Yah, like Nick says, it's not a conscious effort, just ever so slightly in front (maybe an inch or two, hard to tell), as it must be if one has forward momentum. I think several non-Pose people have said that it's impossible to land directly under your center of mass unless you're at a standstill. You would fall forward. That's seems correct and is what I'm going on when evaluating my own form. I look down and I see the forefoot touch just before it disappears underneath me. I also look at storefront windows, and my form looks pretty much as it does on form analysis videos. Please let's not get into another discussion about the merits of the Pose method
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Nick, let me know how the coaching goes. I like your idea of using sound to coach good landing. My nephew is huge, maybe 6'5" at 16 years old, but he's a real coach potato--mostly video/texting/watching sports--so he's not very athletic, and has poor posture because he has to stoop to talk to everyone. So I will mostly be working on foot landing and posture, which I've become convinced are the big key cues anyway, based on a sample of one and the stuff I've read.