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Does it make much of a difference if you completely lock out your resisting arm compared to alot of bend with semi locked out arm. My senior of vaulting has not been the same. I was jumping in the 13's my junior year. Moved up on a 175 pole compared to the 165 I used to jump on. Now my jumpings just...

I got to witness a pole breaking at seaman relays when a kid was attempting 13. The pole broke into four different pieces. Do the poles usually break into soo many pieces?.... or is it just the essx. Back to the story... amazingly enough he got on another pole and attempted the next two attempts. Bu...

yeah ive been doing these kick off drills with no luck... i just cant hold it at the top... i just come out wayy to early, and rick attig told me never to throw my head back... or it'll start causing some serious problems... i donno.. he said it....

anyone else on here get crazy crazy shin splints?... and do you get rid of them.. goodness... they are throwing my run off like crazy... my meds are just not good enough sometimes.

yeah by the way, im jumping on a 14 foot 175 pole... i weigh around 160 and im penetrating around 24-26 ish into the pit consistently...

For some reason I just cant get totally inverted. I have a very hard time relaxing my flex in arm, and I come out too early. My coach keeps on telling me to hold it at the top... because i come out horizontally before the pole totally unwinds.... and i just cant get upside down.... im sure most of y...

check out this article ........ http://espn.go.com/oly/news/2003/0920/1619920.html

i dont knowwwww....... but i got to meet Eric Eshbach coupla weeks ago at rick attigs pole vault camp. The photographers were trying to take pictures of him...... and whatd they do is the photographer would sit right above the box on that little spot on the pit..... which is just inches from the pit...

thanks alooooooooot

When i recently moved up on a newer and a foot longer pole, my take off mark has been the same.... during video analysis, i could tell that i was taking off way inside. Ive tried moving backwards about 2 - 2.5 feet, But I still keep on doing it. When i practice runs with the pole but without going u...

I was wondering how I can get more speed in for my vault. I do a 54321liftpop approach at 83' 6". What are somet things i can work on for speed?

What kind of stretches are most useful to a vaulter?