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whats everyones opinion on holding down (maybe about a foot from the top) on a pole that could be 3-5 pounds lower than the vaulters weight, just as a transition to start working onto longer poles. Often, and I know in my case, i'll move up length when im vaulting on poles 20lbs over my weight. Ill ...

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How many warm up vaults/run throughs does everyone take at meets?

hmm where to start... i started off practice pretty well last night. I was on my big pole, I was getting my steps down and everything was great, for about three jumps. After this I began to feel like i was working too hard to come up with my usual speed, could be that i was a little sick, could be t...

Practice today: 4x50m @100% 4x100m @95% 6x50 abs Felt like a pretty good speed workout. I have vault practice tomorrow and im pretty excited for it. I was explained all the details about how to use my mid mark and im looking forward to seeing what part of my run needs work. I have a pretty good unde...

thank you for the input. Ive been trying to narrow up my hand grip slowly to try and fix the blocking problem. As for bubkas on the high bar, I did them on a regular basis funtil it got cold out and i dont have any bars inside so ive only done them at a few practices this winter. ill do them much mo...

Well long story short, our coaches bailed on us today. They got frustrated because there was a misunderstanding and they told us to go home. Me and one other teammate decided to do a couple circuits through one of our halllways in school (track is covered in snow). It was about 50 to 75m long and we...

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footage from fridays meet. thoughts?

So I had another meet tonight. I needed to clear a height or the season would be over til nationals. I ended up clearing 13 6 On the 14' 160. I was a little bummed when I got there cause I found out two meets were going on and we were going second. I was halfway through warm ups at this point. I end...

NJ varsity classic in the New York Armory practice today was 6 50m sprints @ 100% 10 min cool down 6 min abs I really need to build some run way speed and get my take off out to continue to make improvements. Ive been getting better in these areas, but still feel like there is much more room to impr...

Its been a few days since my last post, and a lot has happened since. to start, vault practice on sunday was short, but went well. It was the first practice that I didnt jump on anything smaller than the 14' 160 from a full run (granted that i only took about 5 7L jumps). I was feeling pretty good a...