Hi
Volteur - You have done a pretty good job of chewing agapit, pvstudent and myself up - at least in your own mind - so I believe that it would be a worthwhile exercise for you to put up your own manifesto on this site, Then we would know exactly what you believe to be true about the event at this point in time. Tim and Roman have both done that and I believe that BTB2 could be regarded as my manifesto.
It would also be helpful to know the extent of your coaching experience so that we can judge the value of what you have to say. After all it is easy to produce words - not so easy to help others produce performances. I accept that my own achievements have been limited to coaching juniors but I will interested to see how long it takes you as a coach to match the performances of the young athletes listed in BTB2 - there I go again -sorry about that - just kidding, not sorry at all.
However I would expect that you should get to guru status quite quickly - certainly much more quickly than I ever would have done, although you may find that coaching is not quite as easy as you seem to imagine it to to be. As I point out in BTB2 coaching is not so much about knowing as it is about doing. Whatever my limitations -and my wife tells me they are many and varied -i have been doing the business of coaching for fifty years now and I do not appreciate being insulted by someone whose name I do not even know and whose achievements as a coach I know even less about.
If you are British I suggest that you devote your time to doing something about the lamentable state of vaulting in that country - in relation to its potential - instead of wasting your time in a futile attempt to demonstrate how clever you are on pvp. Have I patronised you enough now or would you like more??
PS.Before you respond I think you should start preparing YOUR manifesto.
PPS. I dont give a stuff whether you get BTB2 or not.
Its what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden