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Actually, for the regional system, the only thing I think they should fix is that there should be two flights and all would be ok. I was just unable to warmup, I had problems with my approach and I couldn't fix them with two jumps in one hour due to 30 athletes on the runway.. so that kinda totally ...

It's not the same, you don't have 30 guys at the same time do you? Besides, it's definitely not the same for my country where I'm already qualified for the Worlds this year and the Olympics next year (we just have to jump 560).

I'll try to post the video though, I have it on my camera!

I am retiring (graduated), with one year left.
And I just made a new PR, 560! That would be a good senior mark for the next year..

Novo Mesto, Slovenian Grand Prix

1. Andrej Poljanec 560
2. Jure Batagelj 520
3. Jurij Rovan 520


And I'm still pissed about NCAA regional system and me getting screwed and kicked out of nationals.

It was a street vault. But a really regular one.
I got kicked out of NCAA nationals cause I couldn't warm up at regionals (30 guys at the same time) and then made 546 on the same day as nationals. That would get me second. Too bad I already graduated and won't come back for my senior year.

I don't even know if I want to get involved in that discussion, but I really want to say something.. If you get on a bigger pole on practice using a light tap, you can usually use it easily on the meet. And I can't see a reason why you guys say it's wrong to get to know the pole before you can actua...

So maybe I shouldn't even write here that we do it.. To stop Americans from smoking.

That surprises me a lot. But the thing is that we don't tap beginners to get on beginning poles. That is a probably a key element right there. Andrej, do you see vaulters out there who get taps all the time, or is it only when moving to a bigger pole? Only when moving to a bigger pole. I don't know...

That surprises me a lot. But the thing is that we don't tap beginners to get on beginning poles. We only do that for our best guys to get on even bigger poles and it all seems even safer than without tapping. I assume that the thing that is dangerous with tapping is that if a vaulter doesn't react i...

They have a lot of great under 20 years old vaulters. Not sure what happens to them after that age though..

Actually a lot of Europeans do that. What made you think that Europeans don't tap?

Does anybody know what this year's qualifying procedure is? Do they take top 5 automatically from each region, plus top 7 to the at-large pool or did they change it again?