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What do I do with a HUGE pole?!
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:02 pm
by Fo_Sheezy
Last season I borrowed an 11' Pacer Mystic from another school to vault on. It was really light, really short, and really bendy and I vaulted great. However, this season that school and our school are on bad terms and I am not allowed to borrow their poles. So I am stuck with the pole at our school: a 13'6" 140# (I am 130) really heavy and stiff Skypole, blah. I don't know what to do with it, I am more than 2 and 1/2 feet from the top of the pole, its too heavy and I can't bend it! Any ideas?
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:38 pm
by KYLE ELLIS
cap it and back your run up to 18 steps and drive the crap out of it! Just kidding, see if your coach can find a school maybe to borrow or swap poles with.
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:49 pm
by rainbowgirl28
If you are stuck with that pole you are going to have to straight pole. There is no way you are going get near enough to the top to be bending it.
I agree that you should look into borrowing from other schools, or talk to your parents about chipping in for one. Maybe they can split the cost with you, or make it an early birthday present, easter present, whatever.
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:12 pm
by mcminkz05
yeah, iv got the same problem as you right now. im stuck with a pole thats under my weight, or a pole thats way too big. lol, wonder how stiff-pole'in on a 15' 170's gonna go..
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:45 pm
by distancejumper
my school is kinda like that. our poles are too heavy for me. We borrow one for competition but have to train on one thats to heavy for most of us. This year where trying to by anew one. u should talk to your coach about getting one.