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Can you name the vaulter?

Unread postby bvpv07 » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:08 pm

If anyone gets Newsweek magazine...did you notice the Shell advertisement on the back page?

"Shell is constantly raising the bar." with a picture of a pole vaulter in yellow just going over a crossbar after releasing his pole.

I tried to find a picture on the web, but alas, the search was fruitless.

Anyone know who the vaulter is?
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Unread postby Cooleo111 » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:45 pm

I don't know about the ad, but I just saw the commercial with Jeff Hartwig....I also noticed that he started out as a right handed vaulter, and later switched to a lefty when they shot him while inverting...and then back to righty again while finishing the jump.
Thank god for video editing!
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:57 pm

I just saw the ad Sami, I am pretty sure it is Scott Slover.

I'll try and take a picture of it with my digital camera so you guys can see it.
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Unread postby vaultmd » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:38 pm

Scott was the double they used for Jeff. He said they both had a blast with the commercial.
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Unread postby CrossBarHOpper » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:18 pm

j/w why was there a double
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Unread postby vault3rb0y » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:41 pm

because jeff tires easily.
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:26 am

vault3rb0y wrote:because jeff tires easily.


No he doesn't! He jumped a TON during the filming. You wouldn't believe how much vaulting they did over those two days. He said it was one of the hardest things he has ever done.
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Unread postby vaultmd » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:53 am

No joke. I've heard this from a variety of vaulters. The creative types that do the shooting have no idea how much it takes to do a vault. They would have the guys jump 100 times if they could.
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Unread postby Lax PV » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:27 am

Cooleo111 wrote:I don't know about the ad, but I just saw the commercial with Jeff Hartwig....I also noticed that he started out as a right handed vaulter, and later switched to a lefty when they shot him while inverting...and then back to righty again while finishing the jump.
Thank god for video editing!


That's an amazing observation!!! We knew something didnt look right, but we couldn't figure out what... the secret of the universe revealed...
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Unread postby bel142 » Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:10 pm

I was just out on the west coast and there is a very large bill board of that same shot im sure, My friends drove me out to it to tell them who it was, didn’t look like Jeff, but because I’ve seen the commercial I just assumed it was....
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:43 pm

bel142 wrote:I was just out on the west coast and there is a very large bill board of that same shot im sure, My friends drove me out to it to tell them who it was, didn’t look like Jeff, but because I’ve seen the commercial I just assumed it was....


It was probably Slover, though some people have told Hartwig they've seen a billboard with him on it.

If you can see the pole (I have no idea what the billboard looks like) and it is a Spirit it is Slover, carbon it is Hartwig.
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