by achtungpv ยป Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:41 pm
dj wrote:man or women, you cannot reach maximum speed by anything less than 18 steps.. actually you need to have your maximum acceleration done by six steps from the takeoff.. which would mean, if your run is 18, by 12 steps and if it is 20 steps, by 14 steps...
Back in '88, I had a copy of an article by Rick Attig and way back then he was advocating 20-22 step approaches.
Something definitely got lost since then.
achtungpv... It's interesting that the year 1988 comes up... after that year i was no longer working directly with any of the top vaulters.. i did spent some time with B, Greg and a few others and with Tim in 1995 on the run from the time he was at Tennesse until 2004.
what is interesting is/was we used 20 steps. From 1983 to 1988 Tully moved back from 18, on to two walking steps + 18 and then to 20 steps.. . Look on youtube for his 18-6 1984 jump to his 19 foot jump in 87/88 at UCLA.. yes he had a tail wind at UCLA but you will see what we changed in pole carry and run. He was ready to take shots at a world record in those last couple of years.
The top vaulters and coaches of that time period all tried to "copy" what all the best was doing, were committed to run fast.. Dupe.. Dial, Olson, Bell, Starkey, in the 80's tully was the slow one...... AND everyone knew to catch up with Bubka you had to run faster than you were already running... Peter McGinnis' science told us with NO room to question... in every meeting back at that time..... with Bob Fraley, Greg Hull, all the best coaches etc.. plus every paper written SAID without question that where we were lacking as American vaulters wass 100% the RUN...
Can you imagine my frustration (being the run person) for the last 20 plus years to see the run totally ignored.. when it was/is the one thing we could do to catch up to the rest of the world.
B and Tim, Nick/Greg and Lawrence in 2000 got it very close to right.. that a huge part of why they won the medals...
Tim changed from a 53-8 "MID" with a 12-4?? Takeoff in 1995 to a 54-8 "MID" 13-8 Takeoff and a Gold Medal in 2004!!!!
Speed (stride length and stride frequency) Physics.. and with the speed you get the posture and correct impulse and technique at the takeoff.
What everyone (coaches and athlete) is showing about the run is they don't know HOW to move the run back and get the desired result and continue to be correct at the "MID" or even what correct is for their "MID". What is missing is what i teach about HOW to "naturally" accelerate to the "MID", with speed, with competition adrenaline and stay accurate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygN40lOWYQgo to this series of jumps.... and find where his "best" "MID" should have been/be...
this jumper has a chance to jump really..really high... BUT if he has a problem hitting the correct "MID" based on his speed, consistently he will have difficulties not based on "mental" issues but solely based on an incorrect "MID"..... just like Bubka had at times when he was of and just like Isi had at the WC..
dj