Hervé D'Encausse Video - 1966
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:56 pm
This video is in French, and is entitled
Portrait du sportif Hervé D'ENCAUSSE, un des fers de lance de la perche française.
Literal translation: Portrait of the sportsman Hervé D' ENCAUSSE, one of the irons of spear of the French pole.
http://ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.ph ... _notices=2
He's the father of Philippe D'Encausse.
His elite career was 1963-1972. In 1968, he was within 1 cm of Paul Wilson's WR at 5.37m (17-8). He placed 7th in the Olympics, and was world-ranked 4th that year.
It's a 12-minute film, showing many basic PV excercises, but the good vaulting film is all in the last 3 minutes (in case you want to fast-forward).
You can see how much pits have improved since 1966! I jumped in far, far worse than that in high school in 1966-68.
I would characterize Hervé's technique as a typical muscle vault of the era - abrupt takeoff (under); dropping the lead knee; muscle to a semi-invert; and not much fly-away. But still having a PR of 5.37! (Not in this film.) His athleticism is phenomenal to go that high with such poor technique! (We were unaware back then that he was practising poor technique - he was one of the best.)
By typical of the era, I mean that he started vaulting on steel, and did not fully transition to fiberglass. In fact, we were all just figuring out then what the proper fiberglass technique should be.
I separate this era from the pure fiberglass era - where vaulters didn't have to unlearn steel technique. I was right on the fringe of these 2 eras.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in the 1972 Olympics.
Kirk Bryde
Portrait du sportif Hervé D'ENCAUSSE, un des fers de lance de la perche française.
Literal translation: Portrait of the sportsman Hervé D' ENCAUSSE, one of the irons of spear of the French pole.
http://ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.ph ... _notices=2
He's the father of Philippe D'Encausse.
His elite career was 1963-1972. In 1968, he was within 1 cm of Paul Wilson's WR at 5.37m (17-8). He placed 7th in the Olympics, and was world-ranked 4th that year.
It's a 12-minute film, showing many basic PV excercises, but the good vaulting film is all in the last 3 minutes (in case you want to fast-forward).
You can see how much pits have improved since 1966! I jumped in far, far worse than that in high school in 1966-68.
I would characterize Hervé's technique as a typical muscle vault of the era - abrupt takeoff (under); dropping the lead knee; muscle to a semi-invert; and not much fly-away. But still having a PR of 5.37! (Not in this film.) His athleticism is phenomenal to go that high with such poor technique! (We were unaware back then that he was practising poor technique - he was one of the best.)
By typical of the era, I mean that he started vaulting on steel, and did not fully transition to fiberglass. In fact, we were all just figuring out then what the proper fiberglass technique should be.
I separate this era from the pure fiberglass era - where vaulters didn't have to unlearn steel technique. I was right on the fringe of these 2 eras.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in the 1972 Olympics.
Kirk Bryde