The Most Extreme Pole Vault Guide

Pole Vault Gymnastics – The Kipping Process – Part 1

Part 1 of an instructional video teaching how to progress towards learning a kip, one of the most essential gymnastics skills.

We will be posting more gymnastics videos soon.

Eccentric Strength Development: Specific Means for Specific Strength for the Jumps by Dave Kerin

This 8 minute teaser clip is from a lecture given by USATF high jump event chair, Dave Kerin, about eccentric strength development for jumping. In this lecture, Dave speaks about the role of eccentric strength in jumping and the best means to train it in a specific manner that will benefit jump performance.

Pole Vault Gymnastics – Vitali Petrov’s Gymnastic Reno 2005

Vitaly Petrov’s Gymnastics coach speaks about his training philosophy and techniques.

Pole Vault Technique – Alan Launder Swing Discussion

Alan Launder, former Australian national coach and author of the “pole vault bible”, Beginner to Bubka discusses and demonstrates effective swing technique at the Willamette Striders Track Club in Oregon City, Oregon.

Alan was here in Honolulu last month for a two day pole vault clinic held at Kaiser High School.

Willamette Striders director/coach and USATF chair for pole vault development for the Northwest US Rick Baggett will be the clinician at the annual pre-season Hawaii pole vault and coaches certification clinic on Valentine’s day, February 14th, 2009 at Iolani High School.

Pat Licari at USATFCCCA Pole Vault Symposium, 2007 – Part 2

Part two of the video posted earlier this week with University of Washington coach Pat Licari (Brad Walker, Kate Soma) discussing the technical details of the pole vault.

Pat Licari at USATFCCCA Pole Vault Symposium, 2007

University of Washington coach Pat Licari (Brad Walker, Kate Soma) discusses the technical details of the pole vault.

David Butler at 2007 Reno PV Summit

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