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Billy Olson Video?
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:05 pm
by BethelPV
Hey everybody, just wondering if anybody has any video of Billy Olson, who just happens to be my favorite vaulter.
If not any good pictures or even stories of his glory days would be awesome from those who were around when he was jumping!!
Thanks!
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:31 am
by rainbowgirl28
Do you have his book?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:51 pm
by BethelPV
Yeah I do have his book, that is a great resource for pictures! I totally wasn't even thinking about that...
Does anyone have any video though?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:04 pm
by hallvaulter
i think i remember my dad having some old reels of a lot of those guys from back in the day when he was at A&M, im not sure tho, nor do i know a way he could get it off the reels.
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:20 pm
by vaultmd
hallvaulter wrote:i think i remember my dad having some old reels of a lot of those guys from back in the day when he was at A&M, im not sure tho, nor do i know a way he could get it off the reels.
Man, now I really feeling old. Old reels? Billy is way younger than I am.
BTW, he went to Baylor.
Or was it ACU?
Or both?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:47 pm
by hallvaulter
ACU i believe
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:50 pm
by rainbowgirl28
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:00 pm
by Lax PV
I may be mistaken if he is in them of not, but there are some clips from the 80s of vaulting on Neovault 3... might be a couple years past him, but its a great dvd set either way. There is also a dvd out on eBay that is just of the 88 Olympics, every jump from a variety of angles. Plays the same song over and over, but I guess thats what you get for 7 bucks.
video of billy olson
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:06 am
by Vault Chick
what about Don Hood's video??? Do you have that one, because that video has some Billy Olson in it.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:21 am
by achtungpv
vaultmd wrote:hallvaulter wrote:i think i remember my dad having some old reels of a lot of those guys from back in the day when he was at A&M, im not sure tho, nor do i know a way he could get it off the reels.
Man, now I really feeling old. Old reels? Billy is way younger than I am.
BTW, he went to Baylor.
Or was it ACU?
Or both?
He went to both. Baylor first. My HS coach was his roommate there. BU didn't have much of a vault program so he transferred to ACU after his freshman year.
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:24 am
by vaultmd
Thanks, Shawn.
That's what I thought I remembered from his book, but when I googled him and didn't see any mention of Baylor, I started to think my brain was starting to act its age.
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:54 am
by lucasg8
yeah billy olson went to ACU if you will remember former american record holder Brad Pursley and Billy went to ACU at the same time. try going to ACUs website i bet you can find the video through there..