PoleVaultWorld

Alan Launder Interview Part 2 PVW - #0023

2006-07-13T13:24:00.000-05:00

Alan Launder Instructing proper Pole Vault Techniqe on the High Bar at the Woodlands Camp on July 6, 7, 8, 2006.

More Information Coming Soon!!!

Alan Launder Interview Part 1 PVW - #0022

2006-07-13T13:07:00.000-05:00

Listen to this Podcast PVW #0022

Alan Launder, Author "From Beginner to Bubka" conducted a camp at the Woodlands High School July 6, 7, 8, 2006.

Coach Launder graduated from Loughborough College, England. Coached his firt Pole Vaulter in 1958 Paul Dove, shortly after he moved to Dr. Challoner's Grammar School , England. He was assigned field events where he taught each boy to Pole Vault on 8 ft wooden staves. It was here that Steve Chappell learned to Pole Vault and started his way to his present position as Managing Director of UCS Spirit. After 10 years of Coaching in England Alan moved to the U.S. to Western Kentucky to earn a Masters Degree and coach the field events. In 1973 Coach Launder left for the University of South Austraila as a Throws Coach. It was here that I saw that there had not been a vaulter over 13 feet in the last five years. To learn more about the Vault I visited England, Germany, France and Poland. I worked with Maurice Houvion for two weeks in Vincennes, France. Andrzei Krzesinski in Warsaw, Poland for two weeks and Krupski in Germany two weeks.

My great change in thinking came when I met Vitali Petrov. "Planning for Peak Performance in the Pole Vault", PDF File 37 pages. More to Come !!!

Music by Gilli Moon, Song Extrordinary Life

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San Marcos River Vault 2006 PVW - #0021

2006-07-13T12:53:00.000-05:00

The San Marcus River was held on July 2, 2006 hosted by Lone Star Pole Vault. Jason Colwick pictured winning the Elite Divison with a jump of 17'0".

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NCAA Track & Field Championships 2006 PVW - #0020

2006-07-05T07:36:00.000-05:00

Tommy Skipper won his second NCAA Track & Field Outdoor Pole Vault Title June 9, 2006 in Sacramento Calafornia. Tommy Jumped 18' 8 1/4 for the win. Becca Gillispy inteviews Tommy after the win and gives details of how the competition went. Opened at 5.5 (18' 0 1/2). When the bar was at 5.85 (19' 2 1/2) Tommy started with a pole flexed at 11.6 and finished with a flex of 12.0. Tommy tells Becca that he plans to stay in school and graduate in two years. The interview then goes on to how it feels to win second outdoor title. Photo taken from American Track & Field Athlete.

Mike Landers of UCLA placed 3rd with a jump of 18'0 1/2" new double PR. Mike was able to get on a bigger pole and jumping with the advice of Coach Tony (Anthony Curran).

Brian Mondschein tells how his warm-ups were ugly running through 5 of 6 times. When the competition started he got his adrenaline going and went up poles and made ajustments as the meet when on. Brian cleared all his jumps until he got to 5.50 (18'0 1/2"). Winds were not to bad, you could catch a break if you stayed patient. Advice to young vaulters, just keep at it. Alot of hard work will pay off in the end.

Music found at the end of the podcast is from the Podsafe Music Network. The song is Let it Rock by the Black Furies.

Jillian Schwrtz Interview #0019

2005-11-04T05:59:00.000-06:00

Becca Gillespy Interviews Jillian Schwartz in Jonesboro Ark. Jillian was a member of the U.S. Olympic Team that competed in Athens Greece. See Jillian's USATF Career Highlights

Here is the link to the recipes Jill gave in her interview as her favorites

1. How did you get started?
2. How high did you jump in college 4.20 13'9
3. What did you do after college?
4. What year did you graduate from college? 2001
5. What was it like leaving college and becoming an elite vaulter?
6. How did you first get to go and compete in Europe - Agent?
7. What was it like traveling to Europe and competing?
8. 2004 Olympic year. How did you prepare?
9. What were your experiences at the Olympics in Greece.
10. What were some highlights in 2005? World Championships
11. What were your favorite meets to jump in Europe?
12. What are your goals for 2006?
13. What is it like being featured in two calandars. Vault Girls & and Jewish + Female = Athlete.
14. Polevaultpower.com members Questions? from the message board.
15. We are still waiting on favorite songs from Techno and Punk

Web Links: Duke Magazine, Jewish Virtual Library.

