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My season ended this year I ended up with 10-3 as my pr with the 11 foot sky pole that i was blowing thru with...i found ways to tweak to where i didnt blow through hear are some videos i got the school rrecord by 6 inches.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HisJGe_1WEw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7zQnuO3lBQ


i was close all year on 10-6

You could be under on the pole, if you look at your left arm in the first film you can see it's right in your face.

i planted under on purpose. see if i planted right and kept my left arm out i blew thru and we had no other poles so i had to make due....next year i will be able to have a better plant becuz i can get on a new pole

tylerd1994 wrote:i planted under on purpose. see if i planted right and kept my left arm out i blew thru and we had no other poles so i had to make due....next year i will be able to have a better plant becuz i can get on a new pole

You shouldn't be trying to plant under... If your pole is too soft, you should have moved in a left, which probably would have helped.

Here are the things you should work on:
-Don't "pump" the pole on your approach, you do get nice high knees, but pumping the pole isn't good
-See if your coach can get you on a high bar, your swing could definitely be improved (you just tuck in your legs to try and rotate to vertical faster, which won't get you much higher, focus on a long and powerful swing to vertical)
-Also, how much stiff pole vaulting have you done? Doing a lot of 1,2, and 3 steps on a pole that doesn't bend is the key to getting high heights!

10-3 for eighth grade is still good though! Nice job!

thanks for the advise,, i just realized that planting under doesnt make me not bend as much. I had problems with that pole all year and i tried to get out as much as i could out of it. i had no other pole to use. I just went to the middle school state meet for ohio and everyone there was like he needs a bigger pole he needs a bigger pole and i didnt have anything else. So a guy came up and gave me a pole he had a 12 ft 125 my other pole was an 11ft 120. So i got three warmups and vaulted on it and got 10-6