I am i just weird or does this happen to other people too?

[PCHSpolevaulter16]

Ok belive it or not now that i have my form perfect and every thing is going great, the bar goes up and for some reason every thing changes. Most of the prob is inversion, like when i am doing my run threw before i come in i do it all perfect, then when the bar goes up for some reason my form goes straight down hill!!!! even at practice i am getting up there and clearing around 14' with the bungie and kicking well over 16' but then when i get into a meet i may kick 14"barely and get over 12". Do you think that i need to just try to pretend like the bar isnt even there until i get completely inverted or something? well if any of you have any i deas or have had the same thing happen then just tell me about it please!


thanks!

[vaulter894]

i have had a similar thing happen, it is a mental block. Just do your vault and don't think about the bar, and at practice put a bar up instead of a bungee and see what happens.

[Vaulter99]

dont feel alone on this, I had the same thing happen to me all during the winter season. its a tough thing but you just need to practice more and more.

[KYLE ELLIS]

[quote="PCHSpolevaulter16"]Ok belive it or not now that i have my form perfect

I love it when they say that!@ haha

[mcminkz05]

Ok belive it or not now that i have my form perfect

I love it when they say that!@ haha

AGREED!

[PCHSpolevaulter16]

haha well i guess its really no where near perfect but its the best it has ever been and looks great, like when i am doing my runthrews all of the other people form dif schoold think that i am going to win.....but then i get like 3rd, but i feel good about this. i think that i can get over it.

[Mecham]

A lot of people have this... "problem" I define it as idiopathic bar-anxiousidus. Its still in the research stages, but im sure we will find a perfect cure for this horrible... horrible... thing soon. So have no fear!

[PCHSpolevaulter16]

yeah lol that has to be what i have!! haha just tell me when you find the cure

[bvpv07]

Don't look up at the bar when you are at the end of the runway before you vault.

[CHC04Vault]

One thing i learned to do is NOT knowing what height the bar is at, i tell the official not to tell me what height it is and i ask my team mates to stand infront of the "PERFORMANCE" board so i don't know what i height i am at. It always works because when im done jumpin, i get made because i think i did horrible, but find out LATER that i PR'd.

[mcminkz05]

One thing i learned to do is NOT knowing what height the bar is at, i tell the official not to tell me what height it is and i ask my team mates to stand infront of the "PERFORMANCE" board so i don't know what i height i am at. It always works because when im done jumpin, i get made because i think i did horrible, but find out LATER that i PR'd.

Eh i tried that too before, but doesnt work for me. I want to know when the bar gets high and when im jumping for a pr or a record, it really gets the adrenaline pumping and i run faster, plant better, and overall jump much better

[Vaulter99]

you would still know what the bar is at because you have to tell the official what height you are opening at