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USMC Vaulter, I have jumped on a 14' pole before, and i do know what its like.....i understand your point about having speed and force, but i am a experienced vaulter. Your making it seem absolutely Impossible to jump on a 14' 175, which its not, and i have jumped on it, and havnt got rejected or hu...

Ive been using UCS Spirit poles for 3 years, and i havent used any other. I even bought my own 14' pole to use in college. In my opinion the bend takes long enough for you to ride out.......UCS Spirit all the way

I kno its going to be hard, but i dont think its impossible to bend a 175 14'1".......it may take awhile

well i started to hold right at the top, right under the pink label, but my confidence failed, so i held almost a foot down, where i would normally hold on the 165, and i started to progress on that pole.......im really sore in my upper body, and i think im going to eventually work all the way up th...

Bending the pole gets easier as you go along, you just have to focus on doing it. As you raise your right arm (assuming your right handed), extend your left arm and push out and up at the same time.....force the bend to happen. It took me about 4 weeks to start to bend a pole, but once you get that ...

Ive been using a UCS Spirit 13' 165 pole for the past season and get pretty good bend, so i decided to move up to a UCS 14'1" 175 pole......its much stiffer than i thought. I also bought it brand new, so does it need to be broken in? Or is it that its 10lbs heavier and not broken in that i cant bend...

After reviewing my tapes of practice, i have ALOT of trouble getting my whole body veritcle.......i get inverted to the "rock back" position but my body never gets verticle.

Is there anything i can do to improve upon this? Any drills, excercises, etc.????

kick your feet strait up in the air and try to get your hips over your hands, as you do this pull down the pole.....this will in turn lift your but over the bar

a friend of mine is jumping on a 140 pole and he weighs 155, i keep telling him to switch poles but he refuses to. He bends the pole a bit, holding about 2 feet from the top....how dangerous/stupid is that?

This may sound like a dumb question, but where is the highest you can hold on the top of the pole? I was told you cannot hold at the very end, because the weight of the pole would drop down 10lbs.

Im a third year vaulter with a 11' pr. I have my steps and jump down, but once i reach the rock back position, i dont turn my body/hips and go over the bar with my stomach. Is there anything i can do to improve my technique?