What to do w/ a broken pole

[wakesurfvault]

Sadly, I broke my favorite pole (1st time) in practice a few days ago and I don't really have a good idea of what to do w/ it. So what do you do (or have seen done) w/ broken poles?

[VaultMarq26]

Every time i break a pole i cut it down to about 2 feet in length and display it on my wall in my room.

[souleman]

Relay teams can use sections for batons. I got an 8 foot section from a high school I was working with and that's what I was teaching my 8 year old on ( a long time ago, he's 36 now). if it's long enough you can also use it for 1 or 2 step pop up drills. You can also have the shop kids fashion a "V" to put in the end and use it for a cross bar "putter upper". You can also take small sections and embed them in a Bondo base and use them for runway markers. And my favorite, use the longest pieces for an outside Christmas light "putter upper" (utilizing the same "V" in the end that the shop kids fashioned for you). Oh just let your imagination run wild........there's a multitude of things to do with the pieces. Later.................Mike

[wakesurfvault]

haha, i like the idea of displaying it in my room.

[Lax PV]

our "family'' room right now has 5 or 6 on display, we hang them from nails using dental floss, its worked pretty good for us so far

[master]

There are many uses from an exercise standpoint. A 3 ft section can be used (even indoors) to practice the motions of a plant, rock back, pull and push. A 4-5 ft section can become a pull up bar or a swing up bar by hanging it with a rope going through the length. (For this I also added some PVC end pieces so the rope wouldn't get cut by the fiberglass.) If there is a 8-9 ft section, I find that to be a good length to do pole run exercises with when it would not be good to drop the end of a pole on the ground. It is light enough and short enough that you can keep the tip in the air during the plant action. And I think the trophy piece is a great idea!

[jmpngblonde]

all the old broken poles at my school were filed and taped on the ends and used as stubbeys for running hurtles w and teaching new vaulters the plant w/o a huge pole in their hands...theres like 30 of them in a bucket in our shed...altho most guys i know who break poles keep half as a souvenir and put it up somewhere...:-)

[bjvando]

my teammate put his broken piece of pole on his stand up lamp, not sure what the name of it is, but its the tall ( roughly 6') pole like piece with a "bowl" like piece on top.....

it looks pretty cool- i might actually draw a picture of a vaulter in mid take off, and have a real pole mounted on the wall with the painted vaulter looking like he is using that pole.....

[VaultBrad]

what i do is take half and make a bar putter-upper, and another piecce comes home with me and stays in my room. i usually saw and sand the edges to make them smooth. mostly i just carry a stubby around my house all the time.

[RidinHigh]

I wish I could have thought of some of the things that you guys do when I broke my first pole. I have only broke one and I just sawed it into smaller pieces and threw it away. What was I thinking? I was young and inexperienced!

[OAKPV2004]

Crook beater.

[gbob]

Save up all your broken poles... when we had enough... (not to mention all the busted junk we cut up that was in our storage shed for WAY too long...) we made a couple of Adirondack (SP?) Chairs... (Back in 93')

i only wish i knew where they went off to... those chairs were very cool...

we drilled pilot holes in each of them and attached them all together with some smaller gauge bolts... I am sure someone could have come up with a better way to put it all together but it is what we did... like i said, the construction could have been a lot better- they werent too sturdy... but looked great... we used them to sun ourselves during and after practice.