The Pole Vault

Sussex UK · **Joined:** Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:34 pm **Posts:** 3553

I was watching the games last night and i can't remember anyone saying they've ever attempted it? It looks so easy.

Critical Thinking · **Joined:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:50 am **Posts:** 2313

Try answering that question "it looks so easy" when the pole snaps as you are about to take off.

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Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

I have never understood the pole vault, why? Although athletics bores me rigid, especially the Olympics, so perhaps I’m not a fan.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19728

Sussex UK wrote:

I was watching the games last night and i can't remember anyone saying they've ever attempted it? It looks so easy.

never heard of it being an option to learn at school. anyone interested in taking it up would have to travel to an athletics club to learn it. question is, how do you start to do it. looks bloddy hard to me not easy.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:52 am

Was it not a technique to jump into castles in medieval days?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Bluestreak wrote:

Was it not a technique to jump into castles in medieval days?

Come on Mr Blue, if that was the case athletics would include……’pouring the boiling oil over the siegers ’…. ‘Catapulting the plague ridden corpse into the castle’….. ‘beat the portcullis or die impaled’ (that could be a crowd pleaser)…..what do you reckon…?

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2022 12:31 pm

Snowy wrote:

Bluestreak wrote:

Was it not a technique to jump into castles in medieval days?

Come on Mr Blue, if that was the case athletics would include……’pouring the boiling oil over the siegers ’…. ‘Catapulting the plague ridden corpse into the castle’….. ‘beat the portcullis or die impaled’ (that could be a crowd pleaser)…..what do you reckon…?

I pour boiling water over carol singers at Christmas as i regard it as a winter olympic sport.

elwood · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:31 pm **Posts:** 241

Don't the Dutch jump across canals with them? Sure I saw it on a random B-list celebrity travelogue once

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

…..or you were watching ‘Epic Fails’ on You Tube..

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 9528

Quality event of Strength n Skill.
Like the Clay Pigeon Shooting thats me favorite.
UTP!

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