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On the team I coach for: Our Decathlete long jumps and pole vaults in triple jump spikes One of our pole vaulters pole vaults in long jump spikes One of our triple jumpers likes pole vault spikes One of our pole vaulters just PRd wearing her 200-400 spikes. All comes down to what you are most comfor...

VP, I'm not sure you understand the RLZ rule. You mentioned the "coaches box" and seemed to infer that it was the same as the RLZ. It's not. The coaches box exists today, and is the Preferred Landing Zone (PLZ). The RLZ is wider and deeper than the PLZ. I agree with you that if you clear ...

If someone clears the cross bar at 18 that is enough safety precaution in my opinion. Have you ever seen someone clear a crossbar at 45 and still landed dangerously in the box? No. You may have someone who did not land in the coaches box, but odds are you have never seen someone clear a crossbar and...

Tim Mack 1995 NCAA Indoor National Championships 5.60m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4WxYq-VIv8

The event has to have some consistency. The rule states the bar must land back at its original resting place. It may sound dumb because you would think, well what is wrong with it landing higher? Well what it if it landed lower? Theoretically a vaulter jumping and hitting a cross bar that lands one ...

1) I agree: There is a lack of post college training opportunities (unless you stay with your college coach but then it comes down to liability issues if the school allows post college training) 2) I disagree there is a lack of good coaching. There are a ton of great coaches. The majority know and h...

I saw the pdf when I went to the file to comment on the situation. The photo was essentially of the saftymax box collar which I think sparked most of the debate. The ASTM pdf was not clearly written as it only chose to demonstrate one of the allowed collars. But I do remember clearly that when it ta...

Another great set of college performances showing a good future for USA Track and Field. I know the real elites do not take indoors that serious but had USA Indoor been at a time not the week before NCAA's the top 7 performances at USA's would have been college athletes. This is the same way as disc...

6 guys still in at 5.20. Glad to see these guys are trying to erase the stereotype of a 'pole vaulting like a decathlete'.

the second-best valid qualifying meet performance submitted during the season This is the great part about how vague the rule book is. Both interpretations can be correct. 4.13 in the same meet is a valid mark in the same way that you can qualify for NCAA in the prelims of a race. However the rule ...

It depends on how you were taught to pole vault. If you just run fast and put your hands over your head without jumping then there is not really much of a transition other than step consistency. Your broad jump being close to 10 is the best stat you have listed for your body weight. It means you are...

It keeps his center of mass lower which drives the pole in a little longer, making him 'have to' get on bigger poles. The negative is that it slightly slows down the swing and makes the vaulter have to tuck slightly more than they would if they did not drop the knee to cover the pole. There is a lit...