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If you rotate your hand so your thumbs are towards your body, it will prevent your elbows from knocking the bar off as you come off the pole.

I was at a highschool meet maybe junior year or so and during warm ups and, on one of my first full approaches, I took off and somehow managed to get one leg on either side of the pole. So I found myself akwardly straddling the pole with no chance to swing so I got the idea to let go with my top han...

I think my best is 14' holding 13' 9" so that's 11".

when you say it has 0 flex.... you dont mean that the flex number is 0 do you?

I dont know about this... i find that the problem with the wind is that i feel it in the pole. It gets blown towards me or off center and i know im in trouble. Are there some sort of fancy ear plugs i could get for my pole so it doesnt get tricked into being blown around?

wait.... fx,
you say you agree with the guy who says they pull like hell and then say that there's no pull?

Do you practice with a bar? I know a bunch of vaulters who have a mental thing with a bar - can't turn or get stuck staring at it.

The key for doing it with two hands is to get the elbow of your bottom hand inside the pole. It should do this pretty automatically with a bend but if youre doing some sort of 3 step or so swing up with two hands on the pole, if your elbow goes on the outside of the pole, when you go to swing up, th...