Woodlands Halloween Vault PVW - #0018

2005-10-30T16:23:00.000-06:00

The Woodlands Halloween Vault Show Notes will be up soon. Check back for details

Sound effects found at http://www.ilovewavs.com/Author/author.htm

Jeff Hartwig Interview PVW - #0017

2005-10-30T16:21:00.000-06:00

Jeff Harwig Show Notes will be added soon. In the meantime vist

http://www.jeffhartwig.com/

Deke Conklin Interview PVW - #0016

2005-09-14T05:48:00.000-05:00

Becca Gillespy Interview's Deke Conklin at the York Beach Vault. I will complete this Blog with Deke as soon as I can find the time. I am putting on a Cross Country meet this Friday with over 500 runners who I need to key entries into my computer for scoring.

Check back Monday 9/19/05 for interview.

Read the following article about Deke for his story. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05163/520291.stm

York Beach Vault Interviews PVW - #0015

2005-09-12T06:02:00.000-05:00

York Beach Interviews will be up as soon as I can get the time to mix them together and upload. Very busy week putting on a High School Cross Country Meet.

Matt Gault Email mtgault@metrocast.net

Bob Duckworth

PVW - #0014 Bubba Sparks Interview

2005-09-09T21:33:00.000-05:00

Bubba Sparks is a Master Pole Vaulter who has been vaulting in Master Meets since 1988.

Bubba first got the idea to Pole Vault when he saw Bob Seagren jump at the Sunkist Invitational on T.V. After watching the meet Bubba was in his garage looking for sticks he could use to practice with.

In High School Bubba vaulted at Waltrip & Scarborough High Schools and jumped 14'6. Athlete he remembers looking up to was Dave Roberts from Conroe High School TX, and trained at Rice University. (1976 World Record Holder 5.70 18' 81/4").

Beginning equipment: 2 poles 16' 190 & (12' 130 thermaflex) learned how to swing from the smaller pole.

Bubba attended Soutwest Texas State University on a partial Pole Vault Scholarship and jumped 15' 2 1/2" Freshman year. Bubba watched STEVE HARDISON win the NAIA National Outdoor Championship 16' 625". which was the motivation to get better for the upcoming seasons. Bubba went on to win the 1975 & 1976 NAIA Pole Vault Outdoor Championships. Bubba's PR in college was 5.20 17' 0.75" at the same meet Earl Bell set the World Record in Wichita 5.67 18.7.25

After a 10 year absence from vaulting Bubba met up with Coach Vince O'Boyle at UC Irvine to help coach college vaulters and have a place to train for 14 years.

Bubba was asked by Bruce Caldwell to assist as a Pole Vault technician for the Olympic Games in Atlanta where he spent five weeks working with athletes from around the world as they prepared for the Olympics. In 1997 Bubba won the Boston Indoor Nationals competed in Master's Championships in South Africa placing 3rd.

In 2005 Bubba competed in the National Masters Meet in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bubba palced 3rd in event 765 M50 Pole Vault (3.50 meters 11' 575") Bubba is also helping the Pole Vaulters at The Woodlands High School, Texas.

Links discussed by Bubba in our interview.

Bubbapv.com Bubba's Web Page

http://www.aptc.biz/PT%20at%20Home/ Bubba's PT at Home

http://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/athletics/wavalookup.html Age grading calculator.

PVW - #0013 Pole Vault Superstitions

2005-09-09T21:31:00.000-05:00

Pole Vault Superstitions is under construction and will be added when complete

PVW - #0012 Indy State Fair

2005-08-27T19:32:00.000-05:00

Denise Howell - Appellate and Intellectual Property Lawyer Interview.

Adam Cury & Ron Bloom - CBS Marketwatch Interview.

Walt Mossberg - With the Wall Street Journal on the Podcast411 Interview.

Becca Gilespy with polevaultpower.com interviews the following Vaulters.

Lon Badeaux - Arkansaw State University Jumps and Multi Coach. (Founder of the Grand Prix Vault Series.

Adam Kuel - Leader of the Grand Prix Vault Circust going in to the Indy Vault. Adam also is the Vault Coach at Steven F. Austin, University.

Chip Heuser - Winner of the Indy State Fair Vault - 17' 0" PR 17'6.25".

Sue DeNigris - Winner of the Indy State Fair Vaut - 12' 6" PR 13' 9.25

Ashley Hanshaw - Sophomore at Illinois University. 11'6" PR 12' 05"

Jeremy Hull - 3 Time All - Big Ten NJCAA National Champion 1999 - 15'6" PR 18' 2".

