Hover and click - many are links to articles (links are in green and white)
click here for "The Sail Piece"
click here Petrov Article
click here for Herbert Czingon Presentation
2012 Inocencio Presentation
Herb Jenks Patent US3869557
Origins of Fiberglass Pole by Aubrey Charles Dooley - 1961
Below are links
to 5 part video series from a Pole Vault clinic in Melbourne - 2015
Vid
1 - Intro to Steve Rippon, hand positions, movements
Vid 2 - Body positions -
Take Off, Swing to Pike, Pike, Pike to Extension, Bar Clearance, more
Vid 3 -
questions and answer period
Vid 4 - warmup drills
Vid 5 - drills with poles, run mechanics
Steve Rippon Pole Vault Clinic Vid 1
Steve Rippon Pole Vault Clinic Vid 2
Steve Rippon Pole Vault Clinic Vid 3
Steve Rippon Pole Vault Clinic Vid 4
Steve Rippon Pole Vault Clinic Vid 5
A little mouse told me:
2025
-- off to fast start - PV Summit - Amanda and Hana Moll flying on Essx
Mondo
continues to raise the bar - Women have lots of players
Poles:
USC Spirit is still dominate player
Essx with Moll
sisters and many others is top carbon pole
Gill showing up with Pacer FX and
Composite (Carbon pole with some extra variance - read patent) including Indoor Women's Champ on Composite Marie-Julie Bonnin)
Altius and Nordic are also
carving out niches - Nordic expanding out from Sweden/Norway/Finland - good job Lars
Fibersport with Bruce Caldwell again making major inroads with Sam K and many other former greats now helping
move his poles - get to see these poles used at local vault club - seem to work very well - a
lot of these poles evident at Wisconsin Inddor HS State.
Back in time -- Herb Jenks and early Pacer poles -- brilliant man -- remember how poles used to splinter
with longer strips or shards when a pole broke -- the Original Pole patent on the (helically wound according to patent
wording) spiral wrap -- this was for added hoop strength -- based on using straight glass (not woven material) so to
get hoop strength - the spiral wrapping of material -- the two spiral wraps were also separated by a body wrap - that was
important -- if you are a die hard read Patent 3,969,557 -- materials have changed and improved -- the patent talks about
avoiding woven material --
Use what works for you - sometimes pole choice is made for you - place or coaches
Pole building still has a lot of hands on work - craftsmanship - patterns and materials - great -
a good chief can use the same ingredients and will get a better product that someone who main goal is to make quantity -
you need consistency - reliability - quality control - repeatability and not treat as
a mass produced commodity product
Could be an interesting season will try and update more often and give any insite or hindsight
you can get living in cheeseland
Picture below - look at the shock wave in the pole - draw line from top of pole to break
point to see the wave of energy - that is why it hurts the hand
2014 Women's Indoor Worlds Pole Break
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The
following link is for a little tidbit I threw together and Ashley Whittaker helped clean up while I was at Gill. This plus a few of my presentations
can be found out on the web. This page will also included some expanded information as mentioned on the home page
Click for Engineers View on a Pole Vault Pole
2004 Pole Symposium presentation
2006 European Vault Conference - big file
2008 European Vault Conference - big file
2009 Power Point Presentation
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My Input on PV Poles 1/27/2011
Example of 425 Series Section Modulus
