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Just out of curiousity, has anyone donated anything yet? I'm an emerging vaulter too, and pretty much the advice I've gotten is "jump higher", so it'd be encouraging to hear if you have any success. What this sport really needs is some commercialization. There's a few big meets where there...

Planting with your arms slightly in front of you? Keeping your left arm straight throughout the row? To me, it sounds like you're doing things right! In fact, this year I've been working hard on planting slightly in front of my head (with my right arm just in front of my forehead). In fact, I think ...

I've thought about this before... consider this excerpt on how the pole vault works from http://www.howstuffworks.com : Let's say our pole vaulter can run as fast as anyone in the world. Right now, the world record for running 100 m is just under 10 seconds. That gives a velocity of 10 m/s. We also ...

Shooting free throws and serving tennis balls seems irrelevant to vaulting. Plus, why do you need to do physical things for a mental workout? If you're trying to improve your concentration, then I would advocate visualizing yourself doing the things you are working on in the vault, go through entire...

Okay, this is how I would do it: If you are going from 8 lefts now and blowing through, I would take one day of practice seeing how short of a run you have to go from so you don't blow through. Just shorten by one left at a time until you are able to do a "real" vault. Once you've figured out how sh...

Alright, I wanted to hear from BigMast before posting again... dude, I say more power to you! It's obvious that you're going to try no matter what, so don't get discouraged. Just don't turn upside down when you try it! Hopefully you won't NEED extra pits, but they're just a precaution. I have done t...

I agree that the transition isn't ideal, but I empathize with schools and athletes who cannot afford a complete series of poles. Conventional wisdom would say go up by 5lb increments up to 15 lbs over your weight on the same length pole before going up 6 inches in length... the problem is that to ac...

If you're comfortable getting inverted on grass or sand, then by all means try it, but personally I would not have the guts to swing my leg over my head on grass. So yes, I'd do a mini-swing until you're at the pit, resulting in something short of total inversion. Just keep in mind that the goal isn...

It would be nice to see your jump so we could see if you are doing everything possible to ensure you are going up rather than through the 14' pole (faster swing? total inversion?). However, I'm a huge advocate of sacking up and getting on huge poles just to see if you can!!! The first time I tried g...

It helps to really understand where the turn comes from. I've seen a lot of coaches try to get their athletes to turn by "turning the right foot in", the idea being that the rest of the body should follow. However, to me, the turn comes from the motion of your hands/arms as you continue the row. Aft...

YEAH! Go Erin!!!

Well, I'll put up my opinion on here since I went there 4 years... I'll start with the cons: Pretty much what I tell everyone is DON'T go there if you are going to college primarily for the purpose of being an athlete. Especially not while *Decided not to name names* is the head coach, I don't reall...