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oooooooooooopppppppppppppppsssssss. sorrry, i forget stuff b/c i love to practice a lot. i took a month and a half off at the end of summer, and for the first 2 months of the school year, i only worked on my stride, run, lots of bungee runs, pole runs and lifting weights and what not. then my coach ...

i usually improve the most right after season is over and it really helps for next season if you can get your coach to practice in the summer and pre-season. see if your coach is willing to, or try to find a local club that practices in the summer. weight lifting is also good, sprinting, anything th...

thanks everyone .. .i think i really just need to find the correct transition and probably adjust some things, as Mr Caldwell has suggested. . . thats what practice is for

what brand of poles do you guys use? for what step, height, etc, etc? do you like essx or spirits more? which rollover better? just wondering b/c i jump on spirits for the smaller part of my series and i love them, but when i go to my larger poles, essx, they seem to just mush out and not roll over ...

i got onto a bigger pole that i had never vaulted on before, and it was 7 inches longer too. i was pretty excited because i was trying for a new pr. well, i realized that i had totally overstrided my run and i would eat crap if i went up, so i didnt. well, the pole stayed on the cross bar, like a T,...

well, i did some calling around and i found out that you are allowed to sign a statement of intent to register without messing up any chances of signing a national letter of intent with another school . .. so if anyone else was wondering, there you go, btw, i called the national letter of intent peo...

im a senior in high school and i am trying to decide where to go to college. :dazed: if i sign a statement of intent to register (SIR) and then later another college offers me a scholarship(for vaulting), will this in any way affect my ability to sign a national letter of intent(NLI) with another sc...

hahah, hey kira. . .yeah i was pretty sure i got 5th at arcaida, but 3rd is alright, i guess, even if there were like 6 of us tied at it! hahahah

bounce onto your upperback and have your legs perpendicular to your body, like an L. then try to whip your legs like you would while vaulting over behind your head. you can push off the trampoline with your hands to simulate the pole push off while your legs are going up over your head and you try t...

thanks . . . i thougt it might have had something to do with a scoring meet v. a non-scoring meet

when do they count misses before your final height?
im a little confused: at arcaida they tied everyone that jumped 12 in 3rd place, disregarding misses at 12 and previous heights, and at mt sac, they counted the misses on previous heights as well as final heights. . .