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Being seriously... and I know this is a stretch..

think it's possible to go from 12ft to 15-16ft from summer to next spring, minus camps due to a lack of job?


..feel free to laugh..

Possible? yes
Probable? not likely

What are some of your stats? 100m? Long jump?
Attending camps was my biggest help. From the sound of it, i would invest in Beginner to Bubka. If you can understand the concepts Mr. Launder is spelling out, you would be on the right track(no pun intended).

The last question is how bad do you want it. If the physical abilities are close, the technique is moving in the right direction, then by all means you'll get it.


Now, get moving towards that goal.

100m I'll find out this Saturday.. my guess is around 11.6 er so. Long jump my best was 19ft.


To answer yer question... I'll kill to get 15-16ft. I was about to quit football, which I've been playing for 9 years, just so I could get the extra season in for training...

DON"T DO IT!!!!!!!! You'll kick yourself for quitting football. Listen, keep in mind that T Mack is 32 and he won the Gold so you have plenty of time to vault. Have fun playing football, take the winter months to train for track. You can get a lot done in three months. When you go to college you won't be able to do both sports (at least that's what the normal track record is for most athletes). So, concentrate on pole vault there. In the mean time, look forward to next year in a manner of "chip shot" or "sure thing" goals. In other words, you're at 12 feet now, set your first goal for 13. 13 feet is pretty good in most conferences. Once you hit your thirteen, depending how you feel, kick it up another half a foot to a foot and work for that. If you really love vaulting, then you will probably keep at it for a long time after high school. Football on the otherhand will probably be done after your senior year in high school. So play it when you can. Another thing is (from a Dad's perspective) I only got a chance to be a "football Dad" for two years cause that's all my boy played. I loved every minute of it! I'm sure your folks do too. So, play football in the fall, do the best you can, contribute to the team, and then when you turn your pads in at the end of the season, shift gears and get ready for the vaulting season. Later.............Mike

also keep in mind american record holder tye harvey never cleared over 13'6 while in highschool.

The only problem I have with training in the winter is that there aren't any places around here (Western Massachusetts) to train during the winter. And we don't have an indoor team.

The indoor track team that I compete with remedied the problem of a lack of facility to practice at by doing all the practices in school....stairs are good, any long hallways to sprint 100 - 200 m in?

i try to get in the long hallways at school (damn janitors have to ruin it)... it ends up killin my ankle and shins though. i sumtimes get sum sprints in on the frozen ponds... kinda risky but hey.

thanks fer the suggestions.

LHSpolevault wrote:i try to get in the long hallways at school (damn janitors have to ruin it)... it ends up killin my ankle and shins though. i sumtimes get sum sprints in on the frozen ponds... kinda risky but hey.

thanks fer the suggestions.

Yes: this is the source of my chronic shin splints.

That sucks.

But as to frozen ponds and such...

Antihero43 wrote:also keep in mind american record holder tye harvey never cleared over 13'6 while in highschool.

umm...Jeff Hartwig?

When its winter and really icy on the roads, i wear a pair of my old spikes and go crunch time. Only do this when you know not many people will be on the road (you are crazy to drive in 3 inches of ice) and the spikes just crunch into the ice and ur good to go

There is a huge amount of stuff you can do in the winter. Winter time is the time to get your body ready to jump. Body strength will help you greatly when the season hits. You've got stairs to run, lot's and lot's of stairs, ropes to climb (if your school still allows one to be there), Trampoline to jump on. Pool to vault in. Weight machine to put a routine together on. After it snows, dress up in your heavier winter attire (after you've done a nice warm up) and do pole runs in the snow. Nothin' like a foot of snow to get you driving your knees up. Do Bubkas, go to bubbapv.com and build some of the apparatuses that he has for some of the drills. Find an open indoor meet to go to maybe say once a month or every other month. Key thing to do after football season is take your body from the football "bulk" to your track "lean and mean" and the winter time is the perfect time for that. The more time you focus on getting the body ready in the winter time, the more time you'll have to focus on technique and vaulting come Feb or Mar when you start track. This is the only time in your life that you have the opportunity to "do it all" so take advantage of your place in life and "do it all". Later...........Mike