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I was wondering if anyone else out there keeps track of different factors to your vault during meets and practice in a 'Vault-book.' You know your step, poles, etc.

My real questions is what factors do you track...

Does anyone have a spreedsheet made to make tracking easy and consistant?

Thanks and please help if you can.

SCSUVAULTER

I think a vaulter should generally know where he/she is when it comes to their steps, what poles they can get on, speed, strength, etc. But i think it can be good for an experienced coach to record some of those things to keep track of how you are doing on a training cycle. So yea i think a vaultbook is good, but not much use unless there is a coach who knows how to read into it and apply it.

Here is a template that I made to keep track of your jump session:
http://www.flightdeckathletics.com/temp/athletelog.xls

Feel free to steal it and modify it if your needs are different.

thanks Chris

does anyone else have anything...

I talk to my vaulters about documenting sleep, diet, training, etc. They always think it's a great idea, but seldom follow through with it. I have to remember that I'm dealing with HS kids.

Nothing is more irritating than being at a major D1 meet and having vaulters lining up at the pit to run their steps back.

Write it down. Mark them out. Go.

SlickVT wrote:Nothing is more irritating than being at a major D1 meet and having vaulters lining up at the pit to run their steps back.

Write it down. Mark them out. Go.

or atleast remember them....it annoys me too

agreed, totally!

Those are the kinds of things i can just remember, like my short run (5 lefts) starting at 63' and usually going to about 64'6" or my long run starting at 112 and depending on the runway im on, usually going in or out 2 feet. You also know all your grips on certain poles and your mid and take off marks. If you dont know these things going into a national meet, you might be in trouble when it comes to the higher heights. thats all i gotta say.

At the end last season I made a big spreadsheet for recording results from my combined events using formulae for IIAF scoring tables. For vault I usually just remember poles and runways (and I guess for other jumps & jav as well) in my head.

People who run back their runways drive me bonkers. If you change even one thing about how you run and plant, it doesn't work! Most guys that do it will find their takeoff spot (too far under) by flexing the pole in the box, spin around on their toe and (holding the pole beside them in one hand) run (lazilly) back up the runway (with bad form) and run through their takeoff, looking down to see where their foot hit, without jumping or even pretending to jump. Then they go back to where they thought their starting mark should be, which, of course, isn't even remotely close to the spot where their foot landed anyway, making this entire exercise pointless. Then, after trying a practice vault and realizing they're totally off, they'll REPEAT this process just to make sure they got it right the first time.

There's no emoticon to describe...wait there it is!

Hopefully there'll only be one vaulter doing this, but usually they come in packs (misery loves company?). All the while they've been in the way for about 5 minutes PER VAULTER, whereas taping a measure from the box back down the runway takes, maximally, 30 seconds for EVERYONE and is much, much more precise leading to shorter warm up times.

i vote 2 flights for vaulters- those who run their steps back and those who dont. It usually turns into vaulters with good coaches and vaulters with bad coaches... sorry .

understandable