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Don't worry after awhile you will get used to it

When I first started bending the pole I was scared and it took me awhile to get used to it...Now I embrace it

Who here wears a helmet when they vault? --do you wear one for practice and meets, or just meets? last year towards the end of the year I happened to find a helmet in our track shed and decided I would wear it. Others on my team gave me grief, but I didn't care. It seemed to give me a sense of safet...

State was this past weekend and i didn't mess around with my run and I got 10'9" and placed 8th. (I hold about a foot from the top of a 12'6" pole) Yesterday was the first day we have had a session vaulting this summer and I was getting over a 13' bungee with a 5 left run(touching it of co...

I was wondering if getting a longer run would help get higher heights...Currently I use a 5 step run and have gotten 10' in a meet. I have one week until state and was trying to figure out things that would help get a better height. I do not lose speed and I have a fast speed.

What should I do?

Currently I am holding about 2.5' away from the top the pole and it is a 13'3" pole, and I can get some bend out of it...would slowly increasing how high my grip height help get me higher?

So today at practice I did the swing up and pulled and got 9'3"...Hopefully I keep improving

Ok, so I have this problem...After you get inverted and right before you turn do you pole yourself up then push while you are turning?

Currently I am getting 8'6" and can get inverted but I don't know if I should be pulling then pushing...It's the start of my second season as a vaulter.