Describing the pole vault...

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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby Split » Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:15 pm

Alright, I'll make sure to take care of that next month. :yes:
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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby KirkB » Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:57 pm

The DVD is tied to the BTB2 book. They are presented by the same coach as the co-author of the book (Australian National Coach - Alan Launder) and reference each other, so it's a package deal. It's also a package price. Highly recommended! :yes:

Split wrote:... So there would be people that weren't even curious, they just didn't want to run, and we couldn't do anything about it. They no heighted at every meet, rarely showed up to practice, etc.


Split wrote:... I just want to make sure that all these kids are joining because they want to be good, not because they want to avoid running and get an easy A.


Still not sure how someone can NH, not show up to practice, and still get an A. Also not sure how extra-curricular sports give you "an easy A"?

Oh well. :confused:

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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby Split » Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:13 pm

Well, its not extracurricular. Freshman and sophomores are required to take two trimesters of gym. So they join track. They don't run, don't try, but if they make attendance then they get the A. Our school is pretty f'd up. :no:
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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby powerplant42 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:21 pm

So report them.
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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby Split » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:58 pm

Can't, up until this year we couldn't make any cuts.
Now we can. So hopefully it gets rid of problems. :yes:
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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby txpolevaulter_k25 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:44 pm

Split wrote:Well, its not extracurricular. Freshman and sophomores are required to take two trimesters of gym. So they join track. They don't run, don't try, but if they make attendance then they get the A. Our school is pretty f'd up. :no:


The sad part about this, is that it is like this in all high school sports. Not only your school.
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Unread postby Split » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:50 pm

It's not?
Oh...I thought it was just us. Our school is like the only one in the nation I think that only has 4 periods of class per trimester.

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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby txpolevaulter_k25 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:56 pm

Sry, I was talking about getting an A and not doing anything.
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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby Split » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:01 pm

Oh!
Haha. I hate it when I see that happening, but can't do anything about it.
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Unread postby txpolevaulter_k25 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:04 pm

Yeah, it actually isn't that big of a problem at our school, our ad will send you to p.e. if you don't try.
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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby Split » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:11 pm

txpolevaulter_k25 wrote:Yeah, it actually isn't that big of a problem at our school, our ad will send you to p.e. if you don't try.


Yeah, although some people actually go to track when they get cut from other sports. I'd like to see us dump off people onto gym. We had like 200 people on our track team this year.
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Re: Describing the pole vault...

Unread postby txpolevaulter_k25 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:15 pm

Wow, 200...thats like our entire high school lol. Gotta love 1a high schools!
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