US record pole vault

[DieGeist27]

I love pole vaulting

[BMXtoSk8t7]

hmmm. i got to make my fort higher now

[DieFam0us]

it says the bar is at 16'5''

[TheEscapeAttempt]

@DieFam0us I think it says 65, for the depth

[keewee1091]

@DieFam0us thats his standards...and it says 65...its in cm

[hwouhh17]

im a junior and last year i jumped 9 ft. my first day jumping! this is ahmazing tho i wish i could learn how to properly hold the pole and jump to get better

[carissa8skittles]

@athleteization it was my first year so obviously i wasnt going to be good. and plus the only reason we do anything is to get better at it.

[carissa8skittles]

if your in 7 grade you cant be jumping 10 feet! when i was in 7 grade i set a record in my city for jumping only 1.8 meters (just over 5 feet)

[BigTeryaki]

@carissa8skittles Ever heard of a little man by the name of Mondo Duplantis?

[ZeeAceB]

@carissa8skittles i got 10 ft when i was an 8th grader so.....

[Pentontration]

charging the pit is only the first part, but it is proven that the better bend in the pole the harder it will shoot up

[Tarzan07330]

@Pentontration i wouldn't make statements like that. just sayin. a beginner may take it the wrong way. just cuz you smash a pole, doesn't mean it's good. i'm 5'8" and 160lbs. i SMASH 14'7" 185...but i get ZERO lift. haha

[bradcordova]

just wow. I love seeing an epic vault.

[zacklandaker]

thats pretty beasty

[xBlackHawkx32]

only at the best school stuff like that can happen

GO DUCKS!!!!!!!

[webeentheredonethat]

nice jump

[samgoskil]

Good Video!!!!

[joshman94]

ahhh the sport that they make look easy

but when you think about it would be hard

[whentimestarts]

I totally agree "Darthnebett". I also hate those people. I also agree with what you said below.

-pole vaulter of 10 years

[darthnebett]

yes, csufsully you are 100% correct do not lock out your bottom arm new vaulters. this is called blocking and is very bad it keeps you from jumping higher. to jump really high you must first master pole vaulting on a strait pole and then implement those techniques to a bent pole. good luck

[driftboi619]

yes and no. if u watch olympic jumpers they lock out their bottom arm on take off but thats cus they got huge freakin poles. beginners arent so yeah its like impossible for a beginner to lock out the bottom arm unless ur on a pole way under ur body weight in which case ur dumb and need to quit.

[starkey480]

dude no one needs you negativity, my freshman year i polevaulted with a locked arm on poles 30 pounds above my weight with a blocked arm, its fixed now of course but its doable

[TheDTolbert]

I couldn't agree more, I wanted badly to bend the pole my first year so without knowing what I was doing I blocked out my bottom arm. In the long run it took me months to fix it and I still cannot get all the way back because I still leave pressure on that arm.

[starkey480]

come on tolbert just hit it and quit it! the bottom arm that is lol see you at practice today

[ripsticker7]

i am in 7eventh grade and im jumping 10ft i love this sport so much but i am going to have to choose between this and baseball next year

[Bottledcan]

ripsticker7,

I say this to all my baseball friends:

You can choose track for a spring sport, or you can make a mistake.

:P

[theflyingvaulter106]

@ripsticker7 its sort of a load of bull if your in 7th grade and ur vaulting 10 ft

i can believe maybe 7 or 8 ft but 10 is just a mother f**king lie

[Sportseg17]

@theflyingvaulter106 dude I was just reading comments randomly and I saw this. I was in 7th grade and made 10 ft. then that summer I made 10 3 at the aau national track and field meet and won. and there are many other kids in 7th grade that go higher....

[theflyingvaulter106]

@Sportseg17 i dont belive that

since when do people offer pole vaulting to 7th graders and to be vaulting 10 and be in 7th grade you need some major upper body strength and unless you weight train like every friggen day, it would be impossible...i just dont believe that

[Sigmon2010]

@theflyingvaulter106 I live in texas and i have been pole vaulting since sixth grade, it doesnt require big muscles are vigorous training, its technique and your ability to understand the sport and because of it im on a vaulting scholarship

[Leija101]

@theflyingvaulter106 dude when i was in 7th grade i was doing 10ft also.. its not that surprising.. the winning vault at state when i was in 7th grade was 11'6.. i got 7th place.

[ambie22xc]

just beautiful :) i love this sport

[SunnyKid975]

6.04 m - Puts Walker 5th on all-time list behind Bubka, Hooker, Tarasov, Markov.

Bubka still has 6.15 from 1993 but Hooker is getting pretty close.

