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If anyone is interested in viewing, I have a underwater vaulting, bent pole video that I have just put on our website at www.CarolinaExtreme.com . Very cool! We been doing it once a week for a while now.

that looks like so much fun!!!

Wow that is awesome!

Looks familiar

Kinda looks like the underwater shot from JJ's Sky System II video. But that still looks cool and fun!

I'll have to ckeck into doing that sometime!!!

Carolina Extreme wrote:If anyone is interested in viewing, I have a underwater vaulting, bent pole video that I have just put on our website at www.CarolinaExtreme.com . Very cool! We been doing it once a week for a while now.

What weight pole are you using for this? I assume a pretty soft one. Also, is the person above water helping to bend the pole? I'd like to know more about this.

cdmilton wrote:What weight pole are you using for this? I assume a pretty soft one. Also, is the person above water helping to bend the pole? I'd like to know more about this.

We use 20ft (schedule 40) pvc pipe inside of another 20ft pvc in a deep water diving pool. We're still playing with pipes/ideas to get it a little stiffer. The person on top is providing the take-off, so to speak, by pushing the pole down and out to put the vaulter into the take-off position. We have a rope on top, with wrist loop, to pull the pole back as well as to stop the pole from going to far.

The water allows you to do everything in slow motion to give you a better feel for what you need to be doing. Your feet are like rudders so if they are off you will drift and not go straight through and up the pole.

At Georgia we used the lane dividers as a crossbar.

Carolina Extreme wrote:

cdmilton wrote:What weight pole are you using for this? I assume a pretty soft one. Also, is the person above water helping to bend the pole? I'd like to know more about this.

We use 20ft (schedule 40) pvc pipe inside of another 20ft pvc in a deep water diving pool. We're still playing with pipes/ideas to get it a little stiffer. The person on top is providing the take-off, so to speak, by pushing the pole down and out to put the vaulter into the take-off position. We have a rope on top, with wrist loop, to pull the pole back as well as to stop the pole from going to far.

The water allows you to do everything in slow motion to give you a better feel for what you need to be doing. Your feet are like rudders so if they are off you will drift and not go straight through and up the pole.

Thanks for the info. I do pool vaulting all the time with just a straight pole. You should also film from up top so we can see what that person is doing.

rainbowgirl28 wrote:At Georgia we used the lane dividers as a crossbar.

Yep, that makes it sweet! We might try floating a bungee and see how that works. We don't have the lane divider option since ours is strictly a diving pool. There is one lane divider but it is on the shallower 12 ft end, and to close to the side.

cdmilton wrote:

Carolina Extreme wrote:

cdmilton wrote:What weight pole are you using for this? I assume a pretty soft one. Also, is the person above water helping to bend the pole? I'd like to know more about this.

We use 20ft (schedule 40) pvc pipe inside of another 20ft pvc in a deep water diving pool. We're still playing with pipes/ideas to get it a little stiffer. The person on top is providing the take-off, so to speak, by pushing the pole down and out to put the vaulter into the take-off position. We have a rope on top, with wrist loop, to pull the pole back as well as to stop the pole from going to far.

The water allows you to do everything in slow motion to give you a better feel for what you need to be doing. Your feet are like rudders so if they are off you will drift and not go straight through and up the pole.

Thanks for the info. I do pool vaulting all the time with just a straight pole. You should also film from up top so we can see what that person is doing.

Agreed, I would really like to see what the person above the water is doing while "pushing down and out" on the pole to put the vaulter in the take off position. if you have more images, i would really appreciate seeing them! I also want to know more about "20ft (schedule 40) pvc pipe inside of another 20ft pvc" i guess i am assuming the combination of one inside the other allows for flexiblity, but not too much where it would just amount to a wet noodle?

-glen