I put a couple issues of Vaulter Magazine on the sewing machine under the West Side of the Glendale Community College (AZ). They just sat there for weeks. Then one day this is what I discovered on the Training Equipment locker. The guys finally looked at Vaulter Magazine. As the…
Think about it: You sprint at full speed while carrying a heavy pole, then use that pole to catapult yourself twenty feet in the air, then fall. The pole vault is my favorite Olympic event partly because it seems like such a bizarre practice, the sport that most closely resembles a dare…