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Is it better to arrive at take off at 9.53 m/s decelerating or 9.26 m/s accelerating ? (for exemple)

I guess 9.53 !

Romain Mesnil make 5.81m easly on his first attempt in Bron (FRANCE), have 3 close attempts at 5.92m... Full Result: 1 5m81 MESNIL Romain 2 5m65 FAVRETTO Vincent 3 5m60 DOSSEVI Damiel 4 5m50 GUIGON Nicolas 5 5m40 SOLER Joel 6 5m40 FORTIN Fabrice 6 5m40 TROMP Xavier 8 5m40 HOMO Sebastien 9 5m30 DURAN...

Hi guy's, I am a French Pole Vaulter (PB 5.75) , I do not have jump in La Martinique this year but I've jump there before. I think I have already met you there Russ in 2003, and met you last year in the Lille Metropole couple meeting in France (we were jump in couple with girls vaulter) when you hur...

This is just a little survey to know what type of training did you use to increase you pole vault running speed down the runway ?
and the other for consistancy or running posture ?

(give as much detail as you can distance / rep / intensity and with or without a pole...)

I think you should not using this drill for advanced pole vaulter, because of the nature of the swing with a stiff pole is very different from a flexing pole. With stiff pole you should use the double pendulum technique, relaxing the leading knee and drop both legs up ; unlike with flexing pole you ...