Underwater vaulting, bent pole.

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Underwater vaulting, bent pole.

Unread postby Carolina Extreme » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:02 am

If anyone is interested in viewing, I have a underwater vaulting, bent pole video that I have just put on our website at www.CarolinaExtreme.com . Very cool! We been doing it once a week for a while now. :yes:
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Unread postby vaulter870 » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:05 am

that looks like so much fun!!!
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Unread postby theflyingkorean » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:23 am

Wow that is awesome!

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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:37 am

Looks familiar :)

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Unread postby Scott Go Pre » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:10 am

Kinda looks like the underwater shot from JJ's Sky System II video. But that still looks cool and fun!
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Unread postby pv4life » Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:51 am

I'll have to ckeck into doing that sometime!!!

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Re: Underwater vaulting, bent pole.

Unread postby cdmilton » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:00 am

Carolina Extreme wrote:If anyone is interested in viewing, I have a underwater vaulting, bent pole video that I have just put on our website at www.CarolinaExtreme.com . Very cool! We been doing it once a week for a while now. :yes:


What weight pole are you using for this? I assume a pretty soft one. Also, is the person above water helping to bend the pole? I'd like to know more about this.
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Re: Underwater vaulting, bent pole.

Unread postby Carolina Extreme » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:10 am

cdmilton wrote:What weight pole are you using for this? I assume a pretty soft one. Also, is the person above water helping to bend the pole? I'd like to know more about this.


We use 20ft (schedule 40) pvc pipe inside of another 20ft pvc in a deep water diving pool. We're still playing with pipes/ideas to get it a little stiffer. The person on top is providing the take-off, so to speak, by pushing the pole down and out to put the vaulter into the take-off position. We have a rope on top, with wrist loop, to pull the pole back as well as to stop the pole from going to far.

The water allows you to do everything in slow motion to give you a better feel for what you need to be doing. Your feet are like rudders so if they are off you will drift and not go straight through and up the pole.
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:12 am

At Georgia we used the lane dividers as a crossbar.

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Re: Underwater vaulting, bent pole.

Unread postby cdmilton » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:14 am

Carolina Extreme wrote:
cdmilton wrote:What weight pole are you using for this? I assume a pretty soft one. Also, is the person above water helping to bend the pole? I'd like to know more about this.


We use 20ft (schedule 40) pvc pipe inside of another 20ft pvc in a deep water diving pool. We're still playing with pipes/ideas to get it a little stiffer. The person on top is providing the take-off, so to speak, by pushing the pole down and out to put the vaulter into the take-off position. We have a rope on top, with wrist loop, to pull the pole back as well as to stop the pole from going to far.

The water allows you to do everything in slow motion to give you a better feel for what you need to be doing. Your feet are like rudders so if they are off you will drift and not go straight through and up the pole.



Thanks for the info. I do pool vaulting all the time with just a straight pole. You should also film from up top so we can see what that person is doing.
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Unread postby Carolina Extreme » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:19 am

rainbowgirl28 wrote:At Georgia we used the lane dividers as a crossbar.


Yep, that makes it sweet! We might try floating a bungee and see how that works. We don't have the lane divider option since ours is strictly a diving pool. There is one lane divider but it is on the shallower 12 ft end, and to close to the side.
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Re: Underwater vaulting, bent pole.

Unread postby gbob » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:20 pm

cdmilton wrote:
Carolina Extreme wrote:
cdmilton wrote:What weight pole are you using for this? I assume a pretty soft one. Also, is the person above water helping to bend the pole? I'd like to know more about this.


We use 20ft (schedule 40) pvc pipe inside of another 20ft pvc in a deep water diving pool. We're still playing with pipes/ideas to get it a little stiffer. The person on top is providing the take-off, so to speak, by pushing the pole down and out to put the vaulter into the take-off position. We have a rope on top, with wrist loop, to pull the pole back as well as to stop the pole from going to far.

The water allows you to do everything in slow motion to give you a better feel for what you need to be doing. Your feet are like rudders so if they are off you will drift and not go straight through and up the pole.



Thanks for the info. I do pool vaulting all the time with just a straight pole. You should also film from up top so we can see what that person is doing.


Agreed, I would really like to see what the person above the water is doing while "pushing down and out" on the pole to put the vaulter in the take off position. if you have more images, i would really appreciate seeing them! I also want to know more about "20ft (schedule 40) pvc pipe inside of another 20ft pvc" i guess i am assuming the combination of one inside the other allows for flexiblity, but not too much where it would just amount to a wet noodle?

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