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muscles used during running from most important to less important: -hamstrings -calfs -quadriceps -hip flexors -abdominals -glutes -erector spinae (back muscles) -arm/shoulder complex (for keeping form while carrying the pole) You can train these best succesively with weighttraining (max strength, n...

oooh mysteries! Who is he? I can't tell... And what is world class? 8+?

Just don't train weights too much in the 6-12 rep-zone. It will create strength through muscle growth and you don't want the extra pounds. When you're body is adjusted to weight training, you need to do max-strenght training. Like for instance 4x2 as vaultpurple mentioned. This wil create strength w...

Can someone (Pogostick maybe) explain what Petrov means with

the quickness and the amplitude (depth) of the “drive” on the pole

It might be my small vocabulary of the english language, but I really don't understand it . tnx!

August sounds great! But it's still ten months away...
Just tell what I need to arrange to get you here! e-mail is nielsalofsen at gmail.com

Thank you Kirk for the extensive answer. Where do you buy your time for all those very informative and interesting posts? The highbar is hollow steel and can have a diameter of 33 mm or 28 mm. We need to choose. Maybe two different thicknesses? For big hands and for small hands? It's going to be an ...

What is the ideal thickness of a highbar?

no, not much interest...let us just forget about the US polevaulters...

When are you coming to the Netherlands, Altius?

PVjunkie wrote:" It is superior to a high bar (not a substitue for) in that it can have a dobule pendulum action that the high bar cannot. It 's a pendulum with the fixed support on top and not below. So no transfer there... :D Please name a specific element of the swing and extension techniqu...

vaultwest wrote: I just wanted to point out that it can be a useful drill if used correctly with a safe facility. And thats just the problem. It is not so easy to setup a safe facility for platform rope vaulting. But, because of the fun and maybe-usefullness in this exercise, coaches and athletes w...

Altius wrote: the biggest weakness in US vaulting is in the run and take off I think it would be fair to say that the biggest weakness in the whole damn world vaulting is in the run and take off. Don't you think so too Alan? Not only the US vaulters are lacking runup and take off (jumping!) skills....

This wednesday Tom jumped 4meters for the first time :D => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL8uHp0TelU After that he tried 4.20meters => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZslw9aM96o&feature=related (first jump), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnqbzdDcAI&feature=related (second jump), http://ww...