Open your season in style - Hooker 6 meters

[rainbowgirl28]

Cool, you guys can read all about his 6 meter day here:
http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/flotra ... og&id=1887

[bjvando]

http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/flotrackr/videos.php?a=video_show&show=&vid=27991


He put up his warm up jump on flotrack.com. This jump is HUGE

huge jump!!
Did anyone notice in the summary above the video he said the standards are at 95cm... ?

Does IAAF have a maximum and minimum standard placement?

[VTechVaulter]

does he look slow to anyone else??

the work on the pole is sweet!!! crazyness

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/flotrackr/videos.php?a=video_show&show=&vid=27991


He put up his warm up jump on flotrack.com. This jump is HUGE

huge jump!!
Did anyone notice in the summary above the video he said the standards are at 95cm... ?

Does IAAF have a maximum and minimum standard placement?

That was just for a warmup jump.

[wurster490]

It was just a warm up jump, you can put the standards where ever you want then. In the competition if you read his blog he says that his standards were at 80, then 70 etc. As for 95cm if it were in the competition that would be too much depth. As for his speed in the video, i'm sure its just type of video file, I know some quick time videos look faster then they really are. There is no way that he is slow, he's like a 10.69s 100m guy and there is no way that he could be slow jumping on an 11.5flex 5.20 m pole.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 88,00.html

Steve Hooker clears the magic six metre mark

Scott Gullan
February 02, 2008 12:00am
THE best thing for Steve Hooker is he can now move on.

For the past four years the same question has been going around in his head - When will six metres come?

Last Sunday, in the most unexpected circumstances, he finally achieved pole vault's holy grail.

Hooker's first competition of the year, a low-key interclub meeting in Perth, saw him sail over 6m on his third attempt.

Asked yesterday what his first week as a 6m man had been like, the 25-year-old said: "Not too different, really."

Hooker became just the 15th pole vaulter in history and the third Australian to clear the magical mark.

His first reaction was relief.

"It's good to just get it out of the way and now I can focus on results," Hooker said.

"I know I can do it and I know there is plenty more there.

"It has always been a matter of transferring my training into competitions and to do that in the first one for the year is a good sign."

Hooker, who started last year as world No. 1 but lost his mantle after a disappointing world championships in August, is aiming for Dmitri Markov's Australian record of 6.05m set in 2001.

"We treated it like an extended training session," he said. "I stopped jumping after I jumped 6m the other night, but I felt like if I put the bar up to 6.06m I could have had a really good crack at it."

After winning the gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Hooker and his coach Alex Parnov made major changes to his technique.

He believes this made him vulnerable at last year's world titles in Osaka, when he went in as favourite but finished ninth.

With Australian teammate Paul Burgess, who cleared 6m at a Perth interclub meet in 2005, sidelined because of an achilles injury, Hooker is unlikely to be challenged during the domestic season.

He rates himself a 70 per cent chance of competing at interclub level today but will wait to see how his body pulls up after training.

Hooker's first major meeting will be the Melbourne Grand Prix at Olympic Park on February 21 before the Olympic trials in Brisbane, beginning on February 28.

[achtungpv]

From Hooker's blog...
So the philosophy going into the comp was to stay on poles until they are definitely too soft before moving up poles rather than moving up poles for a new height or anticipating a pole becoming soft.

All high schoolers and most collegians should repeat this to themselves before every practice and every meet.

[carvaulter]

Someone put the video up on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiMEw7J1Q4