When i'm out of season, and have a lot of free time with out any pole vaulting equipment, I made a make-shift pole from some electric equipment, its a pole probably used for working with telephone wires. It feels kinda like a pole. Its about 6 feet long, and can extend to be 11 feet long when unscrewed to its full length.
Anyway, i would bring it to a neighbor hood track with me (early in the morining of coarse) and after my running work outs i would practice holding the pole, running with the pole, shifting on the right step, work on the pull and turn. I also convinced my parents to put up a chin up bar in my room in my closet
i can't begin to say how much that has allowed me to support my body weight. If you look around on this site there are a couple of posts about this topic, if you go to these sites
they are excellent at explaining what you can do:
http://www.advantageathletics.com/polevault.html
and
http://pvei.com/vault/
good luck with your training!
