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5 December, Aulnay, France- Renaud Lavillenie cleared 5.82 for an indoor personal record. He made it on a first attempt and then raised the bar to 6.02 and was not successful. He competes again 24 January in Bordeaux.

Lavillenie 5.82
Dossevi 5.61
Clavier 5.52
Galfione 5.40

Kate Dennison was top woman with 4.19

not bad for a guy that was just doing 1-4 lefts a few weeks ago

His jump at 5,82:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSvlRsWfNM

He then tried 6,02:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=540eAkkcNYw

VaultLove wrote:Galfione 5.40

Beast.

La perche aux étoiles in 10 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrceK89EmA

Its like a blur... did someone get that runway speed!

But I am glad to see that the day of the micro vaulter may be returning! (ie. Dial, Huffman, Duplantis type guys). And I think within 10 years we might see a Frenchmen sporting the new pole vault world record. He's what 23? Give this guy some time to develop some more strength and it will be interesting to see what he can do. Bubka gained about 15lb between his first 6m jump and his world record, and it took Duplantis an extra 25lb of muscle to go from 18' to 19'. I know relative strength is what its about, 5'9 150lb is pretty light.

How about Galfione? He looked pretty good for a guy nearly 40 and just playing around with the vault.

The 5.40 of Jean Galfione

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omxnT7XqAQQ

Interview with Jean Galfione after his third attempt at 5.62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lci_T9U1a0g

He is organizing a competition in Tignes (beautiful ski resort in France) on Wednesday 27 January and in Paris on 2 March

http://www.perchefrance.com/default.asp?p=pet&s=public/pelitetour_cal.inc

Not the ideal situation to begin your run "in"

good morning,

i wrote the following several weeks ago from another post about his technique..

but never got around to posting...

good morning,

love everything he is doing.... from the start, to grip, to pole carry.. etc..

look at the ones (one) where the speed, stride frequency, posture, the takeoff point, bar clearance “down the middle” and even where he hit at the yellow cone (6 step) compared to all jumps…. and you will find some one (and a coach) that is doing things extremely good.. as good as anyone ever...

there are NO "flaws' that can be attributed to athlete or coach…

So I would like to suggest we NOT help anyone put a “doubt” in this jumpers mind or his coaches minds.. they are on the right track.

personally I feel the “knee drop” double leg, tuck.. etc, Is/was created because of physics and pole design.

Nothing about this jumper needs to be criticized, changed or argued about.

All he and his coach needs to do is to tell everyone (the arm chair quarterbacks) to get the “Fudge” out of my face.. and use the right pole with the right grip and do all this eventually with a long run and at full speed.

the point i was trying to make is he is vaulting correctly..

but it seems we always want to take the "high speed' film and some "scientist' will tell him he is wrong.. creating doubt and unnecessary negatives.

this has been the case with almost every vaulter after and even during Bubka's time..

an example was with Tim Mack.. pole squashier!!! and his takeoff angle was to flat!!! i can tell you that Bubka bent the pole 30% or more on most of his good jumps.. and he had a flatter angle after takeoff on those jumps....
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we seen to pick out something different than what the coach and athlete knows they should work on.. I guess we must do that to have something to say…

anyway… let this guy jump.. let his coach coach and hope that he stays on the right pole with the right grip…

I personally don’t think he should have gone up a pole for the 6.02.. if so it should have been a different pole.. Tim went from a 12.8 to a 12.6 … instead of a 12.4 .. he didn’t have the 12.6 before the games.. when a vaulter is at their best is when no change or a very, very small change of poles with no change in technique will make things happen correctly..

dj

Lavillenie is the best pole vaulter I've seen in 20 years. Period.

"Lavillenie is the BEST POLE VAULTER I've seen in 20 years. Period." Perhaps we should have a style competition in parallel with one which decides the result by who jumps the highest. Sorry Barto -had to get that in!

Now dont get defensive again dj. As far as I can see no one has made any comment about his technique YET! And you have written more on the this specific topic than everyone else combined.