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Dutch pole vault trainer Jaap van der Plaat gave me an old HI-8 video tape of the day that Bubka jumped his World Record in Donetsk.

Because of a lack of time now just the video of the World Record jump. Very soon the whole meet in Donetsk on feb 21 1993 !! Recorded from the best possible place in the stadium.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ34Pc-1dBA

you will forever be my hero haha

It was very hard to go back from 40 minutes of video to just 10 minutes.

I've tried to give an idea of the day that pole vault history was made.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGyzPNXI_U

CB wrote:It was very hard to go back from 40 minutes of video to just 10 minutes.

I've tried to give an idea of the day that pole vault history was made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGyzPNXI_U

Thanks for the video. It's very nice to see an impression of that entire day including all the preparations & celebrations. Interesting to see that Bubka's first two WR attempts weren't close at all and then he makes the perfect jump in his third & final attempt. On the scoreboard it said that he also made 5.90 only in his third attempt.

Does anyone happen to know Bubka's entire jump series of that day?
From what I could see from the video I've got this:

That straight pole drill Bubka did in the longer version of the movie was amazing! Especially if he was holding that high on a 17' foot pole... holding had to be around 4.60 or 4.75! Unreal, and a great model to look at as to how to move a straight pole to vertical!

WHAT!! I've been trying to get Jaap to give a bunch of his old stuff on digital for years. You wanna see some crazy vaulting get him to upload some old vids of Rian Boitha. Holy SH....

I've got three tapes from Jaap.. I only looked at the part of the tape about the event in Donjetsk (about 45 minutes) because of my interest in the World Record vid. If there is more interest in old stuff (beginning of the nineties) you got to be fast, because the tapes are going back to Zoetermeer on Sunday. I already gave them to an athlete of mine who is training there on Sunday. So then I’ll have to ask him not to give the tapes back to Jaap.

Not to put anything against the reccord, but i was wondering about raised up runways. Does this raised runway have a seperate type of rubber runway that is rolled over it? Because from the ones I have seen, the box is made into the wood and then the rubber is layed over it. So depending on how this your rubber runway is, could you could have an extra quarter of an inch in height?

VaultPurple wrote:Not to put anything against the reccord, but i was wondering about raised up runways. Does this raised runway have a seperate type of rubber runway that is rolled over it? Because from the ones I have seen, the box is made into the wood and then the rubber is layed over it. So depending on how this your rubber runway is, could you could have an extra quarter of an inch in height?

If the bar is properly measured, this is taken into consideration.

im not talking about the bar to the mat, Im talking about the mat to the bottom of the box. If the quarter inch mat sits higher than the front of the box then it is deeper. I think someone stated in another thread that 1inch depth extra in the box made you hold 4 inches higher? in that case that extra quarter of an inch would add an inch in hand height.

Surprised nobody mentioned ' peg-length' yet... I think it was the 5.90 third attempt make where he rattled the bar pretty good.. but he did make the 6.15 bar clean.. Its clear that Bubka made 6.15 clean, but the bars leading up to that WR jump is debatable...

This is the first time I've seen this 6.15 WR vault. Very nice!

Bubka's trail leg is really good in this vault (an understatement).

He not only fully stretches it back to that "elastic" position, but unless I'm imagining things, it appears that he lifts it back/up (or holds it) even further - a la Bryde Bend technique.

I can't claim that I lifted my trail leg back any better than this! If I did, it wasn't by much!

All I know is that I did it by INTENT, and there's no indication in any descriptions of Bubka's technique that I've ever read that he PURPOSELY moved his trail leg back/up further than just fully stretching it.

Can anyone clarify this?

But by intent or not, you see the blazing rotational speed he gets as he whips his trail leg thru, and how early he inverts?

Kirk