mcminkz05 wrote:Ok, my coach (school coach) and i tried to find other schools to borrow poles from, but theres only like me and one other guy around here that are really serious vaulters, and all the schools dont seem to have a good pole selection either. Actually theres a few schools that borrow poles from us, but none had sizes i needed. See heres the dealw ith our school.. All our poles are pretty old, and we actually have a decent number of them. But the sizes pretty much skip from like 140's to 180's. So we have a to of small ones, which work for our other school vaulters cuz they are all small and not very good, but the big oens we have are BIG. I was looking through our pole closet, and there were a few 15+ to 16+ poles in there, but all high weight ratings. I weigh about 165, and need a range of like 13-6-15' poles. And about selling the poles, i suggestedit to my school coach, but as usual, i was pretty much ignored.I did mention though, if i could find a good deal on a small set of poels my parent might get em, but otherwise im gonna ahve to harrass my school into it, and that didnt seem to work very well. Ex: last year- we had a guy about 190, who was a decent vaulter, but we kept sayign he needed a pole, but the school ignored us, so he ended out jumping on one of the huge ones, holding down like 3 feet fromt he top, lol.
Bummer! I'm sure everyone here can relate to your situation. Unfortunately, it is not the exception but the norm. Maybe you can work out a deal with your parents, or someone, to buy you two poles (Ask for two, settle for one. Always ask for more than you want.
) and then work it off between now and the end of the school year... if you can pass mom and dad's credit check. 
