Steven Strawderman As a coach who should I be recruiting for the vault Program expectations Do we test our prospective athletes What do we expect from our athletes Fearless Vertical Jump Strong Powerful runners ID: 793252
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Pole Vault-Athletes to Target and Intro to the Basics
Steven Strawderman
Slide2As a coach; who should I be recruiting for the vault?
Program expectations?
Do we test our prospective athletes?
What do we expect from our athletes?
Fearless
Vertical Jump
Strong, Powerful runners
Gymnasts?
Slide3Physical Characteristics.. Does it Matter?
Do taller vaulters have a better chance of jumping high?
Strong Upper body vs Better all out speed
Bounce
Slide4Coaching Priority: Vaulting safely
Pole must move from original planting position to vertical.Vaulter and pole work together to constantly move dynamically throughout the jump.Vaulter is to stay behind the pole not off to either side.
Look up
Slide5Back to BasicsCoaches Checklist
Athletes GripWide?Narrow?
Running posture / pole carry
Gradual pole drop
Proper timing of planting motion
Jump, push, and move the pole to vertical
Slide6What can we do as coaches to help athletes progress and stay interested?
Make it fun
Set attainable goals
construct a training schedule to work up to those goals
Identifying potential weakness in a particular phase of the vault. Specifically prepare and train athlete to be more efficient in said phase.
Slide7What can we do as coaches to help athletes progress and stay interested?
Coaches Checklist- Every vault / Every Drill
Indicate where exactly things started to go wrong from your view.
Go back one step and analyze (Continuous Chain)
Revert back to purposeful drilling of basic fundamentals.
Exaggerate
Repeat
Slide8Thank you!