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To all of you who don't know Greg Wright. . . what a wonderful person. I jumped against Bear Creek High School when I was younger and he (Greg Wright) loaned me a series of spirit poles that enabled me to gain the opportunities that awaited me in the pole vault. I broke the JV school record (12'9") ...

LOL Wrong Jeff. . . But I know what you mean. They want to see video of me jumping desperately. Please please don't get video from Sean. . . he's got some coverage of me in my. . . well, just not my best years. I do wish though that I was the Jeff valient and secure enough to jump in a pink tutu. Se...

This is just a thread of thanks to Sean, Bubba, and Daniel for their efforts and sacrifices in making quality videos for pole vaulting. I think many of us have known for a long long time that videos that pole vaulting people have made in the past don't represent what we are today as pole vaulters (o...

Pat is definitly one of the best people I've met on Earth. My favorite experience with Pat was when I lived in Phoenix: My training partners and I were trying to teach my pitbull how to dive into the pool to get her toy rope off of the bottom. I began with baby-steps and had her start on the first s...

I don't think it's necessarily about having "guts" as you put it, but I think it's depressing all the way around for everybody, including the minor league football, baseball, and basketball teams in college. I have the furthest thing from football mentality, but I enjoy watching it and love the thou...

I've heard that there are scientists in religious temples around the world attempting to use air as a means of gaining lift. Perhaps aerodynamics is the next wave of flight. Hmmmmm.

Title 9 was meant for a good thing. I believe that it's initial, honest intent was to give women the same equal rights as men. Unfortunately, our world doesn't make sense most of the time, and where ever we can take short cuts to get what we want, we (for the majority I think) take the short cut. Cu...

bj,
water is great right now. It's probably safer to swim in that water than to think that U.S. athletes who are somehow competing for other countries is not a false way of getting to the World Championships or Olympics. I'm not sure which has more BS in it.

ESSX wrote:it takes three years to do that and she could not accomplish it in time for the OLYMPICS

There is also the World Championships right? Isn't that kinda like the Olympics?

I'm just saying that there are too many people trying to find the short cuts to the Olympics. It's just another meet.

bjvando wrote:so it's just ligher and easier to see from the stands???

From my experience, the larger it is and the stealthier it can be has worked in the past. If I'm coming down the runway, I want people to see how large of a pole I can weild, not how small. Whatever.

I haven't been following the pages for awhile, but I've heard the rumor that Mary is turning British. I am disappointed. I don't support any American-born jumper who decides to jump for another country unless that person decides to move to that country. If an athlete decides to move to another home ...