Anthony Curran Backyard Pole Vault Video

[rainbowgirl28]

This is great! Check out AC pole vaulting in his backyard: http://www.treemo.com/users/nolimitspor ... item/21126

[master]

That is definitely a candidate for Bubba's backyard vaulting setups!

- master

[jcoover]

he must have the most awesome parents in the world.... 'whats that honey? you're taking the couch cushions and mattresses from the house and putting them in the backyard to serve as a backyard pole vault pit? sounds awesome, have fun! be careful sweetie!".... wish i had that kind of parental units hahahahaha

[theczar]

my parents would have never let me do that in our back yard.....lol

pretty cool

[JTred]

The current record holder at my school had a similar setup. That was back in the 70's when safety wasn't quite what it is today. He actually went to school with my dad. I asked my mom if I could do it, she said no before I even finished the sentence.

[rainbowgirl28]

The current record holder at my school had a similar setup. That was back in the 70's when safety wasn't quite what it is today. He actually went to school with my dad. I asked my mom if I could do it, she said no before I even finished the sentence.

Actually, I think safety was considerably better in the 70s. The pits were so small that the vaulters had to be aware of where they were in the air and know how to control their vault so they landed on the pit.

[lonestar]

Reminds me of this segment from Bubba's "Do you love to pole vault?" article at: http://www.bubbapv.com/Pages/DoYouLovetoPV.htm

Long before my first 10' vault I broke both of my ankles long jumping off our roof into all of the family's sofa cushions and mattresses after we were too tired to vault anymore. I WON BY LANDING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PIT!!! Bones stuck out of my skin as I crawled into the house, but I didn't care because I won the vault AND the long jump that day.

Later we further annoyed the neighbors by constructing a vault facility in a vacant lot. We took old tires as our base, put discarded box springs from beds on top, and then filled an Army tent with carpet padding scraps. I made 11' 3" on that heap. Of course you had to jump 9' to make it up on the pit. I've often laughed with Jan Johnson about vaulting outside Tim Hamilton's (his college roommies) house in Abilene where he had an air-inflated pit (called a Cloud 9) that was also filled with carpet scraps. Under the lights at night it looked like aliens were dancing in there.