Pole vaulting 5 lefts brentwood 6 lefts reno

[kcvault]

The first video is on a 15ft 190 from 5 lefts holding between 14-2 and 14-4 the first jump is a warm up jump. The second is 15ft, the third and forth are 15-6 the 5th, 6th and 7th are 16ft and the next three are 16-3.

The second video is at Reno running from 6 lefts. The first jump is on a 16ft 180 holding 14-4, the rest on on a 16ft 190 from 6 lefts holding between 14-4 and 14-6. The first to jumps are 15-6 the third jump is 16-3 and the last is 16-9. A lot of the jumps are a little sloppy on both videos but I think the jump at 16-3 is one of the best technical jumps I have had in a long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StGYTfJBX0c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sphaXKNijIQ

--Kasey

[KirkB]

... the third jump is 16-3 and the last is 16-9. ... I think the jump at 16-3 is one of the best technical jumps I have had in a long time.

KC, focusing only on your 16-3 clearance, I think that's a mighty fine jump ... a long ways away from your tuck-shoot of yester-year!

Your JUMP was very good! It looks like you really got a lot of good lift off that!

You swung the trail leg thru quite good!

Looking at your flat-back ... it looks like your hips do have a slight pause before they continue to move up. Either that, or they're just too low too late. One or the other.

I would focus on why the hips didn't move upwards earlier, then fix that. I suspect that it might be becuz you paused slightly before you swung ... or becuz you didn't downswing fast enough. One or the other ... or both. You'll figure it out. You're very smart to not try to rush your grip or flex too much while you've been working on this "new" technique (for you).

You're gearing up for some good jumps once you get back to a full run and raise your grip on a heavier pole!

Kirk

[vault3rb0y]

I've watched your video about 10 times looking for the reason for the hip pause. Kinda hard to tell on youtube and you might not agree but heres what i came up with...


You swing nice and long and although their is a slight head-throw, it isn't accompanied by the "seat" usually taken when vaulters do so. So i ruled that out.

However, I noticed that once your trail leg passes the chord, rather than continuing to bring your hips AROUND your top hand axis, it moves your hips directly upward. In other words, you have quite a sharp angle at your hips. Your legs stay straight, but with a folding like you do at the hips, it prevents your hips from moving out and around your top hand with little flexion. So essentially your axis isn't quite as long as it could be during the top half of your inversion. I'm sure you can feel the difference on a high bar when your hips literally move up and around the bar like a free-hip circle as opposed to moving straight to the bar. Your shoulders drop into place more easily and you have no more than a ~90 degree angle at your hip. When you literally "hit" this pocket with little flexion, your hips have a much easier time moving up the pole.

Practice your rings/highbar/stationary rings while trying to swing your hips freely around your hips before extending. Its actually easier in the vault, because the pole provides resistance to slow down your hands while your hips continue to accelerate underneath them. Normally this would be getting "sucked under" but if you finish your take off as well as you do, and instead add acceleration to the natural swing on the pole, it's easy to swing your hips up and around the pole- unless you practice with reps too much on a fixed axis like rings and high bar. To simulate this action for a couple reps, you can take a step and jump into the high bar so that your hands feel resistance like they do in the vault.


You've got a lot of things figured out, so I'm assuming this is not all new to you. But it's just what i see, and i hope it helps! Have fun jumping high this year!

Jason

[kcvault]

Now that you guys mention it I think my timing is just a little bit off. I think it is the result of three things the first is what 3po said, the second is I am not jumping up very well at take off, and the last because the pole is so small i'm not moving as fast as I would be on a bigger pole. I think if I could jump up and get my step a little bit further out it will be much less of a problem. Though That is what I always tend to think about my jumps and I have not yet been very sussesful at fixing it. Thanks for the advice.

--Kasey

[Barto]

I understand that you have been jumping from a very short approach but...

I don't believe the mis-timing of your jump is a technical flaw. You have pole grip/stiffness issues.

It may be blasphemy to say so in this age, but you need to bend the pole more.

Either take a softer pole with the same grip (yes, I know you will feel as if you are blowing through - swing faster!) or raise your grip 2"-3" inches on the same pole. As tall as you are, it is very difficult to get around on the swing if you do not take the handle of the pole past horizontal. Your technique is better than 5.40. You just need to refine your jump timing with a more appropriate pole/grip combination.

[starkey480]

Thank you Barto!! thats what i told Casey at Reno!! haha but he definately need a bigger pole though which he didnt have. Aparently its hard to carry alot of poles on a Geo

[kcvault]

Here is what I am wondering on my 16'3 jump the top of the pole bends to 90 degrees relative to the runway. However where I am holding the pole only appears to bend to about 75 degrees relative to the runway. So am I not bending this pole enough or is that an illusion from my low grip? I think I need to grip higer on a stiffer pole to get the timing right, or the same height on a 15'6 pole of the same equivilent stiffness so I have a more apropriate sail peice and the pole bends at 90 degrees relative to where I am holding. I think if I was to raise my grip on this pole it would overbend even though where I would be holding it the pole would not likely bend past 85 degrees, I think the top of the pole would bend past 100 degrees. I could be way off. What do you think?

--Kasey

[starkey480]

stiffer pole higher grip haha

[Barto]

The pole "handle" (length of the pole between the hands) needs to be bent past parallel ie greater than 90 degrees in order to be able to fully swing off the top ot the pole. Any less bend than this will impede the vaulter's ability to swing without artificially shortening their radius (tucking, breaking, pulling).