Contents
Vertical jump: the three phases
Hands on hips from start to finish, legs straight in the air. The app measures the height from the video.
- What it measures
- Power
- Effort
- Short or sub-maximal
- Duration
- about 10 min for a group
- Equipment
- phone with a jump app
Set-up
A phone with a validated jump app (slow-motion video) and a flat floor.
How to run it
Stand upright, hands on hips. Dip quickly and jump straight up as high as possible, legs straight in the air, landing on the same spot. Three jumps with rest in between. Always the same app and the same hands-on-hips rule.
What to record
The best height in cm given by the app.
By age
- Under 10 Playful challenge
- 10 to 12 Offered
- 13 to 15 Offered
- 16 and over Offered
Everywhere: no ranking of children, no public results, no selection from results. Under 16: parental consent and the child's own agreement. A health check before any maximal test, and stop if you feel unwell.
Reading the result
- Compare the athlete with themselves: same protocol, same surface, same measuring method. Paak publishes no age norms.
- No published retest figure: a small change may simply be day-to-day variation.
On the test day
On the test day this test comes in position 3 of 13: short tests first, maximal efforts last, after about 5 minutes of rest (athletic test manual of the Deutscher Fechter-Bund and IAT Leipzig, 2023).
Dashed border: maximal effort. Gold: this test.
Before: Standing long jump After: Sprint (10, 20 or 30 m) The field tests guide
Sources
- Balsalobre-Fernández et al. 2015, My Jump vs force plate
- Meta-analysis of 21 studies (flight-time apps)