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Whose the heaviest vaulter out there?
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 12:50 am
by polevaultninja
Thats right, I want to know which one of you weighs the most! I am 170 lbs. and I want to know who is the biggest!
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 1:31 am
by vaultguru6
i weigh 160. But i think the world record for most mass over a high bar goes to Scott Wenholz. This guy weighs about 250 and jumps 17'2"
. I hear he's on 10.'s, same size poles as bubka was on.
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 2:06 am
by zack
Wow Wenholz didn't look nearly that big in Neovault.
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 2:07 am
by rainbowgirl28
zack wrote:Wow Wenholz didn't look nearly that big in Neovault.
Trick photography?
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 10:32 am
by PVJunkie
I just sent out a 13'6" 225#.............Yes that was a 225. It had a 7.8 flex.
Not even close
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 12:05 pm
by SithGod30
I weigh in at 200 pounds and I'm only in high school. When I first started, we had to cut a foot and a half off of a 170 pound pole just so that I would have something to use
This does not count as this was never in competition
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 12:17 pm
by Bruce Caldwell
This does not count as this was never in competition and was on an illegal pole GRIN
10 years ago LOL at Earl Bell's place I jumped 6' and weighed 290.
I used a special thick wall training pole that was rated under my weight.
I should of used a stiffer pole becasue my standards were 4.5 feet back and I landed deep
I hear someone else jumped 7' there to break my FAT MAN RECORD and weighed 300 lbs.
LOOKING for a pattern for a 10'8"-275lbs ESSX pole but I think it may not bend.
Re: This does not count as this was never in competition
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 12:29 pm
by rainbowgirl28
ESSX wrote:This does not count as this was never in competition and was on an illegal pole GRIN
10 years ago LOL at Earl Bell's place I jumped 6' and weighed 290.
I used a special thick wall training pole that was rated under my weight.
I should of used a stiffer pole becasue my standards were 4.5 feet back and I landed deep
I hear someone else jumped 7' there to break my FAT MAN RECORD and weighed 300 lbs.
LOOKING for a pattern for a 10'8"-275lbs ESSX pole but I think it may not bend.
Just use a tree trunk! Or a telephone pole!
I think I did say some where on here
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 1:12 pm
by Bruce Caldwell
I think I did say some where on here that the best pole in the World could be the right stiffness TELEPHONE POLE :D
Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 1:50 pm
by polevaultninja
how the heck do you grip that big of a pole? you need grimlin hands or something! claws! thats a big pole!
Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 5:41 pm
by Fo_Sheezy
Let's see...I vault with a guy right now that weighs 215# and is holding 3' down on a 14' skypole...then there is a coach that I met at camp last summer who jumps 16' holding around 15' on a 16 ft Carbon FX, oh yeah he weighed 235# he said, and his pole was 200. And my coach last year vaulted 7' on a 13' 180# pole holding around 12'...the bad part is he weighed 245# of steel muscle, arg!
So it seems like the guys are topping the "heaviest vaulters" list...what about the girls? I jump against a girl now that weighs 165 and jumps 8'! Thats the heaviest girl I have seen...but shes not fat, she is just extremely gung-ho and muscular. She had a full ride somewhere but lost it due to injuries, pretty sad.
Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 6:15 pm
by frozensteele
I'm the heaviest on my team weighing in at 170.