[gautlet996]

i think that america is dumb for not using the metric system.  I mean it works so much better and fuk all i us in math class is the metric system anyway i mean shit i hardly ever us inches.

[Napali27]

I'm a sophomore in high school.. (first year vaulting though)

My pr right now is 10'6"

My coach says I'll probably be going around 13-14 next year.....

Is that good?

He says my techniques good, I just need more upper body strength and practice

[theskull666]

im a soph more goin 12' right now my goal is to clear 15 by my senior year

[bubkaizgod202]

i think you'll have to do some serious fixing to jump that high in one year. I recommend Rick attig's pole vault camp in kansas. Best camp i've ever been too

[bearedman8]

10'6 as a sophomore tbh isn't that great. I'm a sophomore going 13'6. 10'6 would tie you for 51st best sophomore and 206th best vaulter in the state. Also it depend on what size pole you're using. If you made 10'6 on an 11 ft pole, that's decent. 12 is pretty avarage, and 13+ is poor.

[Napali27]

I was holding around 11 and I didn't bend the pole

[csufsully]

This is NOT good advice...

Widening your grip and "locking out your bottom arm" is not the way to learn how to bend. All it will do is cause the athlete to block out and inhibit them from ever swinging to the pole.

[csufsully]

I didn't mean that it wasn't PART of correct technique, I meant that it's never good advice for a newer vaulter to hear. If they get the idea of "locking-out" stuck in their head, it can easily become a problem causing them to never release pressure (collapse).

[darthnebett]

this is about the worst possible advice you could ever give to a beginner. people like you that try and coach and have no idea how to do it correctly really piss me off. bending the pole is not how you jump higher. it is a result of better technique and faster more efficient runs.

[punkxcore93]

agreed completely.

one should first learn to run and plant the pole before taking off.

but getting invert is what get u higher reguardless how much the bend.

[killerboy1154]

@darthnebett actually if you dont bend the pole you wont catch the ride of the un bending therefore you will not vault as higher...

[darthnebett]

@killerboy1154 well of course. I'm just saying you dont ever TRY to bend the pole. using the right technique will bend the pole naturally. the best advice i've ever gotten is "dont control the pole, the minute you try to be the master of the pole it will throw you on your ass. Let the pole do the work, have the right form, and just go along for the ride" before fiberglass poles guys were jumping 14' on a steel bar. I dont know if you've ever tried that but it doesn't bend...

[mightym0use23]

@darthnebett wrong bitch, when you bend the pole it shoots you up, look at people who dont bend the pole dont go that high. i would know.

[FiftyPercentRussian]

@mightym0use23 He's talking about for beginners

[FLaSHBaCK353]

@mightym0use23 wrong bitchx2, it is not the bend that shoots you up, its the correct transferring of energy from horizontal to vertical by means of the pole. The bend is the pole reacting to the forces being placed upon it. I can bend the shit out of a pole by overstriding, not jumping off the ground, and pulling down on the pole (in the plant of course). Will i clear any higher? Not a chance, but i would be much more likely to impale myself with fiberglass shards. Video evidence is on my side.

[gorx97]

ok seriously americans. i live in the USA too, but you guys are being dicks. you are making us look bad. we may or may not get the world record soon, no one can know that.

Lets all just agree that the USA has some good polevaulters along with many other countries in the world

[shortyirish]

Americas to good to use meters

[Napali27]

i can do half of this!!! haha

[claydude333]

Yays for high school pole vaulting!! =D

my current record is 10' 4"

and I'm a rookie ^_^

[cwaud]

ive vaulted on that mat

[bearedman8]

Me too, twice. :p

[cwaud]

nice! We go there for the Oregon Relays(XO) and our 4A state meet (duh)

[BurnzyHF1]

yeah number 1 when it comes to education as well!

[BurnzyHF1]

Americans!!... ''19ft 9.75in

use Metres and centimetres like the rest of the world!

[Br0k3M3xican]

make us!

[urasmore]

hell yeah were #1

[bignig53]

were better then the rest of the world so fuck your metres

[ShennyBoy23]

this is the US record, not world record

so dont be too proud

[TexasForever33]

The World Record is coming to the USA soon enough you communist son of a bitch

[Scarykid97]

Fuck you, prick.

[luvz2read]

It would have been really cool to see that live.

[RunFanatic]

I saw this live, and it's hard to capture the feeling of excitement that went through the whole crowd when he made the height. Oregon T&F fans are the best out there, period, and Hayward is the best single venue in the USA for any track meet.

[OedipusRex7334]

long live pre

[Vernor3]

thats amazing.

[runfunnysony1]

wow awesome jump

[lyricgals]

was this were u went to oragon (spelling??)