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yes a person can get faster, but like my coach said i can make a fast person faster but i cant make a slow person fast. there is not denying the fact that hard work brings results. but you really do have to take in natural ability. there is probably some equations someone can give you but really its...

this was a vault at 13'6 i was on a 14' 175 spirit. i am 6ft and weigh 150 lb. 7 lefts. (nd season vaulting 11th grade)
Any help would be appreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q3kwDC7u8E

That is just for when i am doing a lot of strength reps, i use a strap for safety and also i am working on making it a strap bar as well as a high bar to work on things like giants and other things that require body control , for bubkas and other swinging things i do jump up , the strap was more for...

oh and by the way kirk and altius , i finally got a high bar up

Actually from a purely engineering point it would still be a Fulcrum There are 3 types of levers, something like a Teeter totter is what they call a class one lever, the load on one side and effort of the other Fulcrum in the middle, pole vaulting on the other hand would be seen more as a class 2 le...

Oh and also i got a new PR of 13 '6 and i had the hip hight to go 14 or 14 '6 but i cant get my feet up, because i Dont invert, i get to maybee a little past horizontal and then turn over the bar, and at this point my hips are still rising but my body wasnt vertical so my feet drop over the bar

Well the main thing i see is that when i vault i collapse into the pole where good vaults are away from the pole, what are they doing different?

another question, would creating more space with my arms help with my swing?

kirk, i think i figured something out today. the weather is bad here today so no vaulting but i was in doing rope drills testing a few things. i think i am swinging late, this is partly because i am not always doing a free take off so i am behind the pole. (when it bends before im off theogroung ) o...

ok ive got another question for you kirk. ive gotten a better take off but im still not consistently inverting. the only thing left to blame is my swing, i keep my leg straight and strong through the whole swing, but for what i can tell and from what my coach says, i am swinging to early, im guessin...

and also i will always have more room to improve but i am in pretty good shape, i think what is stopping me is more in my take off and plant. i think that is giving me a bad swing for the get go

ive done a little mreo reading, i read a few things that said that if you jump after the pole is bent thenn you will be behind the pole as far as timing so that it is unbending before you get inverted, this makes a lot of sence to me , if you jump late the pole had allready started bending where if ...