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Keep your hips in line with your shoulders on take off, by shortening your last step to leave the ground in a very slight forward angle. From there, your trail leg should come behind you naturally, and you will have a much longer axis to swing on.

See a PT. There is no "one" exercise that will fix you or make you good at pole vaulting. Especially if you are rehabilitating your shoulder, you are going to want to be doing several rotator cuff exercises, back exercises, and shoulder/neck exercises with low weight, probably sets of 10-1...

Just something to add to Scott's comments, your position on take-off is decent but your hips start moving in front of your shoulders before your trail leg has fully extended. AKA, your hips are getting sucked under. Fixing your pole drop will help this enormously, but also focus on staying behind th...

You have a tendency to pull after you leave the ground. Try to stretch your hands high and "hang" from the pole after a strong take off. Keep your trail leg straight as you swing it through. Also, you are using your bottom arm to help accelerate your swing. You don't have to be pulling wit...

Thank you Brian...... #1 question I have always wanted to know in pure data... How much energy does it take to bend a pole to x % when the pole is Y stiffness? Does the energy used get redistributed when the pole unbends or what % is lost from the bending to unbending process. These are only a few ...

Somewhat relevant: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jmp575/blogs/example_blog/2011/03/energy-transfer-in-the-pole-vaultpdf.html I wrote this for a technical definition for an english project. It's dumbed down but should still pretty sound, minus the additional energy input once off the ground, which was ...

More specifically, while he is on the pole his transfers more energy into the pole by rotational kinetic energy, creating a moment around his top hand. Also, during the top part of his inversion he transfers energy from his muscles into moving his hips upwards in a free-hip to handstand action. Thes...

A Div. 1 school in the SEC of Big Ten conference is fairly likely to offer a little scholarship to someone who jumps 16'6". If you jump 16', you might have a little shot at a little money from one of these big time D.1's. A Div. 1 school in a smaller, less competitive conference might offer som...

Try the glue or at least practice with some tape to hold it in place till the meet.

Also make sure you are letting it dry up at night. Wipe it with alcohol, it hurts like hell but it drys the area up nice, and make sure you are letting it air out at night.

Can't view your video due to "privacy settings". It's great to have that goal in mind, but three things come to mind immediately: 1.) all the smaller goals it will take for you to achieve that large goal. Until you start achieving these smaller goals, and enjoying the PROCESS not the outco...

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As long as it isn't over-used or too tall I think it can be a good tool. Just make sure you avoid getting too comfortable with it, and avoiding knee injury by keeping the runs short and the box short.

I understand completely. My coaches definitely wouldn't let me do any long jumping unless they saw it as a means to an end as well. I will bring it up after our conference championship this weekend. In the mean time, I don't have videos, but we worked a lot of 3-step vaults from stiff and flexible r...