Or maybe it's still alive and well, but it's run its course on PVP, and there's not much more to add this year?
Are college coaches more accepting of this technique for female vaulters today ... compared to a few years ago?
Saying theres not much to be added would be once a technique is compleately disected and there is no more to learn about it. People believe Petrov method is best but they are still discussing it every day. And it may very well still and continue to be the best. But that is kind of like the thinking back in early 1900s when they tried to pass a law saying there could be no more patents because everything that could be invented had been invented.
As far as college coaches go, I got my first taste this weekend. My coach loves it because I run twice as fast and was getting on huge poles from short run. There was definetly a lot of talk and I had a few athletes ask me why I was pushing and if that was just the way I learned, they were suprised to find out I just started practicing it that week. I also heard coaches talking about it and they all seemed pretty open minded and were trying to discuss advantages they could see from their stand point. Not sure if they gonna try to convert their vaulters right away or anything to that extream.
ok lets go through a few key notes here
-Signifigent increase in speed is notable
-Plant is simplified
IMO-Helps jump at take off, and makes it easier to take of 'On'.
-Once moderate speed is added, bottom hand or some force must be used to slide tip into box
-Missing the box is just bad, it will not slide in because of angle
-No matter how much weight you add to the tip, it will not help it fall into the box, just physics 101
-Ive also added you have to start to raise right hand before your last step thanks to pathagory therom. If arm is kept low then tip hits back of box when you are a few feet away. So you just have to adjust the timing issue.
But on that note I jumped at my first meet after two real practices at pole pushing.
A) I was .01 off of my pr
B) I went up to my largest competition pole and was holding down because I would crush it other wise
C) All this was from 7 instead of 8, Used same pole from 6 in warm up but wanted practice from longer run
D) Was holding about 9 inches lower this time than previous PR mark. Therefor 9 more inches of push off.
E) Jumped 13'7 with a 12'6 hand grip, and came very close to a new PR at 14'2
Other notable mention to advantage I gained was no issue with the bad cross wind blowing my pole as I tried to lower it
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