6.15 in Rome. Now has indoor and outdoor world records.
6.15 in Rome. Now has indoor and outdoor world records.
ALL HAIL THE KING
Superstar. He's going to keep going higher.
The wild factoid of the day is Mondo lost to Chris MF Nilsen in the NCAA Championships just 15 months ago. If Nilsen doesn't amount to much as a pro, he can still hold onto that one forever.
Incredible feat by this guy.
It is so great to see and share in his joy at achieving his dream.
Great inspiration.
How is a skinny runt like him the best pole vaulter? Put him in the gym for a year and he will vault 7 meters
Bad Wigins wrote:
How is a skinny runt like him the best pole vaulter?
Think genes and vaulting from a very young age might have to do with it. Kendricks/Lavillenie have similarly lean and wiry frames. You don't have to be jacked like Lisek to do well.
Anyone know what Greg looked like when vaulting? I don't remember and searches only bring up old-Greg and Armand.
This is among the most likely clean WR's. If Mondo is on anything anabolic, it isn't working.
cause he ain't running distance, dweeb!
That's pretty cool.
He's a rock star.
20' 2" for we Americans
Bad Wigins wrote:
How is a skinny runt like him the best pole vaulter? Put him in the gym for a year and he will vault 7 meters
lol, so ignorant.
because the best athletes are those who can maximize their mechanical ability and power output while minimizing their size (inversely applicable to height up to a point). that kid is definition vaulter optimum. gym for a year will give him more absolut strength, but you can't guarantee he'll be able to use it, thus the extra muscle and size become a disadvantage.
waxonist wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:
How is a skinny runt like him the best pole vaulter? Put him in the gym for a year and he will vault 7 meters
lol, so ignorant.
because the best athletes are those who can maximize their mechanical ability and power output while minimizing their size (inversely applicable to height up to a point). that kid is definition vaulter optimum. gym for a year will give him more absolut strength, but you can't guarantee he'll be able to use it, thus the extra muscle and size become a disadvantage.
Just because you wrote about the person being ignorant: one can get stronger and develop more power without putting on a ton of muscle.
Sissy Swed?
It's amazing how terrible and how great he can look at the event from attempt to attempt. Even during this meet, around 5.85m, he went straight up and down and almost hurt himself. Then in the next attempt, he had a huge clearance of 5.85m, probably clearing world record height already. It looked like nearly two feet above the bar. In the previous meet that I saw, he had three terrible attempts at 6.15m after going quickly through the field. He'll do that in most meets, but when he's on, he gets the easiest height of anyone. As for his unusual build, you have to look at this guy as someone who started training in the pole vault a decade earlier than almost anyone else in the world, with backyard pole vaulting before he started kindergarten (all of this development in the United States, mind you).
Incredible. Efficiently built from conception to be the ultimate pole vaulter. Still remember the last time I pole vaulted (if you can call what I did that) for fun and screwed up my back. Coach was pissed because I was our best high and intermediate hurdler.
Luv2Run wrote:
waxonist wrote:
lol, so ignorant.
because the best athletes are those who can maximize their mechanical ability and power output while minimizing their size (inversely applicable to height up to a point). that kid is definition vaulter optimum. gym for a year will give him more absolut strength, but you can't guarantee he'll be able to use it, thus the extra muscle and size become a disadvantage.
Just because you wrote about the person being ignorant: one can get stronger and develop more power without putting on a ton of muscle.
Don’t worry. Mr. 2600 is the last person to be pointing fingers at ignorance.
Luv2Run wrote:
waxonist wrote:
lol, so ignorant.
because the best athletes are those who can maximize their mechanical ability and power output while minimizing their size (inversely applicable to height up to a point). that kid is definition vaulter optimum. gym for a year will give him more absolut strength, but you can't guarantee he'll be able to use it, thus the extra muscle and size become a disadvantage.
Just because you wrote about the person being ignorant: one can get stronger and develop more power without putting on a ton of muscle.
lol the moment you said "a ton of" you missed the point, you're already inferring that there would be a gain in mass anyways. on that note, that "without putting on a ton of" formula only works with our distance fellows, else you wouldn't see non-distance track athletes get more muscular with age. but nice try!
Ever seen a 100m sprinter, the power/weight ratio kind of goes way up with mass gain.
PV is exactly the same kind of 10 second effort. Put muscles on that kid and you'll see Bubka 2.0 record progression well into the 6.20s.