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SUNY Binghamton-Tyler Nichols(14-6) yep, that's me

I'll be going to SUNY Binghamton this fall for pole vault, and want to know what are the most important things to be prepared for, expect, etc.. of college vaulting (binghamton is D1 so that might determine responses in some way) Thanks in advance for any repleis

my coach kept telling me too look back... but he is a distance coach, so it's forgiveable, thanks for the help, looking at my top hand will probly fix it.... why didnt i think of that?

i wish our other vaulters would stay three hours, someone to vault with who isn't there to get away from a work out would be nice!

i know what you mean, and my first thought was to check my steps because i figured i was stalling out from planting way under... but my steps were good, and i kept doing it( i take 6-8 lefts, usually 6) i mentioned that im alittle under because ive been doing that for years and ive gotten over 14 6 ...

I've been having a very strange problem... my take off is alittle under, as it usually is, running alittle faster and jumping much better, but now when i do my swing up, I get stuck behind my top hand, so when i kick up, i hit my arm, kinda stall for a second, then let my pole fling me horizontally....

hey, PVpirate, when youre down at emory next, tell coach James Goss his high school in skaneateles says hello!

-people from the south west who hate people from the north east
- tearing your maniscus
- people who take way to long to go for anything below 13 feet

my worst runway experience was not a necersarrily bad runway.... it was just extrememly short. Indoor manley field house in syracuse, you couldnt take more then a six step, and that step was still disturbingly close to where the shot putters threw their stuff.... actually made it kind of interesting

i have the same sorta problem, i swing into a postion with my ankles and feet lined right up... how can i corredt that, it has become quite a bad habit, and it's made it quite difficult to clear 14' lately... if anyone knows of what i speak, and knows how to make it die, please help!!

i always try new poles at practice first... and fail... but then when i take them out at meets they somehow gain alot of flexibility and i can get on them pretty easily.... except my 145 15' carbon.