Kung Fu Double Tuck Jump

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Sifu Mallon with the Clearwater Kung Fu Center. This is Kung Fu for health. We're going to be focusing on a jumping exercise. This is called double tuck jump. This is a very beneficial exercise, to go ahead and develop explosive power in your legs and the ability to jump high. To start with, I'll demonstrate it kind of slow. I'm going to begin with my feet together, my hands down by the side, into fists. I'll take my single step forward, as I do this, I'm going to drop my center of gravity and swing my arms back. I'm going to throw both of my arms forward and I'm going to lift my right knee and then it's going to follow up with my left knee. I'm, basically, going to bring both knees up in front of my body, as this happens, I'm going to bring both of my hands around the knees to grasp, holding myself into a ball and then land softly onto the floor. Again. One more time from the side so you can see. You'll notice as I'm landing, I'm landing with my body shock absorbers. I'm landing toes, ball, heel, bend the knees, so that I land softly. If I don't land like this, as you step, if I land flat footed, I take all the shock through my whole body. This is not very good for your joints, so you want to land very softly. This is called double tuck jump, Kung Fu for health."