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This is great! Keep the effort up guys! 💪😊

First comment, wow. Nice glutes on the one in the grey pants.

Whatever you do, make sure to never give up

Good stuff!! 👍🏻

Ok correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't a more gradual pole drop be beneficial rather than just instantly dropping the pole at the end?

that's genius! why didn't my coach ever do this with me?!

I am really struggling with it still but I’m being patient

Do you have any of the sky systems videos. I used to go to Jan's camps in PA. Some of the best memories of my life. We used to sit and watch the sky systems videos at night. I think I was actually in one for about a second. Would love to see them again.

Both are terrific athletes. Mondo for the W though.

Thanks, this helped a lot

I ate some sweet tart ropes before my last meet and pr by 20 feet

It would be nice for a group of people with your status confront the national high school organization about this rule. It is an absolute terrible rule. I fight it every single year in my club. All year long I have people jumping on the proper pole according to their technique and skill level. Many many times it is below their weight. But they jump high and they jump safe. It is dangerous when they try to switch during the season to a pole that is too big!

Great point Jan

I am a pole vaulter I can do these drills consistently and I have even gone to a full turn but I have issues when doing a full run through I jump better off my 7 step rather than my 13 or even 15 step what can I do to fix this because I have a lot more energy with my longer approaches?

such a cool edit

I bequeath this the undertaker vault

That man is a LEGEND!

Another thing that wasn't even talked about in this video is that pole manufacturers aren't even held to the same standard as far as finding the flex number. One company can use a 50 pound weight, another can use a 55 pound weight, another can use a 60 pound weight, and another can use a weight that at 25 kg which is close to 55 pounds, but not exactly. Then you have a company like Altius that measures the flex in inches, while all the other companies do it in cm's. The people at the top think all poles from 5 different companies that are labeled 12' - 150 pounds are the same exact pole, and they're not even close to being the same pole. I guess it's not a requirement to pass math or science class to make rules about pole vault. I never enjoyed math, but even I can figure out that things aren't adding up.

Run into this a lot as a high school Vault coach. Thankfully I have poles in many respectable areas regarding weight. But I also never start a beginning vaulter on a pole with a heavier weight rating. Fundamentals first then bigger poles will come. I think it’s just a money grab I think pole companies are involved in this too so it forces high schools to fork up money to get “needed” poles for their vaulters.

The Jason colwick. Jason was a serious athlete and could pull it off. I jumped with him and he actually was trying to keep his right knee driving

I went to u dub in 2012 and jumped 17’6 and the answer is. Who cares what pole it is if your coach tells you to trap that pole and jump you hold on and go for it.

Ya it’s the 5 meter pole 14.4 flex number of course. And almost all pole vaulters are on to small of pole. That’s why you see the sag to no pop off the top. No energy bending the pole to the launch. I was 185 jumping on a 210 lbs weighted pole.

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Go Bridget!❤

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THE TRASH TALKING NEEDS TO STOP. I HAVE NOT SEEN IT AT HS LEVEL BUT WHAT HAVE SEEN IS STILL THE RACIAL NEGATIVE OVERTUNE TOWARRD POLE VAULTERS OF COLR. BUT I HAVE NOTICE AFTER COVID A DFIFFERENT ATTITUDE. MORE FRIENDLIER. WE ARE ALL 1 TEAM IF U LOVE POLE VAULTING. sorry about caps yes was yelling at 1st. trash talking...

Pole vaulting is like hockey only the schools that will invest in the equipment giving the kids a chance to experience sports that in the poor HS never have as chance... I am the local area volunteer Pole Vaulting in Lee county southwest Florida. my project has been Dunbar HS for 6yrs now trying to develop Pole Vaulters. a low income school area..love the insight on the video...

The MG wasn’t a “Midget.” There wouldn’t have been room for you in his car since Steve drove Frank Shorter to Kenny Moore’s house and was on his way back down the hill. For such a “good friend” you know nothing about the details of the accident. Maybe you weren’t THAT good of a friend.

Great podcast!

Huge fan of Kat! Pole Vault queen!!

I vaulted with (against) Jan in High School. I was nowhere near as good. Watching him in 1968...it was obvious his career was going to the top. The Munich Pole Vault fiasco was a terrible, political moment. The first time an American did not win the Olympic Pole Vault. But, it got worse. The US basketball team (also never defeated for Gold in the Olympics) had its Gold ripped of by totally bogus officiating. Finally, the 1972 Munich Games was the site of one of the first highly visible, deadly Islamo-terrorist attacks. A group called "Black September" (PLO) killed and took Israeli athletes hostage before they were all killed at the Munich airport.

Weren't fibre-glass poles first used because of the lightness of their weight ?

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At my place Bapva we are 70 % girls 30 % boys 😮

Gotta have that dorsaiflexion

Price?

Great explanation of two ways to get the job done. Oftentimes, which way works best for a vaulter is based upon their physical make up, athleticism, and personal athletic style.

It’s good to see the “cattle gate” continue on as a training device.

This is great!

Oh don’t get me started

We ain’t gonna act like didn’t just do the smoothest head turn edit 💀

I've heard Bob Seagren's story of this banning, but I didn't know Jan's poles were banned only one hour before the preliminaries. What a shock that must have been!

I hope Jan writes the second book and discusses his life with Pre extensively. Hoping.

I'm a year younger than Jan. I jumped on bamboo at home, steel, Swedish steel, and aluminum in junior high in the Phila area. I recall everything Jan is talking about here. As a senior, I got a Thermoflex (red pole) and a black Cata-pole to finish the season. Steel pole vaulting was sliding the bottom hand up and two legs swinging together from the ground up. Switching to fiberglass from a steel pole meant jumping the same way without sliding the hand up. Jan said a bamboo pole would bend a little. It will. I also jumped 11'3" on the Swedish steel pole, and it also flexed hard and fast, surprisingly, on that jump.

I bought 8 poles last year for my beginners' program. 11' series 90,100,110,120,130 and 11'6, 130, 135, and 12' 140, and my three girls barely made it through the season on those poles. The first five were pre-owned, and the last three were new, all Essex. The total cost was $3000. I will need 10 more poles this year, at least just for the girls. My three boys graduated last year. One made the State Champs jumping 13'. This is an expensive sport, in which the clubs are keeping it going. Without them, there would be no pole vault. I hope to add a few poles to the lot, and we'll definitely rent again to fill in the gaps.

Great advice!!

Good advice and wisdom.

I have this same problem, I was able to think past it when I realized that most people can’t do this

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