Gun to your head. Do you think you could vault a creek bed given 6 hours notice? The creek is eight feet across.

Why would the notice matter? Is the idea that you’d spend that 6hrs training?

Yes

In that case yes.

Not with that bad ankle.

In that case yes.

You have six hours to post proof

Do you have to land in your feet?
Is it a success if your feet or shins get a little wet but most of your body makes it over?

In high school there was nothing more irritating than going to the city track championships and eternally coming in second to Lane Tech because they had three kids in every field event like the pole vault.

They could win city with that and a few forth place finishes in track events. But I don't think they ever scored a single point downstate.

At least you're not bitter.

In grade school, we didn't have a pole vault track/pit but we went to a meet that had one. So, on the bus on the way to the meet, our coach asked if anyone wanted to do it so we would have someone in the event.

So, I said I would. They gave any kids there that hadn't done it before about a 3 minute instruction on what to do and then turned some 13-year-olds loose on an incredibly dangerous event.

I think on my third attempt it was that I finally got airborne and then I was at the apex and I could have just easily fallen backward on the track as gone forward. I kind of fell to the side but still hit the mat.

It was all about kid safety back then.

And that's why Spiral's question is a jim dandy. There's 4 directions you could go and 3 of 'em aren't good.

how do you train for that ?

like do you ever see people with a giant bar in their backyard practicing ?

how do you even decide that's what you want to do with your life ?

i have a lot of questions