I respectfully have to disagree with your points unless a jumper is
spending half their workout doing scissors jumps. I'm talking about
doing maybe 5 or so scissors at the beginning of whatever jumping
workout we might be doing, which don't think is enough to promote bad
habits such as not getting hips up or causing slow rotation. If that
were the case I wouldn't want my jumpers playing basketball since
doing layups would cause a lot more problems.

Although, I would say that at a certain skill level it's not as
important a drill to do since I don't have to worry as much about them
jumping up as I did when they were first learning. I still like it at
the beginning of certain jump workouts (not all) for the jumpers to
get the feel of jumping straight up. Even experience jumpers tend to
lean in at take off at times, since they ultimately need to get into
the pit.

Monty Forthun

--- In highjump@yahoogroups.com, "weiareinboud" <atalanta@...> wrote:
>
> The verticality is a good thing but there are drawbacks too. Some
technical aspects that
> are good for scissor jumping are faults in the flop. So some jumpers
who often do the
> scissors grow into faults that are difficult to get out. Mostly:
take-off with a non-stretched
> hip (leading to too few rotation over the bar), stretched swing leg
(leading to slow
> rotations, too slow, except for those jumping 2.30 or so). Maybe a
third thing should be
> mentioned: doing the scissors you fixate the bar with your eyes,
doing the flop I think it is
> better to just make that parabola and do not control the bar.
> From a certain age I personally think scissor jumping isn't a good
thing anymore. That
> certain age maybe is around 15, when they are jumping high enough to
not become a
> dive-into-the-pit-jumper. The reverse of course isn't true: there
are some very good flop
> technicians who can use scissors in their training or warming-up
without learning bad
> habits. Tia Hellbaut to mention someone.
>
> By the way, I happened to be a very bad straddler and so used to do
competition jumps
> with scissors. Only in my second track career I really learned to
flop, still not perfect...
>
> Weia (W57)
>
>
> > I personally like to use the scissors jump as a warmup (scissors,
> > 3-step, 5-step, then full), but more importantly it's a good drill to
> > get the jumpers thinking only about jumping vertically. Once you add
> > the layout to clear a bar they think more about "getting into the pit"
> > than jumping up (at least with inexperienced jumpers). I also like to
> > do rim or net touches or if the jumper is capable volleyball dunks to
> > change up the jumping workouts, do something fun, yet concentrate on
> > vertical jumping.
> >
> > Monty Forthun
> >
> > --- In highjump@yahoogroups.com, "bhscoach3" <bhscoach3@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all. Just a quick question. What is the purpose of scissor
jumps in
> > > practice and what does it accomplish? thanks
> > >
> >
>