PoleVaultPower.com

Katie Zingheim from Granite Bay, CA to Stanford University Stanford Press Release Stanford, Calif. - Franklin P. Johnson Director of Track and Field Edrick Floreal has announced the signing of 24 high school seniors to national letters of intent. The class of 15 women and nine men will compete for S...

5 from each region instead of 3? What's the reasoning behind this rule change? The national meet always has about 25+ vaulters as it is. Don't get me wrong, it would be nice to give more athletes the chance to participate in the national meet, but having a meet that large really disadvantages the be...

We have girls born in '93 who can clear 4.00 or very close to it consistently.... why did we send an 11 footer?

Leleux placed 1st Kortney Ross 2nd Mackenzi Landry 3rd i think Sandi Morris was 4th Shayla Simpson 5th Katherine Zingheim 6th i'm not sure about the rest- and the conditions weren't that bad, but it was pretty cold and windy (at least for those of us from california :) ) the runway seemed a little s...

haha and it sounds like you know the coach i used to work with because you described him exactly lol. hes definately considered "over the top"

Even if you "hear" and "remember" those 5-6 things at the end of the runway, you won't "remember" and "execute" them during your vault. That's expecting too much. That's INFORMATION OVERLOAD! oh I know I COMPLETELY agree with you. My new coah gives me like 2 ...

from a vaulters perspective, I think that an athlete would have to be at a fairly elite level (college at least) before the coach becomes relatively obselete during competition. I think it is a good idea for coaches to steer inexperienced vaulters in the right direction during competition because ma...

I have been icing and that seems to help. ya i think podiatrist is the next step at this point-- i was just interested to see if any other polevaulters have experienced this. it seems like such a random injury

Okay so the past few weeks I've developed a really strange foot injury. The top of my feet hurt when I walk or run. The pain varies from day to day usually it's not too bad but some days it hurts like no other. It's mostly concentrated in my take off foot. I've had this problem before when I'm jumpi...

Your takeoff is not good, placing you in a bad position for the swing. Consequentially, if you're in a bad position after the takeoff you can't swing properly and hence you have to tuck to get your legs up. This is usually a huge problem for people who take off under. Basically, you're tucking to c...

if you have access to rings or a high bar, doing drills focusing on a drive knee and straight trail leg can help you when it actually comes time to vault. also practice short run or pop ups focusing on the straight leg. how you practice is how you will compete

i asked his coach what he was using and thats what he said. he also said that Nico weighs 185