Seth Arnold is a post-collegiate Pole Vaulter who jumped at Texas State and after his final year he had shoulder surgery to repair his injuries. Anthoney is starting the process of bringing Seth on as an Athlete for strength and conditioning and corrective exercise, with plans to getting Seth to the Olympic Trials. Seth is a firefighter and an skydiver, so in this episode you get to learn about Seth’s passions and hear the start of his training with Anthoney.
0:30 Seth started Pole vaulting in 7th grade because of his father being a pole vaulter and having a pit in his back yard.
3:10 Seth enjoys doing gymnastics style workouts but never took classes on it, rather the workouts help with pole vaulting.
5:32 During his time pole vaulting against his brother in high school, he bet his brother’s personal record. Then broke his foot.
7:25 Seth first started vaulting at University of Houston then transitioned to Texas State.
10:49 Texas State’s Campus is amazing and has a clean and clear river running though it.
11:50 Seth’s coaching when he stated at Texas State and what made the biggest impact.
15:30 What makes the biggest difference for and athlete.
19:50 Seth’s dad wanted him to go listen to other coaching tactics to learn as much as he could about pole vaulting.
23:58 Armand "Mondo" Duplantis is a Swedish-American pole vaulter who jumped 19' 8 1/2"
27:26 Having an unbanned Olympic style competition since people are trying to use them and get caught.
29:22 The advancements in technologies such as tracks, shoes, pole, etc.
32:00 Understanding everything about a sport before you start coaching it makes a difference in training an athlete.
39:27 Drinking Dr.Pepper and jumping.
41:00 Seth has been firefighting for a year so far and he talks about his training with the department.
1:00:43 There is so much civilians don’t understand about the logistics of the emergency departments.
1:08:13 Skydiving and the process of flying solo and the things that can happen while pulling the parachute.
1:12:45 How the human body can’t get past certain anxiety of heights.
1:16:15 Seth talking Anthoney into skydiving.
1:24:31 Connecting pole-vaulting, Skydiving, and Firefighting.
1:28:00 Playing volleyball with Seth and learning how to play with people better than you.
1:36:19 Getting inside Seth’s head to understand his personality to help Anthoney better understand his desires and get him to the Olympics.