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leftys?
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:38 pm
by spike gibeault
Anybody know what the record is for lefty vaulters? i was reading bubba's page but it only said that Simon Arkell had the record but i was curious to see what his actual height was, anybody know?
Also, ive been thinking for a while now, and i cant come up with any reason lefty vaulters are at a disadvantage, anybody got one?
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:33 pm
by vault3rb0y
Ima lefty. Theres no reason we are disadvantaged, other than we only have 1/10 the number of vaulters as righties.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:06 am
by achtungpv
580 - 19-0 1/4
Lefty vaulting is unnatural...weirds me out.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:06 am
by spike gibeault
leftys are so much better...just because we are, two out of the three vaulters at my school are leftys
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:56 am
by LHSvaulter
spike... two out of three?shouldn't be 2 out of four? or are there others i don't know about? lefties=you & nelson
Righties= jeff & joe
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:15 am
by spike gibeault
leftys are so much better...just because we are, two out of the four vaulters at my school are leftys...now...it used to be 2/3 but jeff diddnt compete this year, but he will be...my bad
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:07 pm
by powerplant42
Lefties are at a disadvantage because they get heckled for being lefty...
Re: leftys?
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:11 pm
by BruceFlorman
spike gibeault wrote:Also, ive been thinking for a while now, and i cant come up with any reason lefty vaulters are at a disadvantage, anybody got one?
Define "lefty". Do you have to carry your pole on the left, or does just writing with your left hand qualify?
Re: leftys?
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:00 pm
by spike gibeault
BruceFlorman wrote:spike gibeault wrote:Also, ive been thinking for a while now, and i cant come up with any reason lefty vaulters are at a disadvantage, anybody got one?
Define "lefty". Do you have to carry your pole on the left, or does just writing with your left hand qualify?
i was thinking more about the vaulting aspect but, now that you mention it, i have heard people say leftys in general die younger...
actually
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:57 pm
by ALYpolevault
vaulting lefty became an advantage for me. im right handed so when i started polevalut they made me vault righty. but i kept jumping off the wrong foot because i used that foot for hurdles. so i switched to lefty and started getting higher.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:17 pm
by Sean/vaulter/naeS
I started as a right hander just because I am, but in eighth grade i switched when my coach wasn't looking and cleared a bar that was a foot over my pr, i just couldn't jump off the other foot and its ok to be a lefty it just means your not quite right, and you got to be a little crazy to vault anyway.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:27 pm
by VaultPurple
every year so many leftys are injured using items made for right handed people... ie pv poles, lol
biggest advantage i see is getting coached, almost all videos of vaulters are by right handed vaulters so you have think backwards
we got a new guy this year who is pretty good but he is left handed so when im trying to help him i try to do everything left handed to show him and it gets confusing, expecialy me trying to do left handed pop ups... quite dangerous !