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Unread postby tim hutzley » Mon Mar 17, 2003 1:11 am

What do you use for a runway marker?
I have a bent bolt with arms and a torso hanging from it. I can move it frome the different possitions its cool. hahahaha :crying: it crying. funny

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Unread postby keelowman » Mon Mar 17, 2003 3:19 am

I have used many things, from shoes to chalk but now I use those little flags that you stick in the ground, I think that they are supposed to be used for irrigation. They work great.

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Unread postby Oldcoach » Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:23 pm

How about golf balls with a nail inserted , Orange Green and White are availible.

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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:56 pm

You can take little stuffed animals and drive a nail through them :P

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Unread postby zack » Mon Mar 17, 2003 3:02 pm

I believe we came up with that idea at Gig Harbor Becca. :P

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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Mon Mar 17, 2003 3:14 pm

zack wrote:I believe we came up with that idea at Gig Harbor Becca. :P


Yeah I know :o

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Unread postby xtremevaulter » Mon Mar 17, 2003 3:32 pm

Becca and Zakk you guys are both very sick and demented. Driveing a nail through a stuffed animal how could you. :crying: :crying: :crying:
Anyway I use a tennis ball with a nail in it.

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Unread postby OUvaulterUSAF » Mon Mar 17, 2003 5:38 pm

I know this is a little eccentric but I use athletic tape to mark my step. :P
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Unread postby ashcraftpv » Mon Mar 17, 2003 5:49 pm

one of my guys used a little lawn gnome last year. it was hilarious......
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Unread postby OAKPV2004 » Mon Mar 17, 2003 8:26 pm

When I was in 9th grade, some kid used a Shrunken Skull. That was about the weirdest thing I have ever seen used for a mark.

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Unread postby lonestar » Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:07 pm

One of my junior's found out why you don't want to use shoes - was having a great meet, looking ready to pr by a foot, and when the bar went up, he ran through 3 times saying "my run felt off." We pulled the tape measure back out and sure enough, someone had moved his shoes 2 feet back! Needless to say, he now uses either tape or something that sticks in the ground.
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Unread postby polevaultninja » Fri May 09, 2003 1:34 am

i usually make my "caddy" put his hand on my mark, he moves when i tell him too!
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