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Lesson 2:
Plant Timing Fixes
The coach explains how he retrained the athlete’s plant using one-step, two-step, and sliding-box progressions. He then connects that improved timing to the next major issue: a right elbow position that blocks inversion and keeps the athlete from getting fully upside down.
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Pole vault is often taught as a collection of isolated positions, but this course shows how the event really works: as a connected sequence where the run, plant, takeoff, swing, inversion, and bar clearance all depend on each other. Using real athlete examples, Dave Emeott breaks down what separates efficient vaults from flawed ones, highlighting issues like early plant timing, blocking elbows,...
