The vertical jump is the single most important athletic quality I can have in beach volleyball. 1️⃣Why? Everything flows from it. A higher jump changes everything - your attacking angles, your block, your serve. It’s the highest leverage quality that elevates every other part of your game.# 2️⃣What I focus on: For any four-step approach, I break it down like this: 🦶 Timing step 🦶 Support step 🦶 Plant foot 🦶 Block foot Every piece matters. I focus on keeping forward shin angles throughout the entire approach until I brake with my plant and block. I think about a strong penultimate, exploding off my support leg into my plant foot, leading with my knee, loading deep into that plant leg, and aggressively pushing backwards on my block foot to transfer horizontal velocity into vertical velocity. 3️⃣Off the court, I’m working on: → Backswing mobility → Getting my squat (upright torso) and hang clean numbers up → Keeping my knees healthy and managing load 4️⃣How I structure a jump sess...