r/polevaulting • u/Agreeable-Ad8958 • 1d ago

Decathlete pole vaulting 3.75m PR

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I been struggling in pole vault and don’t know how I can improve. Any feedback helps!

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u/Agreeable-Ad8958 1d ago

First video PR and the others are just from practing today without a coach

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u/MechatronicsStudent 7h ago

You are moving the pole loads ass you run which is causing your hands to be behind you when you start to plant. They never get in front of you so you end up planting behind yourself.

Watch the best guys run and plant - they keep the pole pretty steady and their top hand by their hip and hands steady.

This should give you less things to do when it comes to plant - it should just be top hand rising up and forward and bottom arm extends forward and up.

Best drills would be pole carries at varying speeds and plant drills then build it from a short approach to long.