Cues, not corrections
"Drive your knee" beats "your knee was a little low." Cue-based coaching gets the change to happen in the next rep, not the next month. AI prescribes cues for what it sees, not just diagnostic notes.
Pole Vault tips are everywhere. Most are generic. Here are the cues real pole vault coaches use, short, specific, and tied to the phase of the rep where they apply. Pair them with AI form check and you have a feedback loop that closes.
"Drive your knee" beats "your knee was a little low." Cue-based coaching gets the change to happen in the next rep, not the next month. AI prescribes cues for what it sees, not just diagnostic notes.
Most athletes try to fix three things at once and fix none. Pick one cue per rep, see what it does, then iterate. The AI surfaces the one cue that would close the biggest gap in your pole vault.
A cue is only useful if it triggers in the right phase. "Heel down" means nothing without a moment to apply it. Each AI tip is timestamped to the phase of pole vault it belongs to.
Generic tip lists are everywhere. Tips tied to your specific form errors are not. Upload a clip and AI returns the 1-3 cues that would change the most in your pole vault, ranked by impact.
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.
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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