Great practice last night! 5m 14.5 from 14 steps!

I have NEVER been on a 5m 14.5 pole from only 14 steps. I was killin the 14.9 and just lovin it! I don't know what it is that's allowing me to get on these bigger poles lately, but things are workin! I blew threw my 4.90m 17.0 from 10 steps last night too! Instead of going up, I just moved back to 14 steps to take as many jumps from that run as possible. Ryan and I jumped till it got dark again, and boy was he lookin good. He was blowin through poles too and jumpin on a couple bigger poles from 10 steps than he's ever jumped on. Our runway is set up behind our KU softball field, like I mentioned before, so it's just in a little field. It's not the ideal set up because of the unevenness of the ground. The runway was some ups and downs along the approach and it was tryin to mess with me last night but I managed to hang in there most of the time. My thoughts are... If I can jump on that runway, I can jump on just about any runway. Right before the takeoff, a few steps out, there's a drop where you kind of sink while you're running. I dont know how many of you have experience with this sort of thing, but if you don't, it's extremely difficult to be as tall as you can at the plant. It messes up your whole pole drop and your rhythm while you're trying to quicken up at the end of your approach. Anyway, on a few of the jumps, I didn't plant the pole because I felt extremely low and like I was diving into the takeoff, but the rest of the jumps were awesome! We were mostly working on swinging back further while I'm inverting. I usually swing my feet to the pole and kick out at the bar. On big poles, this usually works ok, for the lower bars. But once you get to the big boy bars, it doesn't cut it anymore. I HAVE to swing upside down past the pole in order to move my energy upwards instead of outwards towards the bar. We were really getting somewhere last night too, and I'm really excited about Kentucky. I feel like I can get on some pretty beefy poles this weekend, which I'm really anxious for. Almost a little too anxious. I can't let myself force my way onto bigger poles, I gotta just let it happen and run and jump the same way every time, no matter how big the pole is. That's always been a big challenge for me as well as tons of other vaulters. It's a mindset thing that is difficult to control, but you have to if you wanna be good. Ok I gotta start doing some work here at the office, ha. I don't think I'm getting paid to blog but i get in what I can. I've been super busy lately with this Grad Assistant job. I love it so far, but I have to practice at nights and that really takes up my whole day. I wanted to get a lifting session in this morning at 7am, but fell back asleep after I turned off my alarm. Oh well, I can lift later, I just wanted more time this afternoon to do some preparatory work for this weekend! I mean gosh, I gotta cut my hair, bleach it, and color it all before I leave Friday! Talk about hard work! Alright I really gotta go. I'll keep you posted on my progress as I prepare for the Jammin' and Jumpin' Street Vault in Henderson, Kentucky this Saturday! And remember, if you ever have any detailed questions about my training or meets or job or anything else, just leave a comment and I'll respond!