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Another pole break caught on video

Unread postby mcminkz05 » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:01 pm

I don't know about anyone else, but I never get tired of watching poles explode. This video is from a vault session earlier today, my buddy Randle broke a 14'6 185 Carbon FX which I happened to get on tape. Enjoy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dAUVhBfk9C4
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Unread postby powerplant42 » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:16 pm

Haha, niiice... Didn't look like he did anything to break it though... Just one of the billions of those crappy carbon fx poles! ;)
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Unread postby vault3rb0y » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:56 pm

fo rizzle my nizzle (sweet music) lol. Looks to me like it was a knick in the top of the pole near his hand?
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Unread postby SlickVT » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:19 pm

Maybe the pole hit got nicked by one of the other poorly placed poles on the front buns... Hmmm...
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:43 pm

SlickVT wrote:Maybe the pole hit got nicked by one of the other poorly placed poles on the front buns... Hmmm...


That's gotta be the worst place ever to keep poles. All it takes is one guy coming up short and landing on a few poles in his spikes... hmm maybe that is what happened to the pole that broke.
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Unread postby mcminkz05 » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:54 pm

That pole never got touched by another pole or spikes.. We just set the poles down on the pit while we set up the runway forgetting about them, obviously after this one broke we moved them.
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Unread postby nitro » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:35 pm

powerplant42 wrote:Haha, niiice... Didn't look like he did anything to break it though... Just one of the billions of those crappy carbon fx poles! ;)


ive jumped on pacer fx and carbon fx my whole life and never broke one
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Unread postby powerplant42 » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:54 pm

Sarcasm. The Carbon FX is probably one of the safest poles out there. COME ON NOW! :D
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Unread postby Tim McMichael » Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:01 pm

For a pole to break right beneath the bottom hand first, it has to have been damaged there. If a pole is broken from overbending, it always breaks in the center first.
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I got on my back right away and cranked on it hard

Unread postby rlynn2 » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:57 am

That was my goal on that jump to get upside down and fly over that 17'6 bungy with this pole. A month before the break this pole flew me over a 17'6 clean bungy from about 76feet. Since then I have been jumping in my backyard. The set up has a slight down hill and maybe a 9 inch box. I think that has something to do with the break. Yeah I should have broken it from that short run. Darn. I think I just jumped up over the sail piece. I was leaning into the plant a lot. It was pretty fun breaking that pole. I wish I still had it. It was a good one and brand new one too.
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:56 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO6Ope_aIOY
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Unread postby AVC Coach » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:06 pm

I always like to dig around in the broken fiberglass with my hands to somehow determine the cause! :confused:
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