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Pologo is a new Olympic vaulting event, requiring the use of a new piece of equipment, that of the Pogo-Pole.
This is simply a conventional vaulting pole that has a pogo stick arrangement at one end. It's used in the same conventional manner as a vaulting pole, except that the pogo spring attachment
provides a few more feet of lift when clearing the high bar. (I'm surprised that it's not in regular use already)
physics of pole vaulting
http://polevaultphysics.blogspot.com/
[Voice, May 02 2014]
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Somehow I was envisioning playing Polo on a giant
"Go" board. |
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(I get it [2 fries]) Although I never quite understood
that game! |
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I am also bunning the idea if it can be done as pole
vaulting hurdles! Why just stop at one? |
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This could be unhanced by having a telescopic
vaulting pole containing some diesel and a glowplug. |
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Now THERE'S a true Halfbakery piece of terminology - " unhanced ". |
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Too bad about the hushed up death of the test pilot for the early prototype - if only they'd thought to provide him with oxygen, his brief apogee need not have been fatal. |
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//need not have been fatal// We don't know he's
dead until we find the body, or at least the head. |
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The (sideways) spring offered by today's pole vault
sticks far overshadow the benefit of adding this
device and its weight. In fact all possible conversion
of sideways to vertical momentum is already being
accomplished. |
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I like the flippant tone of the idea, but Voice is spot-
on with the physics here. The whole pole already
acts like a bigger spring than you'd get from a pogo
stick. Ever seen someone pogo stick even 1/2th the
height of a pole vaulter? |
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it... tickles, in a sinusoidal sort of way. Like the wave should be able to decrease in wavelength gaining strength into nanoinscrutiny... and beyond. |
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