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Hey, John's mom!!! Happy mother's day. Thanks for all of your support during John's HS years, those were great times. I am not sure John and Chris and Joe could have jumped without the pb&j. Speaking of Joe, his little bro, Zach, won the GMC with a 1' pr (13') that's 6 years in a row. Princeton ...

Chris and I (his coach) learned a valuable lesson during his junior year in high school, you can over warm up and leave your best vaults in the warm up. We made a warm up rule his senior year, when coach said stop, we stopped. Generaly loosened up with some pop ups then checked for the step about 5x...

To the origional poster...I coach and run off home competitions. At the beginning of the season we vault the boys & girls together...start the bar at 5' and the boys enter when the bar reaches a entry height they desire. The down side it that there may be considerable time between warm-up and ju...

Our top pad is very dusty and the foam needs replacement. We have a UCS 2100. Does anyone know where I can buy foam to replace our origional foam?

How's this for a bad weekend + Former vaulters Princeton HS OH - Sat 5/15 John Russell (18' .5"pr) - NH MAC Champs Chris Smith (17' 1"pr) - NH CUSA Champs Current vaulters Princeton HS OH - District Meet today 5/17 Eric Keyes (13' 6" pr Jr) - NH District Champs - may have had a world record for heig...

I have seen several pole breaks and heard several more. All injuries I have witnessed have been minor. All breaks I have seen have resulted in the vaulter landing on his back in the pit. IMO, the most dangerous place to be on a pole break is the official or the helpers, or anywhere around the pit......

I'm a dad and coach, so I will tell you my approach. 1st, I was a distance runner but do a fair job coaching the vault...Chris Smith & John Russell are two of mine. Nice to see the college coaches fixing my mistakes. My wife works so I always took my kids with me to practice over spring breaks. ...

Chris was 5' 2" when he went 12' in 10th grade. I think he was 5'4" when he went 13' and not much more when he went 15' 7". He is 5' 6" now at 17' 1", am I right Chris? If you have never seen a "Not good at being tall" vaulter jump the heights Chris does, it is a real treat. Makes the jump look even...

OK...looks like the big 2 are the odds on favorites...so who is in the 3 slot? Being his former coach I got to go with Russell, but the top two need to be on to beat him. He tends to rise to the ocassion(pun intended) and has more confidence this year. The 18+ jump is ready. Go John!!!! Kira too!!! ...

I coach high school vault but was a dull and boring distance runner. I have had some success, but the one thing I can not tell my vaulters is how the vaults feels or what sensations to be looking for.....any pointers I could give my vaulters for the feel of the vault?

Let's see... no school Friday or Monday = 4 day weekend, daughter with HS band in Orlando, son with grandparents, somebody to cover my Sunday School lesson, tickets to the Cincinnati Symphony, room in upscale downtown hotel, lovely wife....yea, V-Day was good!!!!!

Chris is right RELAX, in addition....don't practice NOT planting, Jomrus and I did that for a week before his 1st state meet, he got really good at not jumping! Get out the slide box and get that run down. Take a deep breath and bring it and jump it. You may need to get away from the vault for awhil...