left handed vaulters
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 3:17 pm
okay, how many of you vault left, how many right, and how many can do both for fun?
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 6:07 pm
funny enough, i vault left, but i'm right-handed...
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 9:51 pm
There are no left-handers - only right-handers and wrong-handers 
seriously though it doesn't matter how you look at them live or on video left-handed vaulters just don't look "right". I don't understand why - left handed pitchers and hitters look perfectly natural during baseball telecasts. Even left-handed golfers look alright. There's just something odd about left-handed vaulters. Of course that means that I have about 6 different lefties that I'm trying to coach right now. Serves me right for whining eh?
seriously though it doesn't matter how you look at them live or on video left-handed vaulters just don't look "right". I don't understand why - left handed pitchers and hitters look perfectly natural during baseball telecasts. Even left-handed golfers look alright. There's just something odd about left-handed vaulters. Of course that means that I have about 6 different lefties that I'm trying to coach right now. Serves me right for whining eh?
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 10:24 pm
Right handed pr: 4.60m
Left handed pr: 3.00m (straight-poled)
Other talents: I can also switch hit in baseball and golf, but even as a righty, have twice as much power or bat/club-speed hitting lefty.
And yes Gus, all lefties are "wrong-handed!" I also have coached and do coach several of them, and they all look wrong! Many of them seem to run with their torso turned to the left, yet righties don't run with their torso's turned right?!? Seems to create an unbalanced stride in their approach.
For coaches: if you ever get frustrated with beginners not planting correctly, not being aggressive enough, or just learning very slowly, try teaching yourself to do whatever you're trying to teach them to do, with the opposite hand. You'll feel just like a beginner and get some valuable insight into their learning curve!
Left handed pr: 3.00m (straight-poled)
Other talents: I can also switch hit in baseball and golf, but even as a righty, have twice as much power or bat/club-speed hitting lefty.
And yes Gus, all lefties are "wrong-handed!" I also have coached and do coach several of them, and they all look wrong! Many of them seem to run with their torso turned to the left, yet righties don't run with their torso's turned right?!? Seems to create an unbalanced stride in their approach.
For coaches: if you ever get frustrated with beginners not planting correctly, not being aggressive enough, or just learning very slowly, try teaching yourself to do whatever you're trying to teach them to do, with the opposite hand. You'll feel just like a beginner and get some valuable insight into their learning curve!
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 11:10 pm
actually, i HAVE seen some right-handers vault with their torso twisted...
and maybe its just a right-handers thing...that lefties look weird...or should i say wrong-ies? lol
and maybe its just a right-handers thing...that lefties look weird...or should i say wrong-ies? lol
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:12 pm
Aviendha wrote:funny enough, i vault left, but i'm right-handed...
some guy that goes to roosevelt does that too, he's really funny to watch at practice because he jumps of the wrong foot sometimes.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:16 pm
lonestar wrote:Right handed pr: 4.60m
Left handed pr: 3.00m (straight-poled)
Other talents: I can also switch hit in baseball and golf, but even as a righty, have twice as much power or bat/club-speed hitting lefty.
And yes Gus, all lefties are "wrong-handed!" I also have coached and do coach several of them, and they all look wrong! Many of them seem to run with their torso turned to the left, yet righties don't run with their torso's turned right?!? Seems to create an unbalanced stride in their approach.
tee-hee, last year our best guy and best girl vaulter were both left handed, so the guys would have staight pole competions where brandon would vault right handed and everyone else would vault left handed, it was actually quite amusing, becuase their body would be use to turnig one way and they'd try to go another.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:49 pm
Was that Malphrus. I coached him his senior year. Thank god he understood that when I said left leg, right arm, he knew I ment the opposite.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:33 pm
Robert schmitt wrote:Was that Malphrus. I coached him his senior year. Thank god he understood that when I said left leg, right arm, he knew I ment the opposite.
was what malphrus?
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 2:37 pm
I had a senior moment and thought you were the girl that vaulted at central wash. I was reffering to robert malphrus a lefty that went thier his freshman year two seasons ago.
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 2:40 pm
Robert schmitt wrote:I had a senior moment and thought you were the girl that vaulted at central wash. I was reffering to robert malphrus a lefty that went thier his freshman year two seasons ago.
CWUVaultgrl goes to Central... Vaulterchick88 is still in HS.
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 2:42 pm
Yeah I finally caught on to that.