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<\/p>\nThis article about the main instrument in pole vaulting \u2013 the pole \u2013 contains three parts. This article wants to teach the basics about the implement the \u201cvaulting pole.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the top of each pole there are two numbers; one tells the length of the pole the other one is a weight index. We first have a lock at the length.<\/p>\n
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UCS Spirit Pole; length 4.60 \/ 15 ft. 1 inch<\/p>\n
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Pacer One Pole; Length 3.55m<\/p>\n
Poles are usually produced in the length 3.70m, 4.00m, 4.30m, 4.60m, 4,90m. The first producers of vaulting poles had their base in the U.S., that is why the length increases in steps of a foot (30.48cm): 12 feet, 13 feet, 14 feet and so on. Calculated exactly, feet do not equal European measurement (for example 15 ft. is not exactly 4.60m) and poles are not exactly as long as you are told. Sometimes it is a centimetre more sometimes one less. Producing poles isn\u2019t rocket science. If car engineers would fabricate vaulting poles, there would be tolerances like you know from golf-sticks and they would cost a fortune.<\/p>\n
During the past 15 years there came up poles in new, intermediate length. First for pro\u2019s only, then for everybody. The rise of women\u2019s pole vault showed the need for smaller steps between poles. New poles in length of 4.15m, 4.45 and 4.75 where available. Today 15cm-increasement (1\/2 feet respectively) is usual: 11\u20196\u201d, 12\u2019, 12\u20196\u201d, 13\u2019, 13\u201d6 and so on. On every pole there is written the length in American and European units.<\/p>\n
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UCS\/Spirit pole; length 4.30m \/ 14 ft.<\/p>\n
What do you have to look for regarding the length of a pole?<\/p>\n
I could write a book about that. In short: Jumping with a bending of the pole, one should \u2013 at least in competition \u2013 choose the length of the pole regarding that his top hand is not lower than 30cm from the top end (the length of the pole follows the grip height not inversely!). The reason for this conclusion will be content of another article.<\/p>\n
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