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Do people tell you you are crazy...

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:37 pm
by JTred
...for pole vaulting? I get that reaction every time someone new finds out im a vaulter. I take it as a compliment.

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:11 pm
by distancejumper
the only person that says that is my Vault coach. HE says to pole-vault, you have to be crazy

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:58 pm
by souleman
Then at 53 and not doing it for 25 years I must be f@%(^*(no wait a minute, family show here), I must be nuts! You know what they say....if the shoe fits......... later..............Mike

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:36 pm
by mcminkz05
Yes.

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:42 am
by vaulter870
we are all crazy when you put it in to perspective who would want to take a sticka dn try and fling them selves over a really high bar. not a sane person

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:03 am
by Mecham
Everytime i see someone that would be good at vaulting (body type, etc.) i ask them if they would try it. They say i am too crazy to do anything like that. I think its wicked awesome

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:22 am
by Scott Go Pre
Well, I got told that I was crazy before and after I started pole vaulting. So I'm kind of used to it now. :P

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:28 pm
by CrossBarHOpper
My mom says I am the craziest person that shes ever meet not even for polevaulting

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:26 pm
by VaulteRachello
when people say im crazy, i take it as a compliment. rather be crazy than boring! ;)

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:37 pm
by CHC04Vault
Yeah, i'd rather be crazy than normal...normal people scare me. They just sit there...like there gonna plan something, u can't trust them.

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:52 am
by meg15078
Even if it is crazy you gotta live a little

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:52 pm
by izzystikchik
Yeah i get that "You're Crazy!" stuff, but then the question that always follows is "Aren't you scared?", and i'm like no not really...and they go on and say "whats it like to fall? Is it fun", well since i'm only a 10+ vaulter i don't fall as far as the elites, so i'm like "no i don't really remember what it feels like" and they are like "oh.."... :P