Yeah, the animations need work, but the reason I did it that way was so it matched the bounding box. It's a lot easer to hit people while using build 15.
Here's how the jumping player model fit in the bounding box in build 14:
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And here's how it fits in 15:
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Pardon the poor ASCII art.