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I have been training hard for the past couple months now gained back all my muscle and everything and speed. bad thing is i gained back about 5 pounds of muscle which i dont think i need so im gonna turn down the lifting a lot and jut work on rings and rope. i still have yet to take a full run and even touch a 16 foot pole to jump on, but so far im doing good on like a 5 -6 step aproach on the 15s even though they are like noodles. cant wait for the season to kick in let me know how everyones coming along and if they are as excited as i am, BIG EAST be ready

uconnvaulta wrote:but so far im doing good on like a 5 -6 step aproach on the 15s even though they are like noodles.

Then try them from a 4 step approach!

One of my major prerequisites for moving on to a longer run is to jump >15' gripping <14' from a 4 step run. Until you can do it, backing up is just like throwing gas on a fire.

Barto

I got on a 16 on my 5 step at a camp over the summer, then almost broke my heal and decided to start from scratch. and what for all the hard work, now I get to run 50s and high jump.... oh well

at vt we just moved back to 6 lefts right now. weve got some good jumps goin, but emphasis is still on getting faster and stronger. had some fights with the people in the gymnastics room, so not getting much of that. But we will be ready to leave our mark on the big east b4 moving on the the ACC

fights in the gymnastics room........lets hear some details about that one.
were these fights with gymnasts? female gymnasts?

well what happened is we were in the gymnastics room one day. and we set up a minitramp and then a section of a pit (that was similar to our vault pads ) about 3 feet behind it. We then proceeded to find any and all objects we could use to make a large wall in front of the pad. The goal was to pretty much do a dive over the wall and then roll out on the other side. Well, we measured the wall up to about 9 and a half feet. Before the gymnasts realized just what we were doing. Not the sharpest people ever. And they came over and asked us to stop, but we were in the middle of a contest. So we just kind of kept going. And words were exchanged, and next thing we knew, we were banned. Just cuz they are a bunch of little babies. Were gonna try and go back in thursday and hope theyve forgotten. That place is way to much fun to leave alone. Although our coach bought us a mini tramp to play with at practice (his daughter is a level 9 gymnast, so she comes out too). So we still have some fun.

i start doing pop-ups tomorrow!!!!! hooray for decathlon training!!

Your doing pop up tomorrow. I guess you'll jump 17 8 next week then. Man I still hate you!!!!!!! LB

lonpvh wrote:Your doing pop up tomorrow. I guess you'll jump 17 8 next week then. Man I still hate you!!!!!!! LB

i'm shooting for 18'0" by the end of the week. if i get that, then i'm gonna quit here, and transfer to ark. state, unless you hate me.

Yea, then I can coach you back down. Can't wait till Christmas break to see ya here. LB

we did more than pop-ups my friends... we did hang drills too!!!! oh yeah, i also cleared 17'11.75"....