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I too add my condolences to Jenny and family. My thoughts are with you in this difficult time. I knew Alan through his pole vault camps here in the United States and then through his posts on PVP and eventually through some email exchanges. He helped this old man become a better vaulter and I am ind...

UPDATE: Attention vaulters planning to attend the Masters National Champs next week. Just in case you don't want to deal with transporting your poles, there will be a large inventory of poles at the pit which you can rent. This is coordinated by Noel Ruebel (NoelRuebel@fcds.org), the meet director. ...

Bubba had an idea for a t-shirt design and asked my wife Jodi to bring it to fruition. (As a side note, she designed a couple of the Pole Vault Power t-shirts a few years back.) Back on topic, her design is shown below and is available on many styles of shirts, hats and mugs at her Zazzle store at h...

Congratulations Don. I hope to see you at a meet this year.

I had intended to make an update post about Wolfgang's amazing feats a while back. I didn't get to it then so here it is now. As Wolfgang wrote in an email, in May he was competing in ideal conditions. As he progressed and was ready to attempt to improve his WR, he had the bar set to 4.12, a modest ...

It was only a matter of time (and not much time at that) before Wolfgang would set the M60 age group record. He did it in style with the jump as seen in this video http://www.evaa.ch/files/movies/WolfgangRitte_Wipperfuerth.mov vaulting 4.11m, improving the record by 7cm! Congratulations Wolfgang! :y...

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Results for those vaulters starting at 12' or above: (scroll window for all names) Name Age 12-0 12-6 13-0 13-6 14-0 14-6 15-0 15-6 16-0 Luke McKay 19 P P XO O XO O XXP O XXX Eric Jorgensen 2O P P P P O XO XO XXP X Trevor Prater 20 P P P O O O XXX Scott Elliott 22 P P P P O O XXP X Zachery Olivera 2...

May I begin by telling you a bit about myself? I am a Pole Vault Nobody. In fact, I have been assigned by the Monitor of this board as PV Wannabe. Unless I am mistaken, the assignment of "PV Wannabe" is based solely on the number of posts made. As you make more posts, your descriptor will...

Alan Launder has written an article that he asked me to make available on PVP. Below is the introductory paragraph and a link to download the four page document in pdf format. BUBKA, UNIQUE, A ONE OFF, OR DID HE REPRESENT A GENERIC "TECHNICAL MODEL" INTRODUCTION Sergey Bubka first appeared...

Thanks for all you do Becca. The honor is well deserved.

(http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/keeganburnett Tribute to Keegan Richard Burnett Written 10 hours ago by Alice Burnett (Keegan's mother) Saturday, September 15, 2012 we had a beautiful memorial service for Keegan in Sweet Home. Hundreds of people attended in the same church Keegan attended through...