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09/17/2026

How to Pole Vault Higher
Incorporate more sequential motion during the inversion phase to keep the pole loaded more, and do more than gymnastics giants on a pole.
Pole Vault Biomechanical Analysis by Advantage Athletics Inc pole vault coach Tim Werner

09/16/2026

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09/15/2026

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09/14/2026

Pole Vault Term Glossary below.
How to Pole Vault Efficiently
In order to be competitive in today's pole vault competitions you have to be more efficient. Gone are the old pole vault cliché terms: row, move the hands, pressure down the pole, downward pressure, top hand pressure, top arm pressure, create space, free takeoff... All of which really don't describe any real movements in the pole vault. "Row" If you have ever rowed a pole you would know that is not how you row a boat. That action in the pole vault is more like paddling. "Move the hands" How?!!! I know probably forward, but randomly moving the hands forward mostly pushes the shoulders back out of the cord of the pole. When the top hand passes the shoulders the vaulter has to wait until the shoulders rock back under the hands. That allows the pole to lengthen and lose all its energy.
"Pressure down the pole" Moving the top hand from behind the shoulders to above the shoulders raises the top hand! That does NOT create any pressure down the pole. The only time the top hand can create "downward pressure" down the pole is when the top hand passes the shoulders, and you never want the top hand to pass the shoulders. The top arm is such a small mass and short lever length with only the muscle groups around the shoulders can apply any real force or movement of the top arm or arms.
The rest of the entire body from the shoulders to the feet consist of a lot more muscle groups and levers that can be used to manipulate and transfer energy into the pole.
Terms that should be used are:
Speed through the plant.
Tilt forward into the plant.
Initiate bend in the pole while there's a mechanical connection to the ground.
Soft top arm to maintain speed in the face and shoulders.
Punch the shoulders.
Use bottom arm/hand pressure not so much to bend the pole, but to control the hips behind the shoulders, the trail knee behind the hips and the trail foot up behind the trail knee. YES the trail leg knee should be bent. That creates another lever that can be used in the swing sequence of shoulders swing into the "cord of the pole" (pole tip to top hamd) from the top hand, then the hips swing, then the trail knee swings, then the trail foot swings down the cord of the pole. That creates thrust down the cord of the pole that loads the pole more that shortens the lever length of the pole that moves everything forward. The only forward pressure on top hand is to keep the shoulders in the cord of the pole. It is all the sequential motions of the rest of the body that is creating down the cord of the pole pressure through the shoulders.
"Create Space" is not so much as pushing on the pole with the bottom arm or worse yet locking out the bottom arm at the plant, the space between the body and the pole is created by all the sequential movements as described above. When elite pole vaulters do that well you can see their bottom hand open, NOT pushing, but holding on with their finger tips for dear life.
"Free takeoff" There's nothing for free. Any air time from leaving the ground to making contact with the back of the box, the body is slowing down. Any jumping up is misdirecting energy away from being driven into the pole.
The efficient swing-up is a result of kicking the trail leg/legs up to perpendicular to the cord of the pole. That directs energy up parallel to the cord. That is used as a counterforce to the pole trying to lengthen. That is where Newton's 3rd Law is, not in "moving the hands". When the legs reach perpendicular to the cord the shoulders engage lifting the hips up as the shoulders drive down the cord as the hip flexors continue to drive the legs up and toward the cord. Then the extension up to straighten the body further driving the shoulders down the cord. The turn is started at the end of extension. The turn itself down not apply pressure down the cord. All this keeps the pole loaded while inverting.
*Pole Vault Biomechanical Analysis by Advantage Athletics Inc pole vault coach, Tim Werner since 1980.

09/13/2026

Does this make any sense to you? Please explain to me what this means?

09/11/2026

How to Pole Vault Higher
What comes first?
The Row or the Swing?
What is more efficient?
A Biomechanical Analysis by Advantage Athletics Inc
Pole Vault Coach
Tim Werner
"There are 2 ways to add energy to the system after the pole vaulter has left the ground, Sequential Motion and Muscle Energy." Dr. Mark Walsh PhD Biomechanics
For those Physics "experts" that say it's just kinetic energy from the run. False! Very misleading! All movement has kinetic energy. This is kinematic sequencing or in Biomechanical terms "Sequential Motion", a term that needs to be used more in describing movements in the pole vault and motions sought after.

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