Bill Huber - Miami University Ohio - 13' 6" PR 13'6"

Jamie Davis - NCAA D-II All-American 4 Time NCAA D-II Academic All-American 6 time provisional National Qualifier Graduate of University of South Dakota NH PR 12' 4"

Shelby Franklin - 13 years old 8th grade Monroe City, MO 9' 0" PR 9' 0".

Podcastpickel.com - Newest PoleVaultWorld Podcast Host.

PVW-#0011 Clovis Street Vault 2005

2005-08-07T19:16:00.000-05:00

August 7 2005 Becca Gillespy with polevaultworld.com interviews many of the top vaulters at the 2005 Clovis, CA Street Vault.

Justin Norberg wins the Men's division with a jump of 18'0".

Becky Holliday wins the Woman's division with a jump of 14'6".

John Takahashi 2nd in the Men's division with a jump of 17' 6".

Ebbie Metzinger 2nd in the Womans's division with a jump of 14' 0".

Russell Weaver 3rd in the Men's with a jump of 17' 6".

McKane Lee just completed Soph season at the University of Washington, jumped 17' 0".

Scott Roth jumped 17'0" 2nd at the World Championships in Morocco.

Ben Allen Student Assistant Coach at Idaho State Universtiy jumped 17' 0"

Jackie Rodgers - just completed Jr season at Kent State. Jumped 13'6".

Sean Brown - Creator of Neovault.com. Update on Neovault III. Current Vault PR 5.70 18' 8.25"

I heard it on a podcast: by Cruisebox.

PVW-#0010 Steve Chappell, UCS Spirit

2005-08-04T20:11:00.000-05:00

Steve Chappell, UCS Spirit http://www.ucsspirit.com/ Episode 10

A. August 5, 2005. This is Bob Duckworth with PoleVaultWorld.com Today I asked many of our High School CC Runners if they new what Podcasting was and most did not have a clue. So I think I need to repeat myself on the topic for first time listeners. Podcasts can be downloaded and Subscribe for free at itunes, or podcastalley.com and at many other sites.

B. How did I first get in to Podcasting? Well, I grew up in the Denver Colorado area and often times I go to the Denverpost.com webpage for Colorado News. On that site I saw a Podcast logo and read up on how I could download their Podcast. The process was pretty easy and before I new it I was driving to Cross Country Practice listening to Colorado News. During that days run with the team I could not stop thinking about how cool that was. When I came back home I researched further and found that you could download other Podcasts from itunes for free. So I gave it a try, and soon I was listening to podcasts from amateurs like myself.

C. I feel like I just found an old microphone and went out in the backyard and just started talking about stuff. Much like Rick Baggett said beginning vaulters should do with an old Pole Vault Pole, In Becca's interview with Rick Bagget on episode 9. As I continue to learn how to use this microphone, I hope to bring the sound quality to a better level. With time I will move to better equipment and keep improving like we expect our vaulters to do.

D. Now its time to turn it over to Becca Gillespy with polevaultpower.com interviews Steve Chappell with UCS Spirit, in Carson City Nevada. at the UCS Spirit pole plant.

B. Becca asks how did you get started making poles. "long answer to that, I was a Pole Vaulter in England and my coach was in correspondence with George Moore of American Athletics. George brought his family to Munich Germany in 1972 for the Olympics, It was at that time he met George's daughter Debbie. Two years later Debbie came to England with a friend in 1974 and our friendship blossomed and I came to America and we got married.

C. I began working at Pacer American in Carson City, Nevada. I was working on the pacer III vaulting pole. Things evolved and developed and after George past away from a serious cancer I moved up in the company. In 1986 Pacer was sold.

D. In 1987 we formed UCS Spirit, Jim Wagnor, Lane Maestretti, and myself under the wing of UCS.

E. Becca asks what success has Spirit poles had. 1st Doug Fraley(son of Bob Fraley) Jumped with our poles at the NCAA Championships 1987. He needed a pole, one of his poles was damaged and he needed a replacement. Lane drove it down to Baton Rouge and Doug won the meet. This was one of our most cherished moments because we new the pole had met the stress of competition.

F. Relationship with Sergei Bubka continued from his use of the AMF Pacer. Sergei in fact did set a new world record in 1988 using the new Spirit Pole. Sergei began a whole string of records which took him over 20 feet, over 6 meters 40 times. Sergei record still stands today at 6.13 meters or 20'125" . Following Doug Fraley from the Fresno area was Melissa Price who took woman's pole vaulting to new levels and set many American Records. She jumped 13'0" after graduating from high school and show that woman vaulters are for real. Stacy Dagila continued that string of American Records, that turned into World Records, and Olympic Gold. Now the event realy is a global sport for woman and 5 meters has been broken.

