You Might be a Redneck Pole Vaulter

[mjaubbs40]

If for entertainment on a Friday night, you, your wife and 2 kids sit and watch a small herd of 12 deer "hang out" at the end of your runway eating grass.
To add more entertainment, you howl like wolves to see if you can startle the deer.
When you finally scare the deer away, you're disappointed because there goes your entertainment.

[Tim McMichael]

If you have ever used a piece of broken pole to fix your artificial insemination gun.

[Tim McMichael]

If for entertainment on a Friday night, you, your wife and 2 kids sit and watch a small herd of 12 deer "hang out" at the end of your runway eating grass.
To add more entertainment, you howl like wolves to see if you can startle the deer.
When you finally scare the deer away, you're disappointed because there goes your entertainment.

LOL, I have known vault families where, under these circumstances, any child over the age of ten would be in a deer stand with a rifle.

[Tim McMichael]

If you found out the hard way that if you put the box too close to the hay stack there is not enough room for the pole to bend.

If your financial plan for buying a new pit involves the slot machines at the Fire Lake Lodge mini-mart and Indian casino.

If every practice on a decent pit involves a blatant act of trespassing.

If you were nearly killed by your coach before you explained to him that the hammer throw does not involve a sledge hammer.

If your weight training program involves buckets full of concrete.

If you know that running sprints in freshly plowed dirt is one of the best workouts ever.

If when you were a kid you learned that a pole made from a tree branch will eventually dry out to the point that it breaks and that hitting a barbed wire gate upside down really hurts.

If your coach has a time line for the end of the world painted on the side of his house.

[rainbowgirl28]

If your coach has a time line for the end of the world painted on the side of his house.

Oh my goodness... hahahahaha

[Tim McMichael]

If you used a pole to measure your house so you could fill out the length of residence portion on your social security application.

[achtungpv]

If you jump on a Lisco pit.

[Tim McMichael]

If you have ever used a tree branch to put up a crossbar.

If a camera crew from channel 7 came to your house to do a story and six dogs peed on their $40,000 camera.

If at the next meet all the other coaches razzed your coach by suggesting they take the pit away and let you land on the ground like they saw you doing on T.V.

[mjaubbs40]

If you use a pole to knock down a large beehive in a tree.

If before knocking down a beehive in a tree you tell your kids to get ready to run...

[VaultPurple]

if your vaulting at night with a rusted vault box and someone has to shine a flashlight into the vault box so that you can see wehre to plant the pole!

[vault3rb0y]

If your pole vault facility is referred to as the sky scraper of the town (true story).

If you've ever tree'd a coon on top of your standards and jacked it up to 18' and tried to clear it.

[pvtaz]

If someone ever said "hey, want to help me get the wildlife preserve?"

This was before our school had a rubber track and artificial turf... the pit had every southern California critter that walked the face of the earth live in or on it