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When you jump, your body experiences extremely high eccentric forces
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To train this, we can do quarter squats focused on dropping into the bottom of the rep
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This is going to cause a very high neural demand, it's going to overload the eccentric
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and it's going to generate a lot of force similar to what you would see in a two-foot jump
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The reason we use such a small range of motion is because it mimics the angle of the blocked foot during a jump
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You can also use the same principles to train the hamstring in a hamstring curl by dropping the weight as fast as you can