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Questions on Pole Vault Poles?

Urban Legends?  Fact or Fiction?

Send me and e-mail - hopefully I will have the answer on this page or will see what I can do

I can be to blunt at times - do not believe in feeding a line of you know what to people

-- try and do your best - nothing is perfect --

people will break good poles - sometimes poles are not made perfectly

these are fiber"glass" poles - do not spike, throw or slam around -- enjoy

 

Decamouse e-mail: jpwatry@hotmail.com

The following link is for a little tidbit I threw together and Ashley Whittaker helped clean up while I was at Gill. 
This plus a few of my presentations can be found out on the web.
This page will also included some expanded information as mentioned on the home page

Engineers View on a Pole Vault Pole

2004 Pole Symposium presentation

2006 European Vault Conference - big file

2008 European Vault Conference - big file

2009 Power Point Presentation

My Input on PV Poles 1/27/2011

Example of 425 Series Section Modulus

I have started adding links to the various items or sections as seen above.
I will add more as time permits or questions arise.
Remember - it is a composite - many ways to get to the final product
Use what works for you
425 Series Example -- you can see when mandrel size changes by when the handle gets stiffer
Pole Failure has some stills of single point failure -
Renaud and video at bottom have multi point from over load

Sweet take-off - click below to see ---- Steve Lewis UK - his coach at that time was Steve Rippon

-- in my opinion one of the top coaches in the world

click here to play video

Try hard enough - you can break any pole - click below for video

click here to play video