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WHEN:   3 days:  MAY 30,31, JUNE 1  (Tue, Wed, Th,) TIME:      9:00 till noonish WHERE:  Circleville High School (on Tiger Drive) COST:     $75 per vaulter (We will have 2 pits. Can handle the first 24 campers to register with checks. Coaches & parents are welcome for free. My goal is to help you help your vaulter.  (Any donations accepted if you feel that youContinue reading “Circleville Pole Vault Camp”

Assumed Risk Let’s start with the basics.  Every track and field event, pole vault included, needs to be conducted safely.  Weather conditions might change the focus from “citius, altius, fortius” (faster, higher, stronger) to “survival mode”, but the event still needs to be safe.  With every event in track and field there is also an “assumed risk”.  AContinue reading “Too Bad to Vault”

The Process of Getting a Measured Approach Working with brand new vaulters Vaulters hold at the “reach grip”.  They “know” what foot they want to jump from Vaulters on the Track Coach will mark a chalk runway and box on the track Chalk runway will have takeoff marks and starting marks from 40 to 60 feetContinue reading “Getting Steps for the New Vaulter”

Coach Dave Phelps is hosting the Newark HS Pole Vault Camp on June 7th and 8th. It’s a great place for vaulters from “rookies” to high school advanced vaulters. I’ll be there for the whole camp as well. Here’s the link to the 2021 brochure – I’ll update for 2022 as soon as I receiveContinue reading “Newark HS Pole Vault Camp”

One of the questions that came up at the OAT-CCC Pole Vault Safety Clinic, is what are the “basics “ of pole vault poles.  So here goes. All Pole Vault Poles work.  While there are varying reason for liking one brand of pole vault pole over another, in general, all brands of pole vault pole work.  They areContinue reading “The Basics of Poles”