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Carolina Extreme, Tim, DJ, Master all contribute excellent points. I would like to reinforce Carolina's disclaimer and simply say that clearing the bar can be "ugly" but when great exponents of pole vault clear extreme heights they usuall have exploited the biomechanical principles (biolog...

In the study by: Arampatzis A., Schade F., Bruggemann G-P. (2004) Effect of the pole-human interaction on pole vaulting performance. Journal of Biomechanics , Vol 37, pp. 1353 - 1360. Figure five clearly shows that in both male and female pole vaulters it is clearly possible to add additional energy...

Because I am in a land far away, in another galaxy almost, I am disappointed I will miss Coach Baggett's clinic on gymnastics sequencing for pole vaulter. The clear hip circle to handstand is even more relevant for pole vaulting than giant circles backwards. The timing and musculoskeletal cordinatio...

Achtungpv Is Correct. The gymnast swings back and forth to generate the energy required to swing to handstand above the bar. From a stationary hang below the bar it is impossible to get to that handstand without the gymnast doing useful mechanical work by using muscle effort. This enegy input source...

Good example Master! The muscular work done by the vaulter can and does indeed impart energy from the "kick - whip - swing" in the first phase of the pole support after the takeoff. When the transfer of the angular momentum from the swinging lower limb is timed and coordinated with a pelvi...

I would like to make some posts on this topic. I have material in a word document and want to send it to this topic forum. Can anyone advise me on how to do this? The document contains some photos, graphs and tables(originally in Xcel) which do not want to copy and paste into this format. The words ...

Sprinting whilst the arms support a vaulting pole is not at all the same problem as arms -free (unloaded) sprinting. In free sprinting the arms perform a reciprocating action and play a role in counter -balancing the tendency for the athlete's COM(centre of mass) to be slightly displaced laterally i...

Readers should note that in his statement above, Altius missed out the crucial word JUNIOR (ie IAAF Under 20 age group) in the fourth paragraph. They might also be interested to know that the top ten male performances by Adelaide athletes in the past fifteen years are 6.00m, 5.90m, 5.80m, 5.60m 5.51...