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Age: 18
Grade: 12
How long you have been jumping: 2 seasons
What pole you are on (length and weight rating): UCS 13'7" 150
How high you are gripping: 1 handgrip down
Approach: 5 lefts from 63'
What bar(s) you are attempting in the video: 14'6 bungee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr0U-e1f ... e=youtu.be

Anyone please??

Your steps are small and quick from the very beginning of your run, and your posture is a little forward. You need to push harder on the first few steps, and stay as tall as possible. Make sure your knees are coming all the way up to horizontal on each stride. This will hopefully help you get a better, more upright takeoff with a higher center-of-mass.
You also need to get your hands up quicker so that you can be fully extended over your head before the moment of impact. This will also help raise your COM at the plant.

Your work on the pole is quite good! You can elongate your swing by doing the things I mentioned above, which will help get you on bigger poles. Now just do it from a longer run with a bigger pole and higher grip! You are a senior so you should try to max out your pole/grip by the end of the season (carefully, make sure you are keeping the standards back and doing lots of pole runs to get used to the timing of a longer run). Go up one step/pole at a time; for each left you go back, you can either raise your hand by 3-4 inches (if you're not overbending), or go up 5 lbs in stiffness with the same grip. Try to change only one variable at a time (pole/grip/step).

Good luck,

Tom

tsorenson wrote:Your steps are small and quick from the very beginning of your run, and your posture is a little forward. You need to push harder on the first few steps, and stay as tall as possible. Make sure your knees are coming all the way up to horizontal on each stride. This will hopefully help you get a better, more upright takeoff with a higher center-of-mass.
You also need to get your hands up quicker so that you can be fully extended over your head before the moment of impact. This will also help raise your COM at the plant.

Your work on the pole is quite good! You can elongate your swing by doing the things I mentioned above, which will help get you on bigger poles. Now just do it from a longer run with a bigger pole and higher grip! You are a senior so you should try to max out your pole/grip by the end of the season (carefully, make sure you are keeping the standards back and doing lots of pole runs to get used to the timing of a longer run). Go up one step/pole at a time; for each left you go back, you can either raise your hand by 3-4 inches (if you're not overbending), or go up 5 lbs in stiffness with the same grip. Try to change only one variable at a time (pole/grip/step).

Good luck,

Tom

Thank you so much for the advice! I have always been told that when I plant, I lean back and maybe that is due to low center of mass that you mentioned. I have a time trial meet tomorrow morning and will keep on thinking TALL and UP with my torso and knees.

Here is another video that I took yesterday. The bungee is still at 14'6" but the poles are different. First video pole was a 13'7" 150, holding a handgrip down. In this video, I am using a 14' 155, with the same hand grip so I'm going to say about almost 10 inches down. Also, I ran from a 6 left approach not a 5 like the first video. It seems to me that I got my hands up higher on this jump than the first though.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVAD9PVo ... e=youtu.be

Also, here's a video with the bungee at 10'6" using a 14' 150 with the 6 left approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9SyrRh3 ... e=youtu.be

Thank you
- Andy