G. Its been 20 years since Sergei Bubka jumped the majical 6.0 meters on July 13, 1985, and here July 22, 2005 the woman 5.0 meters was set. Thats a very special feeling to be connected to those two majical marks. We hope it will continute, will see. Hopefully, we will do a little bit better with the weather, and we won't get delayed and disrupted. We would like to focus on a Clinic and the Competition. We really feel

H. Becca asks - you all put on the National Pole Vault Summit every year, what are some of the things we can expect at the 2006 Summit.

PVW-#0009 Rick Baggett Interview

2005-08-02T22:44:00.000-05:00

Rick Baggett Interview http://www.willamettestriders.com/ Click on hyperlink to see Coach Baggett's site.

A. Vision has come true. I started PoleVaultWorld Podcast in the hopes that other pole vault enthusiasts would do interviews and send them to this site. Becca Gillespy who created polevaultpower.com sent me an email at oakduck@hotmail.com with interview files of Coach Rick Baggett USA Senior Coach WSTC 14388 So. Maplelane Rd. Oregon City, OR 97045.

B. PoleVaultWorld is now listed on podcastalley.com. This site is very new and expanding very quickly. At podcastalley.com you can view PoleVaultWorld Podcast info and download all the episodes.

C. my.yahoo.com site. This link is where you would go to set up a my yahoo account. Once you have an account go to add content to see how to include a RSS feed. Becca's RSS feed , click here. PoleVaultWorld Feed Feed is highlighted in the greyed out line.

D. From polevaultworld.com you can link to my show notes by clicking on podcast down at the bottom of the home page. Once there click on show notes link.

E. In Becca's interview you can hear poles hitting the back of the box during the interview.

F. Becca's in the Harry Weber indoor facility in Oregon City, Or. Becca is interveiwing the founder and director of the Willamette Striders Track Club. Coach Bagget was the High School Coach of Tommy Skipper 18'3" , Sarah Need help with spelling 13'0 footer in High School, Beckey Holliday 14' 4" as a Jr. College athlete. Coach Baggett talks about how to begin a club.

G. Coach Baggett gives the size of Harry Weber indoor facility at 60 feet wide and 200 feet long along with other details for training track & field athletes. Coach Baggett has 225 pole in the facility.

H. Coach Bagget is the chairman for the Northwest Region Pole Vault Development. As Chairman he runs the Northwest Polevault Festival in February, its kind of like the Pole Vault Summit. but for local High School coaches and athletes. Gymnastics coaches come in and help out with body positioning. Also puts on the Northwest Regional Championships with two Beach Vaults running 10 and 11 years. Also check out the Freedom Fair

I. Becca asks Coach Baggett what is going well for Pole Vault Development. Pole Vault is far ahead of other events. From safety issues to Coaches education program. We need to start to put together a standardized Pole Vault Curriculum for Schools to work from. We need to create a standarized development much like gymnastics has. Rick suggests more work on conditioning and speed development.

J. USOC has pulled the funding and put it on a as needed basis. Organizors would take $8,000 to take athletes and them selves to Europe, This did not help the development community. Becca asks where should we spend money. Coach Baggett suggests building 100 facilitys like the Harry Weber at every metro area in the U.S. = 25 Million.

K. Becca asks what advice do you have for beginning vaulters. Rick suggests get and old pole and go jump over stuff in the back yard. As soon as you start getting 8 or 9 feet and it starts to hurt, you need to go find a pole vault pit.

L. Becca asks how do you suggest kids learn more about pole vaulting. Rick says "investigate", get on the internet and ask around.

M. If you got my closing in a Duck kind of voice, I did not do that on purpose. The first real PoleVaultWorld Blooper is here. I heard it on my itunes download, not the other sites.

L. Music at the end is the song Rollin by Regan. Send an Email with a song you have found in garageband and I just may put it on a podcast coming soon.

PVW-#0008 Becca's On The Road

2005-08-02T22:40:00.000-05:00

Show notes soon.

PVW-#0007 Beth Spearman & Adam Kuel

2005-08-02T22:38:00.000-05:00

Show notes soom

PVW-0006 Frawley, Parker, Cummings

2005-08-02T22:37:00.000-05:00

Show notes soon.

PVW-#0005 T.J. McLardy Interview.

2005-08-02T22:33:00.000-05:00

Show notes soon.

