Phase-by-phase break
Your pole vault broken into the phases coaches grade. AI tells you which phase is costing you the most and why.
Pole Vault form check on demand. Upload a clip of your pole vault and AI flags every break in technique with priority tags, what's critical, what's minor, plus the drill that fixes each one. The same form-check feedback you'd post for online, private and immediate.
Your pole vault broken into the phases coaches grade. AI tells you which phase is costing you the most and why.
When a coach says "your form is off," you don't always know where. AI marks the exact frame the error appears, with a coaching note attached.
Every flagged error comes with the drill that targets it. No generic homework, no guessing what to work on next session.
You'll see priority-tagged technique notes, the specific frames where the form breaks, and the drill that targets each issue. It's a full pole vault form check in under a minute, the kind you'd pay an expensive remote coach for.
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Each fault below is described two ways: how it looks on video (so you can recognize it on your own clips) and the drill or cue that fixes it. AI form check identifies these patterns in the same frames a coach would.
Your takeoff foot lands beneath or behind where your top hand is pointing, crushing the pole and killing any bend.
Short-run takeoff drills with a taped mark; move your standards back and focus on takeoff-foot-under-grip alignment.
You bend or retract your bottom arm as the pole hits the box, which flattens the pole and kills vertical lift.
Plant-and-hold drills against a mat, focus on keeping both arms fully extended through the first quarter of the swing.
Your top hand is still rising when the pole tip contacts the back of the box, costing pole bend and usable energy.
Walk-in plant drills with the cue 'drive the top hand up on step minus-2' to groove an earlier hand rise.
Each phase has a coaching cue, a measurable target, the frames a coach pauses on, and the failure mode AI flags most often. Use it as a self-diagnostic checklist on every video.
Stride pattern, posture, and acceleration into the box. The single biggest performance variable, +0.54 m peak height per +1 m/s of run-up velocity (Schade et al.).
Top hand drives up, pole drops into the box on its own weight, lower hand follows. The plant happens in 200 milliseconds; the timing is the entire event.
Leap off the back leg, free leg drives up, body angles slightly back. The vaulter's body stores stretch energy through the arm, chest, hips, and legs that the swing-up will release.
The takeoff leg swings long and the body inverts on the long pivot of the top hand. Arms drag, then drive forward into the close-off.
Once inverted on a bent pole, the unbending pole thrusts the vaulter vertically. The vaulter pulls the top arm along the body and rotates over the bar.
Pike-cup-snake-smile. The arms and chest cup away from the bar; the bottom hand releases first, then the top.
Primary sources behind the numbers and methods on this page.
Five common questions about pole vault that come up in coaching.
A directory of every pole vault page on the site, from broad analysis tools to specific phase deep-dives. Each entry points to a focused write-up.
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