{"id":4073,"date":"2021-03-12T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2021-03-12T07:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:05:29","slug":"pole-vault-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/pole-vault-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pole Vault and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Track Coach<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was a track coach for forty years.&nbsp;&nbsp;I guess \u201cwas\u201d may be the wrong tense, I still \u201cconsult\u201d, helping coaches and athletes with my hard-gained \u201cwisdom\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;And I\u2019m now officiating the sport again, so I keep my hand in.&nbsp;&nbsp;Over that forty years I gained experience in every track and field event contested in high schools, and even some that are not.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s easier to list what I don\u2019t know much about:&nbsp;&nbsp;the weight and hammer throws, and race walking.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have some understanding of javelin, a lot more about triple jump and steeplechase, and tons on the other \u201cregular\u201d track events we contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the one area of \u201cexpertise\u201d that I worked on the most was in the pole vault.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s exciting: the athlete races towards a big foam mat, holding a long fiberglass pole.\u00a0\u00a0He places the pole in a metal \u201cbox\u201d in the ground, and then launches up over a crossbar:\u00a0\u00a0the higher the better.\u00a0\u00a0When all goes right, the athlete clears the crossbar without knocking it off, and lands in the soft mat.\u00a0\u00a0When it doesn\u2019t bad things can occur.\u00a0\u00a0As a coach, my first job was to make sure those bad things didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vitaly Petrov<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like any technical event, there are several ways to \u201cskin the cat\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am an adherent of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vitaly_Petrov_(coach)\">Petrov Method<\/a>\u201d, developed in Russia in the late 1980\u2019s and early 1990\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp;They dominated the world for more than two decades, and the physics behind their technique makes the most sense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 90\u2019s I was a \u201cstrict interpreter\u201d of Petrov.\u00a0\u00a0What he did worked, and anything else was, I thought, just wrong.\u00a0\u00a0For the athletes I worked with every day that wasn\u2019t a problem.\u00a0\u00a0They learned everything from me, so they only knew my techniques.\u00a0\u00a0But when I coached other athletes and coaches, I struggled with those that used different methodologies.\u00a0\u00a0In my mind at the time I was doing them a disservice by not changing them to \u201cPetrov\u201d, and anything less wasn\u2019t 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class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vaulting and Life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I expect there are very few readers who want to learn any more about pole vault today (though I\u2019d be happy to teach you!!).\u00a0\u00a0But the point is that technical purity, like ideological purity, does not stand up to the test of use \u201cin the field\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0That sometimes we have to compromise to achieve success, and to work with others who have different views than ourselves.\u00a0\u00a0Technical or ideologic purity sounds great:\u00a0\u00a0but it isn\u2019t how \u201cthe sausage is made\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sometimes you need to allow some flexibility in order to get something done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, that all depends on what you want to achieve.&nbsp;&nbsp;For many in our politics today, ideologic purity is far more important than achievement.&nbsp;&nbsp;And for some, it\u2019s really not about ideas, but personality.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you\u2019re for a particular former President, then you are against anything and everything that the current President wants to do.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s about success, not ideas.&nbsp;&nbsp;They don\u2019t want Mr. Biden to have any success, regardless of what\u2019s \u201cgood\u201d for America.&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe that\u2019s not fair \u2013 perhaps they don\u2019t believe that anything Mr. Biden would do for America is \u201cgood\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ain\u2019t That America<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It reminds me of a problem I had as a coach back in the 1980\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp;Track and Field, and pole vault in particular, is an event that crosses \u201cteam\u201d boundaries.&nbsp;&nbsp;Kids who want to vault learn from others \u2013 and a lot of schools don\u2019t have the expertise on staff.&nbsp;&nbsp;So I would help kids from all over the County and even beyond.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was talk (mostly behind my back) that I was \u201churting\u201d my kids by helping others.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our vault &#8220;squad&#8221; had conversations about that.\u00a0\u00a0I told my kids that they had me twenty-four\/seven.\u00a0\u00a0If the few hours I might spend helping someone else who didn\u2019t have a pole vault coach get better meant they lost in competition \u2013 that was on us, not on the kid that got better.\u00a0\u00a0We OUGHT to be better \u2013 we did it full time.\u00a0\u00a0If we made some competitor a thirteen-footer, then we better go fourteen.\u00a0\u00a0And most of the time, we did go higher.\u00a0\u00a0We made the entire event better \u2013 for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u201cAin\u2019t that America\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0Instead of being a zero-sum, we win &#8211; you lose game, shouldn\u2019t we be trying to make everyone better?\u00a0\u00a0Whether it\u2019s raising the minimum wage, providing cash to taxpayers to help with COVID 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