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Great pole break video
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:13 pm
by lonestar
Don't know if this was ever posted on here, but...
Kevin Galbreath of Texas State at the 2006 Texas Relays:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... lays&hl=en
Video
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:47 pm
by Vault Chick
Yeah, that video was pretty good! I kept watching it over and over again! lol It was amazing how loud it was when the pole broke!
looked like he kicked the pole?
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:04 am
by Bruce Caldwell
Looks like he kicked the pole to me what do you all think?
Bruce
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:47 am
by OUvaulterUSAF
let me guess it was a carbon. and he probably pulled too hard with his top hand.
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:14 am
by SlickVT
Looks like a Spirit. And the problem was that he pulled down on the top hand, but only because he didn't bend the pole past 90 degrees before taking off...
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:49 pm
by nitro
i heard that the part of the pole that broke that went flying backwards went 100 feet back and hit the bell....but that might just have been a rumor
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:10 pm
by lonestar
nitro wrote:i heard that the part of the pole that broke that went flying backwards went 100 feet back and hit the bell....but that might just have been a rumor
It broke into about 5 pieces, and the handle did hit the bell - you can hear it in the video, ever so faintly...
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:18 pm
by lonestar
OUvaulterUSAF wrote:let me guess it was a carbon. and he probably pulled too hard with his top hand.
5 meter 185 (15.5?) UCS Spirit
He couldn't penetrate into the pit on it the week before - this was his first attempt on it since that meet a week before.
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:16 pm
by polevaulter08nw
he was on a 16'4 pole!? i can't see that?! was he really
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:58 am
by lonestar
polevaulter08nw wrote:he was on a 16'4 pole!? i can't see that?! was he really
16'4.75" actually
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:10 pm
by jcoover
i bet that one stung the palms a bit... anyone know if the pole was dinged up at all? ive never seen a pole explode like that...
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:01 pm
by lonestar
jcoover wrote:i bet that one stung the palms a bit... anyone know if the pole was dinged up at all? ive never seen a pole explode like that...
It wasn't dinged at all that anyone could see, unless it was dinged under the wrap. Still, when you're breaking poles into more than 2 pieces, it's generally an overload break, and not a damage break.