I can feel the bend now!

[Ming3r]

Alrite, thanks.

It should be a lot easier with the smaller handgrip too...Looks like outdoor starts in a week

Thanks guys

[altius]

Great facility - weird vaulters.

[Ming3r]

Weird vaulters? This will be interesting to explain...

The first girl in the video, she kind of collapsed or soemthing and wasn't able to use her legs for a while...so she couldnt do indoor and this was her second time vaulting since outdoor.

The second girl...um, good question. I guess she just needs work and whatnot - first years often the one that screws with people the most. Too bad she decided to start vaulting when...she's a senior.

Then theres me, relearning how to vault.

And then theres one of my friends...first year for him, he just realized today he slows down drastically on his approach after I showed him the video. He doesn't really drive either, and I just ended up telling him to run faster because if he stutters like that he'll straddle the bar like I did in my first year because thats what happened.

Then theres my...coach. 200 pounds vaulting on my relaly stiff 160...

And then theres one of my friends who graduated last year but came back to help coach indoor vaulters and stuff. I had his 150 pole at the moment, so he claims he was trying to get used to the new pole

Anyways, thats only a couple of the vaulters, one was off hurdling, another was distance running, and a lot more show up for outdoor. I just don't understand why just about all of our vaulters (except for me, this one kid who lacks interest in it and does long jump, and my hurdler friend) are distance folks...then again, I'm the fastest vaulter at meets I go to, which I guess is the only way I made it over vaulting like I was before.

[Marengo139]

It looks like to me that your knees start out high and then you look like you trying to drive into the box too hard. Iff you keep your knees up it will give you a tendency to jump off the ground on the plant which will make everything following that much easier

Believe me i've always had trouble keeping my knees up until recently but when it finally clicked i added a foot to my PR

[Ming3r]

Alrite, yesterday I was vaulting into the shallow end of the pool during practice. It was basically from a stand, push off and keep the arms out basically. Sure, I got that no problem.

Now, the next part: Do it, and then collapse the arm, invert and turn. I couldn't even get my arm collapsed, which is definately a problem, because last year when I did these I could do them fine, except my arms didn't really start out so there was basically no bend to the pole, so no timing involved. Now, righ tnow I'm kind of screwed, because I just can't collapse when I want to. I mean, when I think about it, my top arm just kind of let go because by that time, all my weight was on it, and it was like meh.

On the swing, I could semi collapse my arm, and when just doing inverts on a hanging bar I could do it fairly well, or at least until the point where you have to pop your wrist around the pole, because jmy arm just gets caught on it on that.

There is no way I should have been in sectionals, cuz I'm at a pretty pathetic level now (even worse when I was in sectionals) - righ tnow my only benefit is that I'm fast.

[Ming3r]

Alrite, I'm getting nervous now.

I'm going to be at meets Friday, Saturday, and Monday...and I still havn't worked on inverting. I'm basically at the same point as I was in my video here, but I'll probalby choke up.

My only concern is, is that since Friday is a JV meet, if I can't pull the n ot collapsing my left arm as soon as I jump, should I revert back to my old way of vaulting for the sake of getting a height or not?

That and I'm just worried about it - I still can't really collapse my arm, and I may also end up doing what I was doing at RIT - bend the pole, go up and bring the pole with me (I managed to get 8 feet while practicing...it was weird.)

[Ming3r]

bump?

Also looks like my coach will be having me use the 160 tomorrow, stiff like crazy...