Jason roberts from lecanto florida and Velocity Pole Vault(aka me)
I Set up the velocity pole vault team so that we could train year round. We got the pits out over the summer and jumped great. I went from jumping 11-15ft last year during the season and started going at 16ft from a five left in practice over the summer. Football season rolls around and we had to put up the pits. So we weightlifted and sprinted for 14 weeks. Im 5'6-5'7 140 lbs and i was eventually leg pressing over 700 pounds explosively! well football season ends.
pits come back out in november. start jumping great again. late december i started getting back on big poles and trying to jump high from a 5 step. January rolls around and i had still been blowing through all my poles. well early January i got on a 15ft 160 from a 5 step. (That pole would have put me back up around 16ft again). It was a cold day and my hands were dry. i planted the pole. put a big bend in it and when i got about 6 inches off the ground my top hand popped off ( thanks to the dry hands and messed up grip) the bend came back and hit me square in the kneecap.
well i didnt know until two weeks later that it was actually broken!
the top right corner of my kneecap was completley broken off. i had a couple choices. a brace. or surgery. i chose the brace! lol
its now just about march and the doctors have said my knee is 100 percent. im super excited to work back into things and eventually be able to sprint again in a couple weeks. my projected heal time was 3 months and miraculously its only taken a little over a month and a half!!!
I can jump from a 2 step right now and can probably clear around 12 12 6 from it. Thats not important though.
anyway just figured id share what was going on. I really had hoped to be over 16 by this point in the season in practice at least. --- i still have 5 colleges left on my signing options list and im still narrowing it down. if anyones interested in my recruitment just ask.
anyway. im not going to quite jump the way i wanted to this year but my aim is to jump real high over the summer. ill keep you updated on this topic. i guess this was sort of a personal blog but o well. anyone that wants to share some inspirational stories or pray for my continual progress in healing is more than welcome to! thanks again!