Duplantis Videos

[tif]

hi everybody,
very interesting videos, especially for shorter vaulters like me!! It seems that he is very very fast, i would like to know how fast was he? do you guys have any of his times?

[KYLE ELLIS]

I have never seen anyone with the hangtime greg got in his 18'5 jump. It seemed like he pushed off and hung in the air for like 5seconds before coming back down to earth. Someone said he was on a 4.90 190lb pole? How much did he weigh?

[KirkB]

His published weight is 134 lbs. Nice build tho - he wasn't skinny.

You realize that "hang time" is governed solely on gravity. It's "handstand" that's the critical metric that determines "hang time". A better question (to determine handstand and "hang time") is grip. Does anyone know what he usually gripped? We know he used 16' poles.

As soon as I get his grip, I'll post a detailed analysis of Greg's vaulting technique.

Kirk

[Barto]

Greg was 150-ish as a full grown athlete.

Usually gripped between 15'6 and 15'9.

Not a super competitive sprinter, but could rep off 7 flat 60m runs in practice.

Jumped right at 23' in high school.

As far as I know Greg took the longest of any athlete in history to go from 18' to 19'. He made 18' as a high school senior and did not make 19 until age 27. Tells you everything you need to know about his personality.

[KYLE ELLIS]

His published weight is 134 lbs. Nice buid tho - he wasn't skinny.

You realize that "hang time" is governed solely on gravity. It's "handstand" that's the critical metric that determines "hang time". A better question (to determine handstand and "hang time") is grip. Does anyone know what he usually gripped? We know he used 16' poles.

As soon as I get his grip, I'll post a detailed analysis of Greg's vaulting technique.

Kirk

Yes I understand.. I was just saying what it looks like. I think why he looks like is in the air so long is because he is still traveling up- (his hand gets about 2ft above his grip before he starts coming down). I don't think I have seen anyone rise that high off the pole before, probably due to the fact that he was on a pole around 45-50lbs above his weight.

[KirkB]

I posted my analysis of Greg's technique on my thread here: http://polevaultpower.com/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=38&t=15483#preview since his technique is so similar to mine.

Kirk

[KYLE ELLIS]

I posted my analysis of Greg's technique on my thread here: http://polevaultpower.com/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=38&t=15483#preview since his technique is so similar to mine.

Kirk

why do you call the push-off a handstand??

[KirkB]

Hmm, maybe I've just aged myself.

Back in the pre-fiberglass days, that's what they called it. It was because the idea was to invert, then sort of do a handstand on the pole (as much as possible), before releasing as you go over the bar.

I thought that terminology had carried thru to modern day vaulting, but my bad if its an archaic term.

Now, in the fiberglass era, you don't just do a handstand on the pole, if you do it right, you actually FLY (glide, actually) off the pole - in Duplantis' case, you fly up a couple feet before your bar clearance. Thus your reference to his amazing "hang time".

But even today, all but the youngest of vaulters should still know what a "handstand" means, no?

It's the difference between the grip and the bar height, adding another 8 inches for the depth of the box.

Kirk

[Barto]

Since the 80's most technical writings have called "handstand" the amount of push off the top of the pole or "push-off".

[Andy_C]

Greg was 150-ish as a full grown athlete.

Usually gripped between 15'6 and 15'9.

Not a super competitive sprinter, but could rep off 7 flat 60m runs in practice.

Jumped right at 23' in high school.

As far as I know Greg took the longest of any athlete in history to go from 18' to 19'. He made 18' as a high school senior and did not make 19 until age 27. Tells you everything you need to know about his personality.

Is that hand timed or electronic?

[Barto]

electric

[dracjr]

130lbs. maybe in h.s. on 170/175lbs. poles ran low 4.5 in 40 yd. dash as soph. in 1979: all you had to know about greg was his volicity at 10 to 5 meters from the box, no one has carried more speed through the take off that i have seen