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Your pits are clearly unsafe for higher heights. Make this known to the coach and athletic director. Safety is at risk and is a more important consideration than vaulting high at the moment. You can call the pit manufacturer and get a quote if the pits can be refurbished. Do not jump high on them in...

Another problem is one tends to listen to the last person that says something to them. This can be good or bad. In the pole vault, if possible, athletes should stick with one competent coach. Try to avoid every unsolicited suggestions on how to improve your form. There are exceptions. As technique c...

Thanks, now it's fitting more together! Europeans did not get the glass pole till late 1961. Russians used mostly the Gill Vaultmaster and the Swedish Seefab poles. Interestingly, in 1963, the Russian National coach, Gabriel Korobkov made two very interesting comments referring to the glass pole. He...

Thanks for the article. Who are you referring to? What early vaulters tried to force bend the pole on the ground? Beginning in 1950, vaulters did bend the pole but force bending is quite difficult with ones hands are together or nearly together. The earliest known glass vaulters from 1950 to 1957 we...

Congratulations to Jenn's 5.02 and Kylie's 4.75. Both had great jumps and provided one of the highest results for a women's competition in the US.

I had the pleasure of working the event and cannot say enough nice things about all the vaulters and spectators in attendance.

I have not seen those type standards where a ledge existed right above the peg. The bar may well have returned to the peg and stayed had the standards been different.

This is a rare occurence and unfortunate for the great vaulter.

As you know, cut down poles have many uses:

Plant drills
stiff pole drills
pull turn push drills
putter upper
hold up FAT wires over track
batons

As you suspect the pole may not be safe for bending, don't allow it to be used for anything other than plant drills on the track into a slide box. You cannot live with the worst case scenario of an injury. You could be additionally liable for attorney fees and damages since you knew of the damage ye...

Have you ever had a problem getting a good grip on your pole?

In 1954, Cal vaulter Larry Anderson was the 1954 NCAA pole vault champion at 14' 2". (14’4” PR).

He vaulted with a total of 5 fingers, three on one hand and two on the other. His missing fingers were lost in a chemistry explosion.

It was Vern Wolfe. He coached the National HS record holder Jim Brewer. Jim set his first National HS record in the 10th grade. 14' on a steel pole. As a senior, with two days practice on the Pacific Laminates Silaflex pole, Jim jumped 14' 9". Another month later 15' 1/8" for another HS Na...

You left off the influence of the one person who coached the US National High School record holder, two NCAA record holders, two world record holders and both the gold medalist and silver medalist in two Olympic Games.

"Deja vu - Didn't we already go through that back when the Americans invented the fiberglass pole and he Europeans and Russians were declaring it the unfair American advantage? Here we go again." Long before Europeans complained about Americans having an "unfair advantage" pole, ...