to happen, but I couldn't get the message to my lower legs and feet. I have never in my life (just turned 56 two days ago) needed to jump with both feet simultaneously. In the past 3 months, I have gotten myself able to do do box jumps. I am not a trainer, nor have I played one on TV, but.
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