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Which one will all of the better vaulters be attending? I'm guessing Nike but I just got an email for the one at the Armory in New York and the two meets are the same weekend.

usually nike but nico went to the armory last year

that alone might be a reason to skip Nike this year

I took my vaulter to Nike last year and was extremely unimpressed. I thought Simplot Games was a much better run meet and more enjoyable for the athletes.

At Nike they refused to run 5-alive, even when there were 15 vaulters in at a height. They also were weird about run throughs. The top athletes can only take their run throughs at certain heights, not necessarily the height they are coming in at.

Those were also problems the year before, meet management was made aware of them and promised change. Changes were not made.

We go to New York and everyone loves it.

rainbowgirl28 wrote:I took my vaulter to Nike last year and was extremely unimpressed. I thought Simplot Games was a much better run meet and more enjoyable for the athletes.

At Nike they refused to run 5-alive, even when there were 15 vaulters in at a height. They also were weird about run throughs. The top athletes can only take their run throughs at certain heights, not necessarily the height they are coming in at.

Those were also problems the year before, meet management was made aware of them and promised change. Changes were not made.

hopefully that will be changed

new york is too far for me, haha but i guess not for others from my state. haha i will be at nike if anyone is asking.

nitro wrote:

rainbowgirl28 wrote:I took my vaulter to Nike last year and was extremely unimpressed. I thought Simplot Games was a much better run meet and more enjoyable for the athletes.

At Nike they refused to run 5-alive, even when there were 15 vaulters in at a height. They also were weird about run throughs. The top athletes can only take their run throughs at certain heights, not necessarily the height they are coming in at.

Those were also problems the year before, meet management was made aware of them and promised change. Changes were not made.

hopefully that will be changed

If they didn't change it the past 2 years, what makes you think they would change it now? Especially after there were very specific promises made that the corrections would be made, when the normal protocol was not followed this was immediately brought to the meet management attention, and they refused to do anything about it.

It's probably not so bad for you guys coming in after everyone else is out *shrug*

the girls compitition ran more smoothly then the guys after the complaints so i can only hope they will build on that

polevaulter08nw wrote:new york is too far for me, haha but i guess not for others from my state. haha i will be at nike if anyone is asking.

me too

rainbowgirl28 wrote:I.....

At Nike they refused to run 5-alive, even when there were 15 vaulters in at a height. They also were weird about run throughs. The top athletes can only take their run throughs at certain heights, not necessarily the height they are coming in at.
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Just what rule code has the Nike meet been using?

The NSIC (at the Armory) uses USATF "Open" rules.. There are no warm-up jumps after the competition starts. Each and every jumper knows that is the case during the pre-competition warm-up and again just before the competition starts?

Vaultref wrote:

rainbowgirl28 wrote:I.....

At Nike they refused to run 5-alive, even when there were 15 vaulters in at a height. They also were weird about run throughs. The top athletes can only take their run throughs at certain heights, not necessarily the height they are coming in at.
....

Just what rule code has the Nike meet been using?

The NSIC (at the Armory) uses USATF "Open" rules.. There are no warm-up jumps after the competition starts. Each and every jumper knows that is the case during the pre-competition warm-up and again just before the competition starts?

They said USATF but they kind of throw their own twists to the rules in there.