
I just thank whoever, that I didn't really need to know any of that information/knowledge/wisdom to coach in the track and field wilderness of Adelaide.

If he had vaulted higher than 10.5 feet, he would have known that it's IMPOSSIBLE for your hip to make contact with your top arm elbow!
Standing vertically (or fully inverted), the distance from my elbow to my hip bone is ~4", and I'm about the same height as Bubka.
Even if you quibbled and said that 4" is "close enough", it is NOT a good visual cue for a vaulter to focus on - it's merely a single frame of a vid - a transitionary position - that you pass THRU.
To say that this is a good visual cue[/b], you need at least one credible vaulter that tells you that. Visual cues are decided by VAULTERS - not by amateur biomechanics who simply watch vids without talking to the athletes in the vid.
Also make sure your hip makes contact with your top arm elbow. ANOTHER FEEL CUE, by the way!
There is not any good VISUAL cue for a vaulter in this position
Is it appropriate to try to look up that far from the inverted-I to your groin? I would think it would be more appropriate to have your head straight down vertical under your body at that point? So that raises the question how then can you look at the bottom hand from that position then? Well you can't!
There is not any good VISUAL cue for a vaulter in this position. The MENTAL cue (based on my own personal experience, as depicted in the pic that I provided) is that he should feel his hips rising vertically, along the chord of the pole. This is accomplished by all the good hard work in the bottom half of the vault - the downswing and upswing but especially the downswing (to the chord)
PVDaddy wrote: If the top arm is the chord of the pole, does it not make sense to always invert as far as you can? Is there any danger in doing that as long as you do not let go of the pole? Should that not always be the goal? If you don't make it that far you could still make the turn and flyaway. Do you think most vaulters mistakenly begin flyaway to early out of fear?
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