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Great posts CoachEric!

All that being said, I'm wary of any barbell strength program approach for vaulters. I find strength to be somewhat overrated with the pole vault since if your technique is spot-on, you will perpetually have your body in advantageous positions with good leverage on the pole and the vault will be al...

Fantastic site! Nice work CoachEric. Really is awesome. Content and descriptions are phenom. It's a bookmark in my web browser

It's happening already. Love Vermont support for PV. Our State's sports rep/authority for HS sports rules just let me know about this NFHS Track & Field change published yesterday. He deals with every HS sport in our state and yet let me know about this change the day it was published. Anyway......

Big Question -- Have the current design on the market been "tested" to the referenced standard list in the Final ASTM std for this type box collar? I would surely assume so. Pretty sure Gill has been in close contact with Jan and the ASTM people to insure they made the new collar to spec....

Big Question -- Have the current design on the market been "tested" to the referenced standard list in the Final ASTM std for this type box collar? I would surely assume so. Pretty sure Gill has been in close contact with Jan and the ASTM people to insure they made the new collar to spec....

You just haven't followed the years of testing that has already been done on this. There are no "just trust me's". This new collar by itself stays in place way better than basic collars. Simple solution for keeping it fixed in place. Super glue ( Gorilla super glue ) 2" wide industri...

Chris, This may sound like semantics, but there are no rules in any ASTM Standard Specification. That's for the rules making bodies. We just define stuff. You should become involved. We could use the help. Dr. McGinnis, aka VaultMD? I assume that's you right? I know the ASTM spec is not "rules...

I'll stop after this, but you are using the bottom arm WAY to much and cueing any athlete to extend the bottom arm as much as possible is not good communication in my book. There is already WAY to many athletes and coaches out there using and teaching bottom arm extension in the worst possible way. ...

Dr. Peter McGinnis sent me a very nice email explaining the wording. The diagram and wording is correct. I was not paying enough attention to some of the "terminology" used in places. There's a min and max spec for the wings and a min and max spec for the collar arms. I was getting the two...

Honestly, I don't follow one bit of what you said here with respect to a straight bottom arm and it's supposed benefits. I'd love to see video, a drawing or animation showing support of what you are saying. Here's two drawings I just made in Sketchup that are to exact scale of my height and grip wid...

VaultMD, Are you referring to this definition in regards to requiring wings or not? http://www.mansfieldathletics.com/images/temp/definition3.1.1.jpg If so, this whole section is just definitions of terminology, not rules themselves. I agree it's written oddly, but it's still just a definition, not ...