Re: Does the Russian model represent ideal technique?
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:44 pm
I am going to exercise some creative license and in doing so, I have cut and paste a quote from the Reno Thread - it is short and a quick read if you have not already covered the material...
Basically the question was posed as to the trend toward a knees to chest inversion, arguably a tuck, and if it was a result of vaulters copying the current Olympian...
I am not specifically strong knowledge-wise in the historical styles, methods and techniques of specific vaulters over time; however, I am aware of some that have employed a similar style and technique successfully.
So I have posted a quick guided question following the quote to explore the issue, as it is my position that the question hits at the direction this thread has taken.
My Question is this...
(with respect to a Petrovian technique in the PUREST sense and a Tuck/Modified/Hybrid/Tuck)
With regard to the aforementioned, after take off, during inversion, specifically at the point in time of vertical hip/body extension...
Additionally, the response should take into account the TIMING of the aforementioned vertical extension and the initial point at which the pole begins to recoil...
?????
Basically the question was posed as to the trend toward a knees to chest inversion, arguably a tuck, and if it was a result of vaulters copying the current Olympian...
I am not specifically strong knowledge-wise in the historical styles, methods and techniques of specific vaulters over time; however, I am aware of some that have employed a similar style and technique successfully.
So I have posted a quick guided question following the quote to explore the issue, as it is my position that the question hits at the direction this thread has taken.
coachjvinson wrote:pgvirtual wrote:...but the advantages or disadvantages of covering the pole vs. doing a semi-tuck seem obscure to me. One of the claims in the Petrov model is that extending from the pike position towards the bar loads the pole in a positive way (it kind of tensions a bow). Why would it then be worse to load the pole some more from a lower Center of Mass position below the pole (tensions the bow some more)? One could argue that a larger extension is more muscular work, and thus adds more energy to the system?
This is a great question and the underlying concepts are foundational to revealing the advantages gleaned at this point in the vaulter pole system...
As well as pitfalls to avoid...
My Question is this...
(with respect to a Petrovian technique in the PUREST sense and a Tuck/Modified/Hybrid/Tuck)
coachjvinson wrote:What are the interrelationships between...
Timing...
and
Body Position...
With regard to the aforementioned, after take off, during inversion, specifically at the point in time of vertical hip/body extension...
Additionally, the response should take into account the TIMING of the aforementioned vertical extension and the initial point at which the pole begins to recoil...
?????