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In college we had a decathlete who we would not let use any of our poles B/c he was like 220. So he had to vault on a 190 16' black catapole that he called black benny. Evidently there is a song with that theme. He would always walk around singing, Oh black benny
			
									
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One of our green skypoles was named "lester" @ 130#,12'
Sadly, Lester is gone now due to a spike about 5' from the business end. May he rest in pieces.
 
Actually, I stripped the tape off to use his larger member as a "teaching tool". He had 32 spike punctures, two bus seat dings and 60% tape on him when he went.
			
									
									One of our green skypoles was named "lester" @ 130#,12'
Sadly, Lester is gone now due to a spike about 5' from the business end. May he rest in pieces.
 
Actually, I stripped the tape off to use his larger member as a "teaching tool". He had 32 spike punctures, two bus seat dings and 60% tape on him when he went.

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IN HIGH SCHOOL LAST YEAR LOL
IN high school in 1969 to be exact I had a STP oil sticker on my pole.
The reason was I had so much pole swing I needed to Stop That Pole from hitting the crosssbar that at that time was a miss if it did!!!.
			
									
									
						The reason was I had so much pole swing I needed to Stop That Pole from hitting the crosssbar that at that time was a miss if it did!!!.
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We had a pole at Purdue we called the "wussy Pole". (grr....damn language filter...start it with a P) If you were having problems taking it it up or running through you had to take the rest of your jumps in practice on a pole with "P-U-S-S-Y" written in big black permanent marker on it.
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I high school we had and old brown skypole we used for drills we called the "poop pole"
 
			
									
									15'
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Spirit
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I high school we had and old brown skypole we used for drills we called the "poop pole"

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rainbowgirl28 wrote:ashcraftpv wrote:(grr....damn language filter...start it with a P)
Hehe I ought to make it replace damn with darn
haha, it took me a while to get that one!
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