the track itself it's changed twice
it's really a great setup hello everyone
it's monte duplantis here
i just caught eyes with the girl that
was driving the car then i lost my focus
hello everyone this is monica planus
here world record holder in the pole
vault
and welcome to my training facility for
the past two months
i'm here at my parents house where i
grew up
where i started this whole journey of
athletics
we have here a very important piece of
equipment for a pole vaulter which is
of course his poles this is just a
little bit of the
collection of the poles i used to jump
on when i was younger still work very
well
no matter how beat up or old they look
we have this big bushy thing i don't
even know what you call this exactly but
this always seems to overgrow and
lead its way into the track so every
once in a while we have to
chop it down and we freshly chopped it a
week or two ago
it doesn't look really clean but
i have a direct path to the box now
without having to go through
these trees
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the truck itself it's changed twice
first we used to do it
this way and it was just a flat track on
the grass but it was very bumpy
so we just kind of had this metal frame
that we got
and just put plywood on top and then
laid the track on top there so
it's a lot more flat even and actually a
little bouncy when you run so
it's always been a fast track
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at this 20-foot high rope built from the
tree
i've been using this ever since i was
just a little kid started out
using every part of my body to get up to
that rope and now i could pretty much
just use my arms
try to keep the feet straight maybe even
get a little abs out of it
but um
another useful uh device for pole
vaulting in this
nice little backyard you know have this
exercise here don't really know
exactly what to call it but i'll
demonstrate
exactly what it does it's kind of a
resistance
to do a a pull-up motion
this is kind of what i do when i'm on
the pool
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this is the pit here's what we have to
land on in order to save ourselves
here's the box which is a magnet for
water
even on days where i'm pretty sure it
doesn't rain somehow water still gets
into that box
it gets a little bit sketchy and not
safe when you start getting too high
because
there is my neighbor's brick wall that
borders the pit
so yeah try to keep the heights as low
as i can and
my approaches as short as i can in these
times just to work on some technical
things so
i'm not jumping that high so i don't
miss too much and land on a brick wall
that wouldn't be fun so obviously
not quite at full capacity right now i
can't do my full training
but still really fortunate enough to
have this great facility for me
in the backyard
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