Advanced Techniques - The Pull and Turn

1. Once fully rocked back, you should keep your back to the bar as long as possible. Your body can drift under the bended pole as it recoils and extend up in corkscrew fashion to arch the hips up over the bar to a maximum height.
2. It is imperative to continue to rock back during the pull & turn - otherwise the forward momentum of the uncoiling pole with shoot the vaulters body forward and into the crossbar. During the pull and turn, the vaulters body needs to continue to come back away from the bar, thus increasing the space between the bar and the vaulters body - enabling the vaulter to turn without knocking the bar off with their hips.
3. As the vaulter executes the pull their body should be 1/4 turned already with the pole between their legs (top hand), and as they pull through their chest the turn continues until they guide themselves successfully over the bar.
4. Throughout the pull and turn the vaulter should be as close as possible to the pole (hands right next to their body) to accept back the energy from the pole and maximize height. A common error is for a vaulters body to drift towards the bar. This costs the vaulter height because then some of the energy returned from the pole is waisted in rotating the vaulters body in mid-air rather than shooting them higher.