Alysha Newman performs gymnastic feats that even the best athletes in the NFL, NBA and MLB cannot. In fact, 99+% of ALL the top male athletes on the planet cannot match this young woman's scope of physical endeavors. This phenomenal athlete is a prime example for the results of existing “traditional” miseducation because, although she has extraordinary gymnastics abilities, Alysha's pole vault potential is strictly limited by her continued naive application of lethal “traditional” wrong-way pole vault methods that defy rationality. To put it bluntly: Alysha goes to the trouble to stay in "shape" and, then, flushes all that work down the toilet using flawed "traditional" vaulting procedures!
Alysha Newman is capable of EASILY exceeding 5.5 meters (18 feet) if she changes to proper AIR STRIKE POLE VAULT technique and sheds her wrong-way "traditional" miseducation. ALYSHA'S SIMPLE REMEDY TO REACH HER POTENTIAL HEIGHTS IS AIR STRIKE'S HORIZONTAL FLEXED POLE ROTATION!
These are my WARNINGS to Alysha Newman and ALL vaulters attempting WRONG-WAY "traditional" pole vault methods:
NEVER USE FULL-SPEED APPROACH RUNS!
NEVER "BULL-PUSH" FLEXING POLES!
NEVER USE "TRADITIONAL" WRONG-WAY TEACHINGS!
Anyone with a minimal ability to deduce from the visible evidence in these images, can conclude that the "pole-bend" and body positioning are illogical. The obvious consequences of "traditional" WRONG-WAY pole vault teachings are Alysha's non-vertical diagonal ascent and minuscule apex (vertical distance) above her "grip" position. (Keep in mind, 80 years ago, Cornelius Warmerdam's apex was much greater than Alysha's while he used a bamboo stick with NO LANDING MATS.) You can see that, instead of having "FLOWN" vertically SKYWARD from the TOP END of the flexible pole as its powerful built-in RECOIL was completing, Alysha is pushing herself diagonally from the side of the already fully straightened pole. Alysha then wrongly continues holding the straight pole all the way to the point where her feet have already descended below her "grip" position. These dangerous "traditional" wrong-way flaws can be quickly and easily corrected while ensuring far more successful vaulting results with proper Air Strike Acrobatic Pole Vault.
Because she is a gymnastically trained super athlete, Alysha Newman gets by with her wrong-way vaulting methods. It is also a simple conclusion, based on Alysha's examples, that the vulnerability of non-gymnastically skilled athletes to the high risk of "traditional" wrong-way pole vault catastrophes is exponential. This has been repeatedly verified throughout the decades by male vaulters who've been killed and injured. Unfortunately, harmful MISEDUCATION continues to thrive in this event, further endangering everyone, including female athletes attempting primitive "traditional" risky wrong-way pole vault concepts.
THE ABOVE WARNINGS CANNOT BE OVERSTATED AS NEITHER CAN THE FOLLOWING:
AIR STRIKE HORIZONTAL FLEXED POLE ROTATION and LEVERAGE principles produce innovative methods that can be utilized with consistent near-perfect VERTICAL TRAJECTORY time after time, which is contrary to predictably inconsistent and inept "traditional" high-risk pole vault methods.
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