COUNTDOWN TO

SPRING CAMPS 2012:

Greetings and Happy New Year!

The time is coming for our 2012 track season, so my fellow coaches and I are getting excited to engineer the most productive and attractive pole vault camp experience we can devise.  As many athletes are making use of the weekly clinic sessions of my colleague Pat Licari at the U of W, I am mindful that there is a need for my camps to be more comprehensive, more custom- tailored to ability and more cost- efficient per hour of instruction than anything else available.  As always, we will offer 15 hours of intensive practice and classroom time each weekend with a staff of coaching superstars who have been raising champions for decades. 

As always, approach, plant, take-off and swing –up drills will be enhanced by classroom theory and video analysis of yourself every day. Also, as always, we will make your group so small you can’t possibly endure more repetitions for a whole weekend without breaking down.  This is the magic number of about 10 athletes per group.  We’ve tried smaller groups and had people limping all over the camp by Saturday afternoon.  This year we will give more advanced athletes a little less of what they need (fundamentals) and a little more of what they want (full vaults).  I will also provide attending coaches with a more detailed system for planning practices that train athletes most safely and productively.  It is one thing to understand the theory of correct vaulting, but going home without a concrete plan for getting there leaves you reliant upon our next camp for more progress. 

Due to the availability of other clinics and to the pressure families like mine feel during this recession, we’re rolling our tuition back to 2003 with early registration.  $150 means an astonishing $10 per hour with highly individualized attention and small groups.  So far as I know, there is not a more comprehensive track camp value in our country, and I’ve participated in many over the years.  Remember also that I have updated my popular Learning To Fly video with a brand new and much more thorough creation called Coaches Survival Guide for Pole Vaulting .   This is about a 3 hour double disc with updated drills, strength development routines and full season lesson plans for coaches.  I can ship for $50 or can hand you one at camp for $40. 

I hope to see you soon.