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Lesson 11:
Pole Progression and First Errors
The coach answers questions about pole inventory, budget constraints, and how difficult it is to develop athletes without enough properly matched poles. He closes with a key coaching principle: always fix the first breakdown in the chain, because later errors are often just symptoms.
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,...
