Vaulting Progressions

[Neo Vaulter]

Those pics of the ranch look fun. Especially when I look out my backyard and its just big walls with no where to go.

I will for sure have to make it up for a trip to the ranch. Keep me posted.

-sb

[Cpvault]

Jan,
Talked to Brownie today; still closing out where he is. Although, probably better than Mercury. (After our discussion, I didn't realize Mercury would be so flat and have intergalatic regions (cities) with earth names like Champagne. Anyway, leg is all better and I have been lifting hard so you'll be seeing me pretty soon for jump practice.
My progression:

High School:
Freshman: Didn't jump
Sophomore: 10'
Junior: 11' 4"
Senior: 13'6"
College:
Freshman: 15'3"
Sophomore: 17'4"
Junior: 18'1/2"
Senior: 18'1/2"
2000: 17'8" (hurt last half of year; then quit jumping)
2004: COMEBACK!!!!!!!!

[Russ]

I started very early. I distinctly remember watching Bob Seagren vault indoors when I was 9 years old and then going out in my backyard and trying to vault using a broken tv antenna. After my mother got frightened watching my brother and me using saplings that we had cut down for poles and stacking up cardboard boxes to use as make-shift standards, my father took pity on me and built a set of standards out of 2x4's and ordered a 10-foot Themoflex training pole. The picture of me that used to be up on this board was taken when I was 10 in my backyard holding that Thermoflex.


4th grade (1967): 6'0"
5th grade (1968): 6'4"-6'10 (not sure exactly)
Don't recall what I did for a couple of years
9th grade (1972): 9'0"
10th grade (1973): 11'8" (1st year bending)
11th grade (1974): 13'0"
12th grade (1975): 13'10"
Return as a 46-year-old Masters Vaulter after a 27-year layoff (2003): 9'0