Help me solve this frontside heavy issue

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Jan 6, 2009
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She has a drive issue, she is quad dominant and the glutes are not engaged enough. One symptom, she drives up too much and not out enough. If you slow the video down you can see that as she finishes her push-off her hips are going up, not out. Essentially she should feel like her push off is from the bottom up, not from the top down. At the start of her motion she sinks nicely into her legs, both knees are flexed, but as she drops the ball out of her glove she straightens the back leg/knee and leans in too much, this is the start of the top down, quad dominant leap. If she can move into her push off from the legs/knees flexed position it should keep her more upright and promote a better body angle at launch, which should carryover to a better landing position. A simple cue would be to keep the back leg knee flexed, as she moves into launch.
Yes front chain dominate vs back chain dominate. There’s a difference between jumping into the air and driving.
 

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