Seems like it's bound to happen at some point. Pole break and impale maybe, though I think we would have heard about something like that? Or missing the mat to either side or something?
Seems like it's bound to happen at some point. Pole break and impale maybe, though I think we would have heard about something like that? Or missing the mat to either side or something?
Okay, my bad. Google seems to work sometimes. The answer is yes.
Wow almost one a year, and that's just at the HS level!
Then there is this:
No other sport produces as many catastrophic injuries to high school-age females as cheer leading, according to Barry P. Boden, an orthopedic surgeon at the Orthopedic Center in Rockville, Maryland.
Whodathunkit?
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Wow almost one a year, and that's just at the HS level!
Anecdotally, the high school level of pole vault is much more dangerous than the college and post collegiate levels.
The older vaulters definitely get injuries, but they're more likely to get an injury from the running training than from the vaulting, in my experience. Also the older vaulters are much more consistent, which means landing in the mat more consistently (and safely).
Not to say that injuries never happen to college and post collegiate vaulters, they do and sometimes includes fatal injuries, but less often than to high school vaulters.
High school vault has higher injury rates because the kids are rapidly developing, so they start gripping higher on bigger poles, but they're still inconsistent, so they plant late or plant sideways. Then they lack the experience to know when the vault is going bad, so may try to finish a bad vault and miss the mats or land only partially on the mats, tumbling onto their head.
It happens the most to the kids who have just started to learn to really use the bend and fly away, because any misplant issue is magnified now, whereas when they would flag off, they'd kill the vault at the top end and so any sideways momentum in the plant wouldn't have as much effect, and they would only drift a little bit from the center of the mat.
For the same reason, scary vaults are common in collegiate decathletes. They're athletic so they advance fast, but before they've developed their technique into a habit, so they suddenly have one bad plant and it will be really scary.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!