Tim Mack Highschool PR

[rainbowgirl28]

Exactly! we all do
Theres no longer that magical barrier that tells you who can be good and who cant

LOL yeah there is... everyone is still ultimately limited by their speed.

You can be very good at the high school level if you are slow but technically sound. You can be decent at various college levels. But you can't be world class if you don't have the speed. It just isn't going to happen.

[APKpolevaulter]

Exactly! we all do
Theres no longer that magical barrier that tells you who can be good and who cant

LOL yeah there is... everyone is still ultimately limited by their speed.

You can be very good at the high school level if you are slow but technically sound. You can be decent at various college levels. But you can't be world class if you don't have the speed. It just isn't going to happen.

well, then I still have a chance i loe my speed.

[mikepv1]

Exactly! we all do
Theres no longer that magical barrier that tells you who can be good and who cant

LOL yeah there is... everyone is still ultimately limited by their speed.

You can be very good at the high school level if you are slow but technically sound. You can be decent at various college levels. But you can't be world class if you don't have the speed. It just isn't going to happen.

Speed can always be improved. Jeff Hartwig is a perfect example. Suffice to say, he didn't start out fast. LoJo had to work on his speed, too. He started as a gymnast, not a sprinter. Tye Harvey has never been especially fast. Derek Miles is no streak of lightning. I am betting Tim is a quantum leap faster than he was early on. Point being, gymnastic ability, a forceful jump at takeoff, and a hard swing account for alot as well, as do timing, balance, strength, motor coordination, and spatial awareness. And speed isn't going to make you world class. This whole philosophy that I have seen of vaulting once a week and then training like a sprinter is a complete fallacy. Vaulters are not sprinters, and not all world-class vaulters are incredibly fast. The one thing that links them all is technique. Although speed is important, it is not all there is.

Besides, as I said, speed can always be improved, and so can everything else, for that matter. There is always a way to improve (and no, I am not talking about using performance enhancers, which is a stupid, dangerous, and disgusting thing to do). Human potential is way beyond what people think. The thing that holds people back is closed-mindedness.

No athlete should ever believe in limits. Limits are just excuses.

[LancerVaulter07]

some of the "elite" vaulters out there now are def.
amazing because alot of them jumped "low" in HS.
and made huge jumps in PR's later...i read that Adam
Sarafian (sry about spelling if it's wrong) only jumped
around 11' or 11'6'' as a sophomore in 2002 than in
2004 he jumped 17'4.25'' to land the best vault in the states!
just gotta keep working hard!

[SlickVT]

... did someone say Fiberbenders?

[scubastevesgirly]

what's a fiberbender?

[SlickVT]

Our vault camp.

I have been going/assisting since about 8th grade. In those 7 years I have seen 20+ state champions train with us regularly, including Saraf, who came to us a little struggling 11 footer.
Granted, he worked really hard and has AMAZING body awareness, but Lance (our Fiberbender coach) definitely knows his stuff.
Even people who coach for other camps reluctantly admit this fact ;-).

We are in Reading, PA with a rope swing, a ring swing, high bars, two trampolines, a long jump pit, five runways (three raised runways sheltered in the woods), and really really really ridiculously good-looking assistant coaches...