PVW-#0004 Morgan Lancaster Interview

2005-08-02T11:40:00.000-05:00

Winner of Woman's Amature Division 11' 5"

A. What Club, Texas Pole Vault. Coach: George Rodrigues.

B. Pole Vaulting, 4 years, first year with Texas Pole Vault.

C. I use Essex Poles, 12' 0" 140, 13'0" 130, 13'0" 135.

D. 11'4" today best of the summer.

E. Practice 2 or three times a week.

F. Start mark 77 feet, had to move back a little today. Take off 9 1/2 - 10 feet.

G. Goals: Go to state, clear 12 or 12' 6" High Lights of last year 4th at Texas Relays, 4t at
Regionals.

H. Never heard of podcasting before. Would you be a regular listener.

I. Sitting accross the river watching the elite vaulters warm up.

J. Like to listen to any type of music, clapping kind of distracting.

K. Thank my parents for always being there for me. George, walks by and trys to make you
laugh.

PVW-0003 Dustin Warren Interview

2005-08-02T10:35:00.000-05:00

A. Will be going into 11 Grade, Odessa High School.

B. Team: West Texas Pole Vault.

C. Coach: Curtis Hays, and Eddie Stevenson ( Toby Stevenson's Dad).

D. How did you prepare. Use bigger pole, Altius 13' 9" 155. Grip: inch down from the top.

E. Take off: Fourteen steps back from the pit.

F. Last week at the USATF Championships 2nd place 13'0" jump off.

G. Going to the National Meet in Indianapolis.

H. Jump in the river after you are done.

I. 14' feet PR. Goals keep on breaking my records and getting on bigger poles.

J. Never have heard of a podcast.

PVW-#0002 Hannah Henson

2005-08-02T09:53:00.000-05:00

Could be the very first Pole Vault Podcast Interview ever.

A. Hanna Henson Arkansas Vault Club, Coach Morry Sanders.

B. Years Pole Vaulting, 5 months. PR before today 10'1". Vaulted 10'4" to Win.

C. Hanna decribes the River Vault.

D. Start Mark 71 feet, poles Skypole & Altius 110, 120, 130, 135. Mid Mark 32 feet. 9 1/2 take off mark

E Meets you have won? Some local High School Meets. San Marcos River Vault 2005.

F. Swim Team Arkansas Dolphins.

G. Never heard of a podcast.

PVW-#0001 San Marcos Promo

2005-08-02T08:22:00.000-05:00

A. San Marcos River Vault sponserd by LoneStarPV and Charis Allison.

B. Divisions and see who is coming. Link, this will feature the Grand Prix in Pole Vault.

C. Purpose of PoleVaultWorld Interviews of Coaches and Athletes.

D. Discuss types of questions to ask.

Beta Podcast PVW-0000

2005-08-02T06:50:00.000-05:00

Intro
A. Created using Audiocast

B. Hi I am new to radiodaddy and podcasting. I am a Pole Vault Coach and would like to provide Pole Vaulters with podcast style news and information.My script for the intro would go like this.1. Your listening to Polevaultworld. Topics here will take you high above the bar with actual pole vaulters and techniques that got them there.2. Return often for interviews with the Stars and Coaches who have success stories to share.Any good sound effect would be welcome!!!Raise the Bar with your voice overOakduck. midimuso at radiodaddy did the PoleVaultWorld voice over.

C. Fellow Pole Vault enthusists, This is a beta podcast to see if there is a big enough interest to set up a pole vault podcast site. I have recently purchased an ipod and have been learning its capabilities. After a couple of weeks of fumbling around I came across itunes podcasts. Podcasting is a method of publishing files via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed to receive new files automatically. It became popular in late 2004, largely for downloading audio files onto a portable audio player or personal computer. What you are listening to now is a podcast. I am in no way an experienced computer geek or broadcaster, but I was able to create this podcast with realitive ease and very little expense. After installing and listening to some of itunes podcasts I began to realize that podcasting maybe an excellent way for Pole Vaulters to pass on success stories, techniques and interviews. As we all know Track & Field and Pole Vaulting get very little main stream news coverage and it is very hard to get good coverage. Becca at polevaultpower.com has done such a great job with her message board. News and information pole vaulters receives there is just awsome. I can only hope that Becca will be a strong supporter and part of trying to create a pole vault podcast . I am willing to get a podcast for pole vaulters started if the interest is here. I in no way want to be the only one who conducts interviews or feel I have the ability to do a good job at it. However, I think with help we could have many people interviewing Pole Vaulters and sending those interviews by wav or mp3 format to me. I would then mix the interviews with a new podcast in production. Let me know what you think. Coach Duckworth Klein Oak High School