Good Vaults Gone Bad

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Good Vaults Gone Bad

Unread postby pool_man_007 » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:41 pm

Post all of ur bad vaults falls ex. that u caught on camera, heres mine. it hurt :o i was having an awfull bad day, but i learned a lesson of metal toughness, so i picked something up out of the deal


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Unread postby Ming3r » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:49 pm

Check my sig.

In Indoor, these were my good jumps...:P

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Unread postby JTred » Sat May 06, 2006 8:19 pm

:eek: What the heck happened on that third one!

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Unread postby cliff » Sun May 07, 2006 11:48 pm

you are brave. I would have stopped after the first one.

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Unread postby LancerVaulter07 » Mon May 08, 2006 9:03 am

i know ive done a post somewhere on this forum about this but ive had a few bad vaults in my time. one of which i jumped, crappy plant/takeoff (my own fault started on bad rundown) and i didnt even get to verticle, spun around, and on my way down, the pole bent, i knew enough to jump as soon as my feet hit the ground but when the pole hit the slant in the box (had a crazy bend on the way down) it re-coiled and caught me in a place where it would've been a whole lot better if it didnt, (obtw, i was stradling the pole on the way down... ) and it left me in a worl of pain on the runway, all i did was ley there till a teammate dragged me off the runway haha. def hurt and def will always make sure im focussed from now on
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Unread postby foothillsvaulter19 » Fri May 19, 2006 7:13 pm

wow. ive fallen of the back of the mat getting up after a vault, but nothin like that.
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Unread postby TOMAS » Sat May 20, 2006 4:26 am

I have an accidents like that but not in ONE place in the same TIME, and I never broke pole :(

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Unread postby TheBigMastodon » Sat May 20, 2006 10:47 am

Hahahah, I must have done that same thing 10 times a couple weeks ago, falling back on the runway.
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Unread postby pv-psycho » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:17 pm

my worst? hit the standards once... oh and i got the crossbar stuck under me so it hit my head and hand on it when i fell on the mat. after that i got it hooked under my foot so on the way down i kicked it and it almost hit another vaulter... :confused:

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Unread postby theczar » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:57 pm

let's see....

my record:

6 broken poles
3 broken crossbars
2 cracked crossbars
1 torn landing pad
1 bent standard

and that is not counting everything i've done to myself :dazed:

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Unread postby CrossBarHOpper » Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:56 pm

6 poles how?? thats so many
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Unread postby pv-psycho » Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:35 pm

theczar wrote:
my record:

6 broken poles
3 broken crossbars
2 cracked crossbars
1 torn landing pad
1 bent standard


what have you done to yourself then?!?!

only damage i have done to equipment is bent the standard... if we were using a crossbar at practice i would have broke that but we used the elastic practice band... i landed on it so when i got off it shot off into the grass!
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