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Climbing up the pole is already forbidden as a direct result of people actually doing that with a normal pole; specifically neither hand may hold the pole above the initial position of the upper hand. The other two methods are excluded by the rule that the bottom end of the pole must be within the box during the jump, so Randall will have to think of something else to reach his goal. 79.141.154.179 08:16, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
- On a related point of interest, there are lots of occasions, particularly in more equipment orientated sports such as cycling and rowing where technical Innovations allowed a competitor to dominate and were banned immediately afterwards. Usually these aren't as colourful as Randall's proposals but the superman position bike frame, sliding rigger rowing boat and LZR "super suit for swimming all enabled new records and were deemed "tech doping" afterwards.
- Most records set with these have since been broken but it's still thought they would confer a significant advantage. 2a0d:5600:24:b::21 (talk) 10:54, 20 December 2025 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- The first is a good point, but I actually couldn't find a rule that the pole must remain within the box, just that it can only touch the landing mat after being properly planted. 96.237.242.213 15:30, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
- When I saw it, I thought #2 was more of a "Slinky" type of pole. Where you would run normally, then plant, and the inertia would take you over, without having to "jump off". SDSpivey (talk) 15:13, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
Time limit is mentioned in both pole vault wikipedia page and IAAF regulations, but couldn't find any good link to just link to only time limit directly.[citation needed]--Trimutius (talk) 13:54, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
- USATF rule book, page 96, rule 180.12(e): "Time in minutes for initiating a field event trial". You have 1 minute to start your run-up once your turn starts (i.e. when your name is called as "up"). When there are either 2 or 3 competitors left, you have 3 minutes. When you are the final competitor, you have 5 minutes. That's why the videos of Mondo Duplantis show him taking FOREVER to try for another world record. USATF and World Athletics rules are either the same or similar; I don't have my WA rule book handy. 63.155.75.151 03:14, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
More like DebunkXKCD. 209.52.88.66 17:01, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
someone should add this to the fun fact category, I dont want to screw it upQwertyuiopfromdefly (talk) 07:02, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
Also, there may be less need of a rule change, because, except for solution 1, none of these work in a 3D world. A pole with snall diameter can be approximated to have measure 0 in a 3D world. In other words, the challenge of a pole vault lies therein to accomblish a task with a n-2 dimensional device in a world with n dimensions. I believe a rule specification like this should avoid any workarounds in the general case. 2a00:20:c004:5ba1:5b08:2dd2:9775:4d05 (talk) 14:37, 21 December 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~) Add comment
