How the Jump Manual Got Started

Hi. My name is Jacob Hiller. I’m with Free Vertical Jump Training dot com, also known as the Jump Manual dot com. I’m here just to explain a little bit about the program and how it got started. In high school, I loved jumping. I wanted to be able to dunk from the free-throw line. I wanted to be able to put my elbow on the rim. I wanted, I wanted to be able to fly, pretty much. But I was an average jumper, average talent—I wasn’t the worst, wasn’t the best jumper. And I was a decent basketball player. What I ended up doing, is every six months, I’d try to do, , that vertical jump program. I tried Air Alert. I tried Air Alert Two. I tried the Jumpsoles, the Strength Boots. I had the bands, the elastic bands. I also had, I did the plyometric training for track and everything. In college I did the same thing. I played basketball in college, and I also ran track and did long and triple jump, and they gave me these same exercises. The only problem was, I was putting in hours and hours of training each week, running stairs, doing the boots, really just killing myself to try and get my vertical up. I was frustrated because I was getting results, I just wasn’t getting the results I wanted. I was wondering why not, because I was working harder than anyone else I knew, and I spent all the money I possibly could on being able to jump high. It was during a two-year service trip that I was away from the game, away from jumping, away from training, that it dawned on me what was wrong with my training. I figured out why all my training didn’t get me jumping as high as I wanted; and as soon as I got back home from my service trip, I did three months of very hard training, trying all the techniques that I knew would work. Because I’d had a lot of time to think about it. And about, I started noticing a difference, but one day I was in the gym just after we had played around, I was pretty fresh, pretty warm, and I realized that I could do anything I wanted when I dunked. I could three-sixty. I could come from outside of the paint. I could dunk this far away from the free throw. I never got the free throw line, but, , I’m six foot three, and, , there are people who can jump higher than me; but I’ve never seen results like that before. And now I understand what had happened. And I’m gonna explain to you a little bit about how the program works. You see, what I was doing, and what you may be doing, is you might be training your butt off, but you might be training your jumping endurance. For instance, if you’re training yourself at a jumping level, say, this high, and most of your training occurs at this level, you’re basically training yourself to jump at this level a certain amount of times, or in other words, you’re training your jumping endurance. Now what you need in order to jump higher than anyone else or to reach your physical jumping potential is you need to have explosion. And explosion is created in two ways: the combination of strength and quickness. You can have one but not the other, and the formula will not work. But strength plus quickness equals explosion. So if you train your legs to react quickly and to move their force quickly, and you have a lot of strength, then you have explosion. For instance, a bodybuilder may have a lot of strength, he may be able to, , squat a thousand pounds. But they have to do it slowly, , rise up and down. That’s not gonna create explosion. That’s not gonna create a vertical jump. So what our program does, is it shows you what training exercise actually trains your explosion and not your jumping endurance. I really hope you understand that, because I spent years getting mediocre results, and if I would have been doing these same drills for years, I don’t know what level I’d be at. And now I’m at a level where, I go to a gym when I play basketball, and people aren’t necessarily impressed by my skills or by my shot, which, is decent—it’s not as good as I’d like it to be, but every time I play basketball, people always ask me, “Hey, how did you learn to jump like that?” So this project, this video, this website is all about helping people who want to jump higher and want to understand how to do it and don’t want to just throw some money at some program that is claiming, , to be able to help you jump higher than you’ve ever believed possible. You want to understand how you can do it, so you can make an educated decision. And so the program is free for now. I encourage you to use it, , tell people about it if you can. And I hope you enjoy it. I’m going to tell you a little bit more about the program now. So, I hope you remember: strength and quickness. That’s what’s gonna make you explode. Again, if you were, let’s say you were a sprinter, and you ran the hundred meter dash, would you train sprinting by running the mile or by running two miles? No, because that would train your endurance. It’s a completely different type of muscle, and that’s not the muscle you want to be training. And as long as you continue to train your jumping endurance, you are not gonna maximize your jumping potential. And that’s what you need to do. So all of the exercises we recommend are what we call “explosion exercises.” They’re all exercises that are gonna teach you to push you’re your potential more and more. For instance, if this is how high you can jump now—let’s say it’s eighteen inches, and if your training teaches you to jump a little higher each time, then you’re gonna be increasing that level almost each workout. Each week, you’re gonna see slight increases, and that’s gonna build up until a point where you’re gonna be, , warmed up, or, you’ll just have played a game, and you’ll realize now you can jump higher than you ever have been able to before. So once again, if you can jump this high and you’re training here, it’s not gonna get you anywhere. It’s gonna get you endurance, which is great, which is, , it’s a good thing. But it’s not what you’re looking for, and that’s not why you’re here. So I know I’ve been real redundant about this, about strength plus endurance equals explosion, about not training your endurance about training the explosion that your muscles have—that’s two different types of muscles. And so the way the program works is, we have broken down the skill levels, the skill sets you need to jump higher into ten very specific categories. Some of them, you may have excellent already. For instance, body composition is one of them. If you’re overweight, that extra weight is only gonna drag you down; so that’s one of the categories. There are ten different categories that are gonna help you jump higher, and if you’re able to maximize each one, you’ll be able to reach what we call your “physical explosion capability.” Your legs can only create so much explosion, so there is a limit to how high you can jump; but I’ll guarantee you none of you are reaching that potential right now. I’m not even reaching that potential right now. So I encourage you to go to the contact us page, fill out your name, put your number in there. I’d love to hear your feedback; and I hope this provides you a financially very affordable way to get the results you’re looking for. Thank you.