Topic: Dash Vault Tips

[Adam "Echo" C]

Anybody have some tips on the dash vault? How should I start training for this one? What obstacles is it best used for (height, breadth)?

[Adam Kuebler]

The way I learned was to find a fairly low and a wall about the width of you hands. Start by simply jumping over the wall. Keep doing that and then start going into a pike (legs together straight out in front of you). Basically you will be in a sitting position jumping over the wall. Then start to go closer to the wall and touch it on your way over. As you get used to this you can start putting more and more weight on your hands and pushing off. Voila, a dash. From here begin changing certain things, finding what works best for you to get the most fluidity and speed out of the vault. And finally begin applying different places. Hope that helps!

[elyas_al_temimi2]

yea start with something really low and jump with ONE foot! and if you didn't get it try w/ the other foot
GOOD LUCK!

[Jereme Sanders]

I'd say the jumping over method of learning this vault just teaches bad technique in the long run. What I'd suggest so that you can eventually get to a very nice and strong dash would be to start on something soft, preferably about belly button height and what you should be doing is hurdling over the obstacle with just enough power that if you were to not place your hands down you would land in a sit. If you work with that technique and then work to putting your hands down instead of your butt and at that moment exploding out with your legs you will kind of get the idea of how a dash should be. This technique also helps make sure you don't get the bad habit of coming down hard on a dash or lacking any exit distance power. Hope that made sense, best of luck man