Crossbars can be a real pain in the a**

[dbulick]

I don't know man for some reason the bars break or give when you land on them from 16' but when you land on em from 6' all they do is bruise and hurt like a mo fo. Ha try it some time.

[Skyin' Brian]

actually i think there may be something to the high jump hurting more. my girlfriend has hurt her back on a high jump crossbar and she was a heptathlete last year and not even that high a jumper(she is a vaulter this year but that is a different story). but think of the fact that you have a lot more time on the way down to position yourself for a safer fall onto a crossbar. also, when you land with more force maybe the fact that the mat will compress more and the bar will absorb less of the impact than from a shorter fall. but ive messed myself up on crossbars many times and not tried high jump never broken a bar though.

[dbulick]

By the way my name is Dan Bulick, I am a sophmore decathalete at Texas A&M if any of you were wondering, I haven't been posting on here much. I actually considered transfering to UC, but that's a different story.

[vaultin chris]

our decathlete Chris Wineberg is a BEAST. He just scored 5616 this past weekend

[Skyin' Brian]

our decathlete Chris Wineberg is a BEAST. He just scored 5616 this past weekend

im confused. was that in a hep?

[vaultin chris]

the hep my bad
it was a huge mark, shattered our school record and is a d1 auto mark, but we cant go to NCAAs anyway, that makes 2 qualifiers, maybe even champions, on our team that will have to represent at USATFs instead of NCAAs

[Skyin' Brian]

wow, that is really good. i didnt know the ncaa had a hep as a championship event indoors.

[vaultin chris]

this years the first i heard.

http://members.aol.com/rpodkam/d1mind04.txt

[dbulick]

Ya they finally put in a Multi-event in at indoor NC's bout time I say. They have had them at conference meets just not the big one.

[Robert schmitt]

As far as the cross bar hurting more in the HJ. I wonder if it is because in the pole vault you have enough force to break the bar there for your body is not absorbing as musch of the impact.

Kind of like in karate. I've watched guys break cement block with thier head and the only time I've see someone in pain is when they don't break the block.