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Re: heaviest pole

Unread postby kev44000 » Sat May 16, 2009 11:18 pm

LHSvaulter wrote:
There is a pole at Bell Athletics that Bubka gave to Earl it is a monster.

Is this --->http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=74869&id=512042293&l=f101323559 that pole by chance? :P



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Re: heaviest pole

Unread postby Starmancer » Sun May 17, 2009 7:51 pm

Compared to the boy's hand that pole looks enormous. :dazed:
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Re: heaviest pole

Unread postby kev44000 » Mon May 18, 2009 12:11 pm

That was Bubkas warm up pole at Bells
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Re: heaviest pole

Unread postby CowtownPV » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:18 pm

At the time the rumor was the poles built for Jacob Davis at UT were the biggest Spirit had ever built. I know his senior year at Duke he didn't jump at NCAA and his pole bag layed out by the pit for days and the joke was he was through but nobody else had any use for those poles because they were too big.
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Re: heaviest pole

Unread postby achtungpv » Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:44 pm

Davis' biggest pole was a 5.00 9.6 or 9.8.

Miroslaw Chmara from Poland had like a 5.30/9.6 which is the biggest length/flex combo I've ever heard of.
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Re: heaviest pole

Unread postby LHSvaulter » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:34 pm

Starmancer wrote:Compared to the boy's hand that pole looks enormous.


That's my buddy Pat. He's 6-2, 180 lbs, and he could barely fit his hands around it. :P
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Re: heaviest pole

Unread postby vault-official » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:50 pm

I think I got one of the biggest poles made by my favorite pole manufacturer. I have an 13'1" Essx 242 lb. The flex is 7.7


Gotta love Essx. :-)
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Re: heaviest pole

Unread postby golfdane » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:47 am

vault-official wrote:I think I got one of the biggest poles made by my favorite pole manufacturer. I have an 13'1" Essx 242 lb. The flex is 7.7


Gotta love Essx. :-)


That's a telephone pole, that someone wrapped some ESSX tape and stickers around ;)
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