Stiff pole prs???

[KYLE ELLIS]

My coach has been making us start over and go back to basics stiff poles and close grip vaults from about 50-55ft. Getting old but is really helping! What is the highest you have ever gripped stiff poling and made it in? And whats the highest you have ever stiff poled?

[KYLE ELLIS]

From 50-55 ft, the highest I gripped is 13ft and I stiff poled 12 dropping my grip down to 12. My coach said his best ever grip was 13-10 and I think hes jumped around 13 to 13-6 stiff poling( his coach at ou was J.D. Martin the current wr holder in stiff poling). My friend Brandon also did 12 ft. Before working w/ coach my stiff pole pr was 10ft!

[PVJunkie]

Well..............top of my top hand at 12'6" from 47 feet with a swing up (not just gettin in to the pit). This is a height biased question. I am only 5'8" and the taller you are the higher you can grip!!

[KYLE ELLIS]

True but my stud coach one of the best technicians ever gripped 13-10 in his prime. Just getting in no swing. Hes 5-8 also. Im average at 6ft.

[mcminkz05]

highest iv ever stiff-poled is 10'ish gripping 10-8. lol, i dunt stiff-pole nemore, and i hate to say it but havnt made a whole lotta height progress since i did..

[KYLE ELLIS]

Yeah I hardly evered stiff poled. But when he taught me the proper take off I could sit over 10 and ended up pring a week later by 2 ft. It takes alot of patience but it really can help your vault, Ill definately be doing it alot in pre season next year!

[mcminkz05]

lol, i can sit over 10', and thats bout literally how i go over it..

[KYLE ELLIS]

You probably do what I was doing. I used to try and get back and upside down and all that, you cant . Stiff poling you have to stay down on it, keeping hips back and then aim your feet over the bar, with some timing involved it works!

[wayupthere]

I dunno never really tried stiff vaulting heights after I learned to bend the pole. My grandpa bamboo vaulted 13-10 in college and was high school state champ with 12-4. I just dont understand how you would even get the pole vertical holdin that heigh unless u could jump and run like an animal. Isn't the bamboo vault record like 15'?

[KYLE ELLIS]

Well Im a 12s 100m and a 5-6 hj, its just getting that attack staying tall, extending fully at the plant and getting your heal leaving the ground timed up w/ the pole hitting the back of the box, all this while keeping your angle- not / (the angle- is for us drive vaulters). This all can help your real vault immensily sp? "You can tell about someones real vault by the way they stiff pole"

[Vaulterchick88]

we're still working on the whole pole bend thing, but with a stiff pole i gripped about 10'5" and went 8'0"

[OAKPV2004]

I hate stiff poleing, I learned to use poles I could get to bend from 2 steps. One two. and was able to jump 10' from a 14' run, that was a while ago but it had bend. I don't see how you can carry over the same technique, there two diffrent types. Use the bend to your advantage.