Phase by phase, not gut feel
Good pole vault technique isn't a vibe. It's a sequence. Each phase has clear targets you can measure: angles, foot positions, body lean. The AI tells you which phase in your rep is costing you the most.
Pole Vault technique is about precision. Every pole vault rep is a chain of phases. Each phase sets up the next. Get the phase-by-phase breakdown coaches use, plus AI that grades your own technique against it, frame by frame.
Good pole vault technique isn't a vibe. It's a sequence. Each phase has clear targets you can measure: angles, foot positions, body lean. The AI tells you which phase in your rep is costing you the most.
Watch a pole vault coach review tape. They pause on the same handful of frames every time. The takeoff, the plant, the release, the clearance. The AI pulls those exact frames for you.
Most form errors trace back one or two phases. Fixing the symptom doesn't help. The AI traces the chain back to the cause so you fix the right thing.
Upload a clip, AI tags every phase, marks where technique breaks, and writes a coaching note for each one. The same phase-by-phase read your coach would give, but on every rep, not just meet day.
Follow up in chat and ask questions. The AI remembers your analysis and speaks the language of pole vault coaching.
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.
The numbers coaches grade against. Levels run from beginner through elite, your AI form check compares your reps to the level above you.
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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