I used to pole vault way back in middle school, so many of these physical instructions became second nature to me after trying this out a few times. Now, I'm not claiming I'm any good competition when it comes to high jumping, but I got the hang of it after a few tries when I was at a track over spring break. However I did notice a few places where you might want to make a few implementations. I think if you referred to your diagrams a little more it might be useful to your beginners. You could put a figure number under them and in your body of instructions say something like, "As seen in figure 1.1 drive the knee....." Just a thought that might make things a bit clearer for those that aren't used to thinking in such spatial ways. Here's the answers to the questions you requested for you usability test:
1. How long is the approach?
10 steps
2. During the curve portion is the athlete still accelerating?
No, as stated in the instructions, it is important to stay consistent with speed.
3. During the flight phase do you still drive your knee?
Yes, once again as stated in the instructions, when the athlete leaves the ground the knee
should continue to drive up.
When I was in high school, I high jumped when we needed points. Not really saying that I am an expert at high jumping since I was a shot put and discus thrower.
For the questions for the novice:
1) 10 steps
2) No, you need to maintain a consistent speed.
3) Yes, continue to drive your knee after leaving the ground.
I have just a few suggestions.
For the novice instructions:
For Phase 1, I would consider changing “progress” to accelerate. I think using this would help the novice to focus increasing their speed.
Phase 2, I was comparing the 2 sets of instructions and you don’t have keeping your shoulder back while in the phase.
And a suggestion would be having the novice to lay out pieces of tape to get use for following the curve of the path. I used this when trying to get my steps.
While following you instructions I went through all of the steps except for actually jumping. I set up a mock jump in my parking lot to follow to get the concept then practiced driving my knee up at the end. I could understand and follow both instructions and do the same thing with both.
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I used to pole vault way back in middle school, so many of these physical instructions became second nature to me after trying this out a few times. Now, I'm not claiming I'm any good competition when it comes to high jumping, but I got the hang of it after a few tries when I was at a track over spring break. However I did notice a few places where you might want to make a few implementations. I think if you referred to your diagrams a little more it might be useful to your beginners. You could put a figure number under them and in your body of instructions say something like, "As seen in figure 1.1 drive the knee....." Just a thought that might make things a bit clearer for those that aren't used to thinking in such spatial ways. Here's the answers to the questions you requested for you usability test:
1. How long is the approach?
10 steps
2. During the curve portion is the athlete still accelerating?
No, as stated in the instructions, it is important to stay consistent with speed.
3. During the flight phase do you still drive your knee?
Yes, once again as stated in the instructions, when the athlete leaves the ground the knee
should continue to drive up.
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Zebulon Rouse
When I was in high school, I
When I was in high school, I high jumped when we needed points. Not really saying that I am an expert at high jumping since I was a shot put and discus thrower.
For the questions for the novice:
1) 10 steps
2) No, you need to maintain a consistent speed.
3) Yes, continue to drive your knee after leaving the ground.
I have just a few suggestions.
For the novice instructions:
For Phase 1, I would consider changing “progress” to accelerate. I think using this would help the novice to focus increasing their speed.
Phase 2, I was comparing the 2 sets of instructions and you don’t have keeping your shoulder back while in the phase.
And a suggestion would be having the novice to lay out pieces of tape to get use for following the curve of the path. I used this when trying to get my steps.
While following you instructions I went through all of the steps except for actually jumping. I set up a mock jump in my parking lot to follow to get the concept then practiced driving my knee up at the end. I could understand and follow both instructions and do the same thing with both.
Zebulon Rouse