Some women’s pole vaulting at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia with American Stacy Dragila, and Australian Tatiana Grigorieva.

Best known for winning the bronze medal in the pole vault at the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest. Joe Dial‘s personal best was 5.96 metres, achieved in June 1987 in Norman, Oklahoma. Here is a video vaulting indoors from a year before his pr.

The Theory of Evolution claims that only the strong shall survive but the Theory of Competition says “just because they’re the strong doesn’t mean they can’t get their asses kicked!

After the Beijing Olympics, Australian Steve Hooker naturally did a bunch of press after his Olympic Gold performance. This is one of the best show appearances I have seen by a sports figure.

We recently posted The Kipping Process – Part 1 . Here is the second and third part of the  instructional video teaching how to progress towards learning a kip, one of the most essential gymnastics skills.

We will be posting more gymnastics videos soon.

Not pole vaulting, but very, very cool. Trampolinist Oli Lemieux training.

The “unknown vaulter” is Tim McMichael. He posted some of his pole vault tips at PoleVault.com