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I watched you compete indoors at Hillsdale, MSU and warm up at Cornerstone Such a small world we live in. Anyways I agree with your statement about helping other athletes, even though I do help other athletes, it's only because form my little town I'm one of the few that know pole vault, granted, I...

I understand what you mean Ben, thanks! I'll look into the coaches mark a little more. Although, on the other part in my vault i work up from slow to fast to a constant to acceleration right at the end at takeoff. If that makes sense.

Okay, then I guess I'll suffer being uncomfortable so that I can jump higher haha. And over the past series of practices it has gotten a little better with being at 11'3" for take off leading to high jumps, but there are days when I still take off from my old position of 10'8" and overbend...

Thank you for the response Kirk, I haven't been in many meets this summer, just a lot of practicing. I understand what you mean when I am under, which normally my take off is at 11' and I take off right around 10'8" normally. so when I do move my steps to move my takeoff mark to be on, I can't ...

Now, I've been vaulting for about 6 years, and I've been increasing my height consistently as I get older and more mature, I started in seventh grade at the age of 12 vaulting 6'6" and now I'm 17 and have jumped 13'6" officially, and 14'9" in practice. All of these years of vaulting t...

Well, having a strong left arm (right arm if you're left handed) takes awhile to get down. I would recommend doing some smaller pole workouts and focus on keeping the bottom arm strong. Also, something that helped me when I was learning to keep my arm out I would do the Jagodin drill (also know as d...