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Thanks for the reply Kirk, I've been working on swinging my trail powerfully whilst stretching my chest up, to me the leg swing is going much better than the driving the chest up and forwards. I haven't been able to get much footage but here are jumps from last week and today(bar is at 4 metres in b...

Thanks kirk for the reply I hadn't realised it stemmed from that early in the jump, I feel like I normally have okay penetration although will lower my grip as I am probably focusing too much on getting onto the bed distracting from other aspects such as a powerful swing. When working the swing befo...

Thanks GasPasser, apologies for not replying until now, I wanted to come back with some footage but unfortunately hurt my shoulder doing javelin so wasn't able to get in any proper vault sessions for a while. I have been back at it for the last few weeks and competed yesterday jumping 4.20m for a pb...

Hi, I would appreciate some feedback on my vault as It seems like when extending the hips to come off the pole over the bar I come away from the pole knocking the bar off on the way up. Looks like I don't drop the shoulders maybe but cant really visualise how to do this. https://youtu.be/iZqtcUafVMk...

Thanks to all of you for the advice, made me realise I was thinking about it in the wrong way. I was so focused on trying to move my hand grip up first to the end of the pole then trying to make sure my standards were buried after my top hand was at the end of the pole which led to a fair amount of ...

Height: 5'8 Weight: 143lbs Length and weight rating of pole you are using now: 160lbs 13'7 How high you are gripping on that pole: 13'3 ish Where you have your standards: 24 inches Age: 17 How long you have been vaulting: first started 3 years ago but stopped and repicked it up about a year ago prop...