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THE ELUSIVE BAR 2nd Edition By Bruce Caldwell
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This book is over 34 years old and still has info that can help you vault higher today!
Including the way to bend the vaulting pole with the swing, which today is called the free take-off
THE ELUSIVE BAR 2nd Edition By Bruce Caldwell
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"Including the way to bend the vaulting pole with the swing, which today is called the free take-off".

That could be confusing for some readers - even tho it is true that with the free take off you do not try to bend the pole before you leave the ground and the bend does indeed come when you are whip swinging on the pole. But the bend comes from a combination of the forces applied at take off and those in the second phase, the whip swing--- not merely from the latter.

In my book and my coaching
We talk about how each phase is interdependent on each other. The run into the plant and the plant into the take off and the take off into the swing. Power from the take-off is stored into the swing rather than the pole. Which implies that we are not suggesting a flat or leapless take-off which cannot transfer energy efficiently.
Leaping into the swing and swinging into the swing-back is what bends the pole.
A free take-off in my opinion is one without the resistance of the pole to kill the swing or reduce energy transfer.
A free-take-off is one that is with power of the run blended to an angle that stores energy in to the vault or the swing. That energy is then transfered to the pole. Yes the pole will bend at take-off some what however moving with the vaulter upward.
see page 15 of my 1972 book for a full explaination.
Bruce
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