OAKPV2004 wrote:ashcraftpv wrote:short vault, short vault, and short vault
I got a case of this my senior year and my coach forced me to short vault for 2 weeks, and it cured me.
smaller poles and shorter runs are always a good cure for mental barriers
Thats all I can do, but once I get back to 10 steps I can't plant everytime. Could it be that I took a lot fo time off during the holidays? I can't really figure it out. I have never really ran in to this problem before, but I hope it just takes a couple of weeks.
What you have to ask yourself Scott, is "what am I changing when I move to 10 steps that's different from 2, 4, 6, and 8?" Are you trying to go to too big of a pole? Is there a huge gap in your pole series? If so, you might be anticipating that next pole as being huge and overrunning yourself so badly out of position, that even if you did plant it, you probably couldn't roll it over. Try this, take some jumps at 8 steps on whatever pole you use there. Then move back a magic number to 10, and stay on the same pole with the same grip, but just basically jog down the runway - make yourself stay relaxed and just take off, no swing. Your mid mark shouldn't change that much from 8 to 10 steps, it really shouldn't move back more than like 6" to a foot at the most. If it is changing drastically, then you're changing your run. If you can do what I said and roll that 8 step pole easily, gradually begin working your grip up, and then go up a pole once you're dialed in on your mid and have taken off at least 5 times.
If you're not getting in on the next pole, then you need to find a transition pole - if so, call me, come out here and flex your series on my flex tester, and I'll hook you up with a transition pole.
Good luck!
Kris
