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Hmm, maybe I'll try some of that stuff =D

I wear ankle socks the whole day, but when the meet comes I put on long socks on my left foot. That's pretty much all I do.

I can't get inverted either, haha nobody on our team can. Anyhow, we do those drills where you put the spongee rope higher a little higher than your PR and then you hold a little lower on the pole. As you go up, try to touch the rope with both your feet. That's the only drill I can think of that you...

Haha, I would agree most of the time. However, this was the last meet before league finals this season, so I kind of wanted to do some good.

Alright, thanks for the tips!

My shoulder muscles have been hurting the past day or two and I'm afraid it won't be going away for awhile. I have a meet tomorrow and I was wondering about how many hours before should I take the ibuprofen? Thanks for the help.

8'6"... I'm a little embarrassed to say it, haha. This is my first season vaulting though, I've got another season before I'm out of HS. I'm still having trouble getting inverted, blegh.

Our school competes in Almont League. Our coach polevaulted for our school a few years back and he's been coaching wrestling. He just started coaching pole vault for us. Right now all I've got down in vaulting other than the take off/plant is to sort of get my feet up (not so much my waist) and push...

I compete in Southern California in one of the weaker leagues in CIF. There are about two or three other schools in our league with polevault teams, primarily because the other schools don't have regulation size pits. This is my junior year, and we recently upgraded our pits to a little bigger than ...