@Xzavier Mills because there is always near and close built houses with joint backyards separated by wood fences. In the backyards always be having clotheslines and tall sticks to push up the clothesline higher so clothes wonât touch the ground đđđđ. It would be funny đđđđ
@Yo mama Hey I'd rather be somewhere else too but then I would have to focus all my time and effort every day into making money to make it happen and all I care about is philosophy and I don't really interact much with people outside anymore after someone tried to murder me with a boltcutter I just stay lonely.
Former vaulter here⊠This shit is insanely tough. Our high school stopped having pole vault in the mid 80s and my dad brought it back in 2004. He placed 4th at State in 1971 and rebuilt the program in 04
When I ran track, they made each of us compete Ina field event. I was totally mesmerized by the pole vaulters. Then I saw a girl run up, put her pole into the pocket, bent up, and then it snapped to where she wasn't quite to the bar or mats yet. She went about 6 feet and landed flat on her back. Luckily it was a recycled rubber approach so it was cushioned a bit, but she got the wind knocked out of her like I've never seen. We ran up and her eyes looked like dinner plates. She sprang up, grabbed me and one of our coaches trying to get a breath in. She started quick shallow breaths and muttered, "did I break that pole?" We all laughed our asses off, but it was sketchy man.
Three men at a prison were gathered by the warden and offered a chance to gain their freedom. The warden explained that if they can pole vault over the razor wire fence they can go home. The first man steps up and fails miserably. He's taken away to the infirmary to have his wounds tended to. The second man steps up and also fails. He walks away unharmed. The third man steps up and goes for freedom. He makes it over the fence and everyone is cheering for him, even the warden. The man is crying hysterically and the warden asks "why are you crying? You made it over the fence." The man responds, " yea, but my balls are still hanging up there."
@r p Whatever dude but I totally expected the white dudes to be better than the black dude. Just goes to show you you donât judge a book by its cover!
@mikeyiwnl I mean, if we go with by your logic. You're saying that everyone shouldn't be impressed with something out of their reach performed by other people? And that people should just be indifferent because a hard-work achievement isn't something to be proud of? Not everyone is the hardly impressed type like you okay, you're so cool and quirky bruh.
I ran track in high school and college and the vaulters are definitely a breed of their own. They all drink a different kind of Kool aid to volunteer for that. I never understand them but they were fun to watch
You would think they would figure out how to design those poles to not snap like that. Does that happen because their technique is fucked up and they are putting too much bend on it? Or does the pole have too much mileage on it?
My uncle's hs was competing in a statewide many-event athletic championship. He was a football and lacrosse player. His school was very good but they were just shy of the right number of possible points needed to go on to nationals. So they saw that they could still enter the pole vault and all they needed was to enter and clear a bar once. Just one jump... How hard could it be? So they got one of their lighter athletes and he volunteered to jump. So he walks up to the prep area and he checks his form and watches real close as the other teams go. So he builds up enough confidence to make the attempt. Finally it's his turn, nationals are on the line! He walks up, picks up the bar, bends it a few times, checks his run up distance, and he's looking good. He backs up, aims, runs, plants the bar perfectly, and sails into the sky! Not a moment later he shrieks and wraps himself around the pole, hanging momentarily suspended at the top of the vertical pole! The pole crashes to earth, still with him wrapped around it. He lays there stunned on the track as his team runs over. They ask him what happened and he screams, "I'm afraid of heights!" Apparently he figured it wouldn't be an issue for that short period and no one thought to ask him!
Most other high school track and field events: âhow far can you run?â Pole vault: âhey kid, hereâs a 12ft pole, see if u can launch yourself over that barâ
@asgacc not at all. It was part of the curriculum because it's an Athletics' event. It was very mild anyways, begginer stuff with a much shorter pole and a lower bar, but it was cool to see how the mechanics worked. It's pretty much a compound of a lot of other events motions
@David Fernandez I see. So its included as part of curriculum so its easier for newbie to surpass the mental barrier because its being presented as normal stuff
@asgacc I was studying Sports Science and we had to do Pole vaulting as part of the Athletics curriculum. It's actually really fun and really fucking hard, by far the most technical event of the Athletics. You've to run with perfect form or you can't get any speed with the pole in your hands, then you have to jump exactly where you're supposed to or you'll fall short or eat the bar and finally you need a lot of strength and flexibility to fight the pole and avoid the bar. Once you get over the fear of hurting yourself it's a really cool sport
I went to the same high school as Lawrence Johnson a couple years after him but he used to work out there during the summers. he used to do some crazy shit. 4 ncaa titles and an Olympic silver
But you see, in my mind I can do this.đ€ Not thinking about how it's an Olympic sport. But I swear I can do this and pole vault from roof to roof. đ.
That second one happened to a girl at my school, only difference is she didnât catch herself. She went straight down and smacked her head on the metal vault box, knocked out cold.
I bet the hardest part about this sport is trying not to think about that pole shattering into pieces while your whole body is upside down..which is the only time they break btw. I mean just imagine if every 10 or 20 times you pull back your bow to shoot an arrow, the bow just snaps into 5 or 6 pieces. How long before you pick another sport? đ€Ł
