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I thought I'd give an update. Well I progressed big time and it all came at once. I was as straight as a pencil and for the first time I felt myself shoot upward at the end of the vault. I was getting shot up like I imagine I am supposed to. So I'll let you know what I personally needed to do to ach...

Ok thanks Kirk, I understand. What you said sounds very similar to what I've been recently hearing from alan launder on youtube. It makes sense to me. I have seen someone do a very elite jump (18ish feet) with a double leg swing and I was skeptical because it seemed work quite well for him and he pe...

Ok got it. I have one another question regarding the the end of the swing phase. Is it supposed to feel like it is only the trail leg that is swinging long with power to get you upside down or is there a point during the swing where I should should start feeling myself rotating my drive knee back on...

Ok excellent I'm glad that I might be on the right track. I will be working on it this summer and I'm looking into going to one of Jan Johnson's camps. It was one of his old homemade looking videos (maybe called skylimits or something) that got me into vaulting in the first place. What I've found is...

I've been reading on this forum and I find it to be the best thing I can do as a vaulter with no coach. I am trying to conquer the "L" position and I wanted to get a little insight from you guys. First I'll start with a little profile of me. My max height in vaulting is 13 feet using a 13f...

I was watching a meet (in florida) yesterday and a kid said he wanted his standards at 13. So that caught my attention and I aksed the person who was signing the vaulters in "did he say 13?" She told me that that kids coach had informed her that the rules changed for standards and they are...

I have no coach so it's really hard to find help. I esspecially need help getting out of this "U" posistion that I'm in instead of being vertical. I think maybe I need to use my arms and my abs to pull myself out of the U and into the straight up and down position that i want but im not su...