Pole got damaged

[Tincup1215]

Quick Background:

9 of us are vaulting today, all poles are on the stand or in the bag. No poles are ever allowed to sit on the ground. Also I have a rule that if a pole is not caught after a jump, everyone has to do 50 swing-ups, 50 Bubkas, and 2 laps before anyone is allowed to jump again. Need less to say, the athletes take great care of the poles.

Well what happened today is a girl tripped into the pole stand and stepped on a pole with her spikes on. After making sure she was ok, I then wanted to maim her because the pole she stepped on now has a 1/2 inch nick about 3 feet from the top.

Is there anyway to repair this? There is no way I'm having a kid jump on it now which sucks because it's one of our most used poles (14' 160). I'm still pretty pissed this happened.

Anything I can do?

[rainbowgirl28]

I'd say jump on it yourself and see if it breaks

[Tincup1215]

I'd say jump on it yourself and see if it breaks

I thought about purchasing a cup and wearing my old rib protectors from football and trying this out actually

[Decamouse]

Where is the nick -- compression side - tension side or nuetral axis side -- if tension (side that bends away from you) if the nick is in the long axis and did not cut through fibers probably ok

if on the compression side - it is an iffy issue - worst place

nuetral axis on either side - would need to be a big nasty for me to get overally worried --

hope that helps - I have some with spike pin holes - scratches etc -- depends where and how big a bender is using it

[indestructo]

Why take the chance? $400 vs serious to possible catastrophic injury..... I understand that location of the scratch matters, but seriously, why chance it... Its not repairable, its now a low-grip grill pole. I put a band of red tape around the top of the pole to identify it and pull it out for sand and box drills.