make your own pit
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:50 pm
has anyone built your own pit? if so how?
Unless you build one with used pieces from other "real" pits, it's a recipe for disaster.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:51 pm
Probably not a good idea.
Unless you build one with used pieces from other "real" pits, it's a recipe for disaster.
Unless you build one with used pieces from other "real" pits, it's a recipe for disaster.
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:57 pm
^^^agreed
three most important rules of the vault:
1)SAFETY
2)SAFETY
3)SAFETY
three most important rules of the vault:
1)SAFETY
2)SAFETY
3)SAFETY
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:43 pm
Pits are expensive because foam rubber is expensive. If there were a cheaper way to be making a SAFE pit, somebody would be doing it.
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:54 pm
step 1 - find an old above ground pool that somebody is throwing away
step 2 - steal a LOT of those little plastic balls from a McDonalds playland
step 3 - fill pool with balls
step 4 - dig 8" hole in ground for box
step 5 - "borrow" a pole from your local high school
step 6 - VAULT!
step 7 - sue the makers of those little plastic balls when you get seriously hurt, you may not be pole vaulting again any times soon, but at least you will have some serious cash, probably more than enough to buy one of those fancy pits!
step 2 - steal a LOT of those little plastic balls from a McDonalds playland
step 3 - fill pool with balls
step 4 - dig 8" hole in ground for box
step 5 - "borrow" a pole from your local high school
step 6 - VAULT!
step 7 - sue the makers of those little plastic balls when you get seriously hurt, you may not be pole vaulting again any times soon, but at least you will have some serious cash, probably more than enough to buy one of those fancy pits!
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:50 pm
Skyin' Brian wrote:step 1 - find an old above ground pool that somebody is throwing away
step 2 - steal a LOT of those little plastic balls from a McDonalds playland
step 3 - fill pool with balls
step 4 - dig 8" hole in ground for box
step 5 - "borrow" a pole from your local high school
step 6 - VAULT!
step 7 - sue the makers of those little plastic balls when you get seriously hurt, you may not be pole vaulting again any times soon, but at least you will have some serious cash, probably more than enough to buy one of those fancy pits!
rofl i love it
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:46 pm
Thirty years ago most all small schools had homemade pits. Within the last couple of years, I came upon an ad for pit bags on the internet, so they are still available. There's a foam place in Daytona that let me have all the scrap foam I wanted for free, which I put in 44" cubic feed bags (filled only to half depth). I got rid of my homemade pit when I found a better place for me and my daughters to vault, since my pit was a bit unsightly for my neighborhood.
Re: make your own pit
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 3:01 pm
Any old timers remember metal poles and pits made from chunks of foam sewn in fishnet bags. just had to revive an old post. It can be done but I am not sure I would want to be jumping 16' on those old mats. Matt rash!!!!!!!!!!!!