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Pole vault is all fundamentals; you don't even get to go into the pit until you learn how to run with the pole, build the strength to carry the pole, and have the right form when you run. The pole is too high, start over. Your steps are off, start over. You need to run faster, start over. Then, once you actually get to go into the pit, you don't get to go over a bar. The bar is a rubber band that is kind of a so called "kitty" bar. The whole going over this band doesn't happen. You have to practice the first form of pole vault that you learn on the ground, except now it's in the air. Day by day, a pole vaulter learns form, literally from the ground up, till one day you get to actually put the puzzle together and perform the jump. Maybe one day I'll actually get to pole vault.