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- Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:22 am
- Forum: Pole Vault - Historical
- Topic: dave roberts on pole vaulting and life
- Replies: 3
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Re: dave roberts on pole vaulting and life
Strange to stumble onto this. Thanks for everyone's kind words. I may have written this obscurely. I have to dig deep to pull this up, and I may be completely off, but I think the physics is close: F=ma. The force the vaulter encounters from the pole at takeoff is a complex product of mass and accel...
- Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:07 am
- Forum: Pole Vault - Historical
- Topic: Dave Roberts video
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14415
Re: Dave Roberts video
That was Olympic Trials 1972 in Eugene. I was holding 15-6 and it was one of the worst vaults ever. I think the bar was at 5.40, but certainly no higher. The pole was one of the then-fairly-new green pacers. It was one of George's and Herb's early experiments with a broad sail-piece (you should have...