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[Lax PV]

I'm not sure I can imagine anyone not strong enough in the forearms to pole vault. My son has been strong enough to do it since he was four.

Yeah. I don't see many high jumping pole vaulters with pop-eye like arms. If you can hold onto a pole, they are strong enough..

trust me it works great. we do one handed sand vault drills to build grip stregnth among other things and im like the only one on the team that can do them w/o grabbing the pole w/ my other hand.

I doubt it is a grip strength issue for your teammates, they are probably trying to grip the pole too high for their ability and that drill.

and yeah, what she said.

[vault3rb0y]

I have enough strength to pole vault, it was 10 sets of rings and rope drills that started to get me. When you climb up a rope upside down 3 times, on the third one i would start to not be able to grip the rope. Thats kind of worked itself out in the past weeks though, and its gotten easier.

basically, i think everyone has the strength to support themselves for a vault, but the endurance for rope and ring workouts sometimes gets to ya.