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Thanks for the quick reply. Could you link me to the mid-mark chart?

The video is located here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=D9e9XPsRLFY I am the vaulter with the better running form (it should be pretty obvious, but if it's not, then I have the red hair). This is the opening Frosh/Soph meet, the first of the season, and I tied my PR from last year, which was 10'. I di...

Track at my school has recently started again, and our first official practice is this Saturday. Our vaulting coach last year wasn't a vaulter, but he knew what he was talking about after several years of coaching and a few coaching meetings. Anyways, we don't have that coach anymore, and our new co...

Yeah, the one thing I noticed while watching him was how much faster he ran than everybody else and his double leg swing.
~George

Well, at Divisionals, we started at 8'6" I believe, and when I went over it, I'd been so used to practicing without the bar up, that I brought the pole over with me, landed on my feet, and cleared it! My choach said that the pole cleared the bar by a good foot. I still get crap bout that... The...

At the Nevada State Track and Field Meet earlier today at Del Sol HS, Las Vegas, Cameron Kroll from Reno set the Nevada State record for pole vault again, getting a new personal record of 17'. After clearing it on his first try (I think it was), he went for 17'5", but was not able to clear it s...

I kinda know what you mean. I've been having a habit of leaning forwards while running, and now that I'm trying a lot harder to run tall, I've made maybe one ok jump. Because I'm not standing straight upwards, when I plant, it feels as if my lower body is going to swing under me, and I can't delay i...

Yeah, I'm a first year vaulter, and notice that when I keep my grip to far apart (which I started doing to make it easier to learn how to bend correctly), that the bend in the pole is way too low, and that I knock the bar off on the way up, even if it's something I can clear easily. Then when I move...

Hi, I'm new to this website, and have constantly been reading many of the helpful topics on here over the last couple of weeks. I'm a freshman vaulter (my first year), and so far I've made about 10'3" just by sitting over it. I'm 125 on a 140 12' UCS/Spirit pole, and get a good amount of bend. ...