potential 14 6 jumps

[LHSVaulterJJR]

im mushing through the pole on these jumps wich i think is one of the major problems with my shoot out. but otherwise ide love for your guys to critique me top to bottom.

pole 13'6 135 pacer fx
grip 12' 10
bungee is at 12


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM3ZQg3N ... re=related

[powerplant42]

Hope you mean your vault by that last statement... jk...

You don't have a free take-off by a longshot. It's tough to tell what else from that angle, but it also looked like your plant wasn't all the up.

[LHSVaulterJJR]

lol anyone else?

[OH-IOvaulter]

Just gonna start by saying I'm not trying to be harsh , I just want to respond to your request for a critique from top to bottom, hopefully it will help and you'll improve and vault that much higher.
A) Your plant looks pretty decent, both arms up, semi-decent drive leg, but you are not jumping up and into the pole. You definitely are not blowing through that pole. That pacer can store and return a lot more energy than you are putting into it as of the video you posted. The stronger and higher the plant: the longer the pole will stay bent. This is what you need to work on as well as keeping your plant but jumping up and into the pole and also not breaking in your left arm so soon.
B) When the pole stays bent longer you will have more time to swing all the way through the pole and not just to the point where your feet are pointing at the bungee/cross bar. Your first and third jumps were the best. But what I would work on would be to focus on your plant and swinging all the way to the top hand that way you can elevate your hips with a pull turn instead of pushing them over the bar.
C) At then end of the swing and at the initiation of the pull turn, elevating one's hips through a "bubka" essentially gives you an extra foot of height. By using the pole as a fulcrum of sorts, elevating the hips and shoving the shoulders vertically down and horizontally toward the pit, will put you completely inverted and perpendicular to the ground (the perfect position for a proper pull/turn.
D) Try doing some fly/away work and that should allow you to be more consistent on top of the pole.

Anyways hope I wasn't too brash, best of luck, vault high, vault safe.

[vault3rb0y]

Awesome post above me.

I would just say that you hit great positions, but you are overgripping that pole. Move your grip down 3 inches and you will get at least 6" MORE pop on top, at least 3" net hieght. You would be very suprised how high you can jump holding lower when you do things right, and you are doing a lot of things right for your hieghts. My highest jumps came on holding 14'3" and if i raised it to 14'9" it slows down the vault and my top end is 8-10" lower than when i hold at 14'3". It doesnt mean you are "taking a step down", you are just finding the optimal place to hold to vault highest on each pole you use. Lowering your grip will also help you with working on a free take off. Keep those hands high over your head!