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FAMOUS WAYS TO GAIN EXPERIENCE IN BREAKING VAULTING POLES
Take-off inside
Take-off outside
Over grip your pole
Never replace the pole tip
Kick the pole during the swing
Never catch your vaulting pole
Flex the pole in the vaulting box
Drive the box and sit on the pole
Never progress to the next stiffness pole
Jump on a pole that is below your weight
Slam the pole against the standards every time
Leave the pole out to be stepped on by spiked shoes
Let someone else use your pole with poor vaulting skills
Take too many lefts (rights for lefties) beyond your ability
Continue to jump on a pole that is spiked, scratched, or cracked

Let a football player come over, grab a pole, and say, "I bet I can do that!" Even if you tell them "You break it you buy it"... they will still do it anyway and will never pay for the pole!

jmayesvaultmom wrote:Let a football player come over, grab a pole, and say, "I bet I can do that!" Even if you tell them "You break it you buy it"... they will still do it anyway and will never pay for the pole!

They used to do that at the college that we used to practice at they never actually jumped though. Huge black guys

This was a stupid white guy about 195 pounds on a 155 something... Just jumped and sat on it!

How about letting a thrower try to take a jump on your pole!

or

Letting your pole hit the edge of concrete after every jump you take!

ooo ... crazy ideas.

My personal favorite is when the high jumpers lose their only bar and when im not around get the genious idea to grap a pole to try and use as a makeshift bar to jump over

mcminkz05 wrote:My personal favorite is when the high jumpers lose their only bar and when im not around get the genious idea to grap a pole to try and use as a makeshift bar to jump over

oh, come on, who hasnt tried that a time or two with a old pole that was never going to be used again

I do it all the time after I break a crossbar or two!

1. Leave them in sun for the summer, so they get all yellow and dry
2. Do not carry them in protective cases
3. Use a pole with no spiral wrap (so it has a lighter carry weight)
4. Jump on poles with knicks or spike marks
5. Don't jump up at take-off to help bend the pole more
6. Jump on large mandral poles with thin walls so that the buckeling effect is enhanced.
7. Run from too far on too small a pole
8. Get a tap
9. Tie them on your car with towels (especially large bundles).

~jj~ wrote:3. Use a pole with no spiral wrap (so it has a lighter carry weight)

I assume you are saying no tape on the pole not that the pole has to be a spiral wrap pole ie: skypole/pacer?LOL

~jj~ wrote:9. Tie them on your car with towels (especially large bundles).

lol really thats bad??.. i do that all the time with my poles lol.. is there any other way of transporting them with like a small car?