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Unread postby BigStick Club » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:27 pm

So, when you're practicing inverting, is it best to practice on a rope or a suspended straight pole?
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Unread postby bvpv07 » Sat Jun 11, 2005 2:32 am

We do it with a suspended straight pole (I don't really know what shape it would be in otherwise ;) ). However, our coach also has us linked up to a harness to help us pull through and extend off of the top (lol, just did this today for the first time in a while), so I guess that it would probably be whatever is most comfortable and safest for you.

I like the pole because your arms are in a position exactly like when you invert on a vault. I think that our pole is just a piece of a broken pole with a plug on the bottom, and then a rope is strung through it.
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Unread postby Antihero43 » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:21 pm

i just grip it and rip it, practice right there while falling into the pit. Have a good knowledgeable coach there with you, and you cant really go wrong. Oh i also do work with just rocking back on monkey bars.
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Unread postby VaulteRachello » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:05 pm

my coach made a pretty cool training device. it is a pulley where you strap your feet in on one end of the rope, and hold onlt a piece of pole on the other end of the rope. it makes it so you can get inverted and push off the pole and everything without falling, its pretty cool. looks like some kind of turture device though:) lots of straps and ropes :P
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Unread postby Antihero43 » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:25 pm

ummmm that device sounds like the pole vault pulley that you can buy at almost any track and field store. We made one at our school because we didnt want to spend 200.00 to have one sent to us.
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Unread postby VaulteRachello » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:31 pm

Antihero43 wrote:ummmm that device sounds like the pole vault pulley that you can buy at almost any track and field store.


cool, didnt know that...
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Unread postby Tamaqua Vaulter » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:17 am

VaulteRachello wrote:
Antihero43 wrote:ummmm that device sounds like the pole vault pulley that you can buy at almost any track and field store.


cool, didnt know that...



blah i rather buy a pole....

...am trying to make one of them......they're easy to make too
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Unread postby Redneck » Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:28 pm

any pics?
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Unread postby indestructo » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:33 am

I wouldn't mind knowing what materials you used to build this pulley thing. A few of our athletes could use it!
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Unread postby souleman » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:45 am

Go here http://www.bubbapv.com/Pages/drill.htm click on the 2005 version. If you can do that, you're inverted. Later..........Mike
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