6.00 Meter Club (and other Petrov Charts)

[rainbowgirl28]

Updated with Hooker's mark!

http://www.polevaultpower.com/6mclub.php

[Scott Go Pre]

I don't know if you have posted this or not, but here is Maxim Tarasov jumping 6.00m
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1EwqxKPxOI

[Scott Go Pre]

I'm not quite 100% sure of the authencity of this video, but it claims to be Hooker clearing 6.00m in Perth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiMEw7J1Q4

[spike gibeault]

http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/flotrackr/profile.php?u=37755&v=blog

Steve hookers blog

6.00m miss- 520/11.9 Stands 80 - Best run and take off of the day. I was about 10cm further out on my take off than the other jumps, the pole was mush, blew into the bar hard.

6.00m miss- 520/11.5 Stands 60- Run through, I think the occasion got to me a bit and i dropped my pole way too early and started over striding on the runway.

6.00m clear- 520/11.5 Stands 60- Solid jump. Not the best take off of the day but saved it with timing on the second part of the jump. Touched bar on way down but it stayed, perfect position fo stands would have been 55.

I stopped jumping after this clearance, being the first comp of the year we didn't want to push it to much and I'd already done three more jumps than the six we had planned on doing.

The result was a little surprising being the first comp of the year and considering the health problems that I dealt with during December. What I take away from this is that you can still perform if your not able to train at 100% as long as you focus on the things that really matter.

In this case I was only allowed to train for an hour a day through January but I made my focus 2 quality vault sessions a week with everything else (weights, strides and recovery) geared towards me feeling 100% for those vault sessions. I found the time constraints really made me focus on the quality of every single jump, aiming not to waste a single effort. I think that quality was reflected in my comp on Sunday.

Now I'm setting myself for a second comp in Perth before travelling to Melbourne for the WAT meet on the 21st of February, our Olympic trials on the 29th of February in Brisbane and the World indoors in Valencia...exciting times.

Steve

[lonestar]

Brits' 6m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MeM_kyiMjw&NR=1

[altius]

In my view both Tarasov and Brits had at least as much potential as Bubka -but their technique let them down. In Maxim's case the problem occurred as he moved into inversion covering the pole and with Ockert it was the whole vault as he had a poor technical model.

That should stir a few things up.

[lonestar]

In my view both Tarasov and Brits had at least as much potential as Bubka -but their technique let them down. In Maxim's case the problem occurred as he moved into inversion covering the pole and with Ockert it was the whole vault as he had a poor technical model.

That should stir a few things up.

I agree.

Alan, one thing that has always been noticeable to me in comparing Max and Sergei, and Dima is the position of their chest in relation to their hands. It always seemed to me that Bubka was more dynamic about leading the vault with his chest to where you could draw a plumb-line from his left hand to his forehead to his chest, where Max and Dima always seemed to be well behind that line with their head and chest.

I know Roman has talked about excessive chest penetration as being passive and a mistake, but it seems to me like it would create a more elastic stretch-reflex and thus a faster swing with more amplitude to get ahead of the recoil and cover the pole.

Thoughts???

[mjb]

If Brits or Tarasov had the world record right now would we be talking about the Tarasov or Brits model? Maybe they also had the ability to jump just as high but we have to remember that these are guys that are 6'6. We can say that if they had the Petrov model maybe they could have been just as good, but Petrovs training consists of so much gymnastics that it can at times be difficult for a tall man, as it happened to Victor Chischiakov. He was not able to handle it out there for very long. This is a man that was on 5.40 poles at one time... My belief is that every elite vaulter or any vaulter period has their own model. Not one vaulter has the same jump as another. It is nice to have a model like Bubka to try and compare our jump to, but the reality is that no one will ever jump like Bubka. Vitaly said it himself "there is only one Bubka". So yes, these other guys had the abilty to jump higher but I don't feel it's because of their technical model.