the crossbar is mean!

[ashcraftpv]

it wasn't Terek, he's a cool guy and wouldn't pull something like that. It was one of their dork freshman that was just learning how to vault........

[JMP8928]

two years ago, we had a kid come up short and came down with his feet on top of the crossbar. He bent the hell out of the crossbar, then his feet slipped of and it recoiled up and popped him in the mouth. He ended up with a cut below his bottom lip that went clean through! The trainer accidentally stuck a Q-tip all the way through it when she was cleaning it out. It was awesome!

holy cow... thats pretty gnarly.... if i ever break a crossbar, i'll prob. ask for a peice of it, just so i could make a snake catcher.

[BethelPV]

Yea Terek is awesome. I have met him once at the Ypsi street vault. That was awesome that the guy I was chasing last year for the high school state record made it to the Olympics, he's a stud!! I hear he's quite the partier too...

Zachmo

[ashcraftpv]

I hear he's quite the partier too...

oh yes.......

[lilspike333]

My friend straddled the bar and it snapped in half while she was on it. She had pieces of the cross bar stuck in her legs for weeks

[MightyMouse]

I was on my 3rd attempt for a PR and I get over the bar bearly touching it on the way over, I stand up and look at the cross bar which is still bouncing, it hops off its pegs and lands square between my eyes

[vaulter870]

i got a new one as i was coming off the top(very messy) one leg went under and one over needless to say i landed on the bar in a place i would have rather not to. i walked it off needless to say i dont think i made that height.

[maxiverson]

I didn't hurt myself with the crossbar. Instead, I hurt one of the referees. I missed my jump and while the bar was falling I kicked it and it went right in his face (he was there to catch my pole so he didn't pay attention to the crossbar). It cut him right over the eye, so he was lucky that it was not IN his eye! He came back the day after with some tape on the injury, and he told me that he was almost going to need stitches, I obviously apologize to him for all the pain he went through !

[Mecham]

My friend straddled the bar and it snapped in half while she was on it. She had pieces of the cross bar stuck in her legs for weeks

Good thing it wasnt a guy

[Mecham]

I was going for a PR and i barley tipped it off i fell to the pit with my legs apart watching it bounce on the standards and then the crossbar went long ways some how and landed in the space of doom. Someone called a trainer and everything

[mcminkz05]

I was going for a PR and i barley tipped it off i fell to the pit with my legs apart watching it bounce on the standards and then the crossbar went long ways some how and landed in the space of doom. Someone called a trainer and everything

Yeah, i can relate... Today i was jumping and i came down on the bar kidna weird, and it bent way down from my feet, and then shot back up between my legs... yeaaah, probably ranks among the most painful thigns iv ever experienced.. not to mention it wasnt much use tryign to vault more after that..

[ccpvus]

In the early 80's we were still using one of the triangular metal bars (whose idea was it to make a crossbar with straight edges?). As a friend was going over the bar his forehead came down and the bar spit his eyebrow open. He had to have stitchs. The crossbar stayed up.