Video: Scott Roth HSR 5.35m/17-7 Attempt

[Mecham]

My words may be meaningless or completley wrong, but its just my ideas.

I think if he let the arms come back more i.e. the left hand over his head not infront of him. the pole will bend and recoil later in the vault. This allows for a better position for the rest of the vault. It also seems like he has a rather wide grip. If he kept is trail leg long and whip it to the top he wont tuck it and lose energy, he will be able to do a "bubka" drop the shoulders and drive the hips faster transferring more energy in the pole which makes the pole recoil faster when it is necessary. If he does this, the vault will have more energy the whole time. He will land safely in the pit and clear 18'4. He does have a great vault though, small things done correctly will amount to great things or something like that.

But hey, im just in high school, it might not be correct.

[GBHS]

That is the way I think he should look. But to get him to do it. If he will keep his leg long, my thought is it will keep pressure on the pole until he gets into position. I also think it will help him to stay centered. How to get him to do that is the problem.

[nitro]

if you do figure it out could you post it because i think it would help a lot of people out

[Mecham]

drills drills drills. Stiff pole swings. NOT pop ups. I think Agapit posted something on stiff pole drills.

[polevaulter08nw]

yeah but on the stiff pole swings are you swinging all the way through?

[Mecham]

Do you swing all the way through in the vault?

[polevaulter08nw]

like if you are doing stiff pole swing drills, do you swing up to full verticle or just with your swing leg up to the top of the pole?

[vaultman18]

the first thing i noticed when i saw this video is his right knee drops right after take-off. Does he always do that? If so does ever break poles die to bottom loading? If he could tighten up the take-off he could easily go over 18 and not have the standards at 45. My two cents

[polevaulter08nw]

im sorry, what was the middle sentence saying?

[vaultman18]

Sorry not die. Does he ever break poles due to bottom loading.
sorry

[polevaulter08nw]

well if you want to see a vid of him breaking go to neovault.com and on the main page clovis street vault preview will come up and it shows him breaking a pole, check it out.