A new thread shooting off from Breaching and Alternative Competitions.
Check it out:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXR9VDqarmk]YouTube - Aquatic Vault #1[/ame]
Introducing the new event or discipline of: Aquatic Vaulting. I'll claim credit for it and will expect 1€ or $1USD from all competitions for each Vault attempt. (are you waiting for the Smiley Face?
To be fair I'll send 33% of that to Eric Fattah for also coming up with "Aquatic High Jump" (I think "Vault" has more mystery, more ring to it), and the other 33% to Laminar who Eric says was also talking about it with him. But hey, I'm the first to show it, and I want my name on the top of the Wikipedia page! Search on Google or YouTube and all you get is one video about "Henry, the pole vaulting fish" and some catfish jumping around. So unless someone can find an earlier visual documentation, here we are. Making history!
Getting more serious... I think this thing has potential. I see it as different from Aquatic Breaching (see other threads). It's just like High Jump or Pole Vault in Track & Field. There could be Pool and Open Water versions. The key will be in devising some kind of apparatus to hold the "bar". Vaulting over lane lines could also work in the interim or for practicing, and you can see that I have a long way to go to actually do it! But I've only got 1.4 mtrs to work with in that spot so don't be too hard on me. And I'm doing it with bi-fins (Force Fins Tan Delta).
I'm thinking you could start off with the bar at 10cm or so. Then keep raising it until no one can do it. And the apparatus has to assure that random splashes or waves don't knock the bar over. Here's a pic attached to get the engineers here starting to think about how to build this thing. Basically just take away the yellow inflatable platform, and there it is.
So what do you think? Should I set up that bank account? Any improvements? Or better yet... who's got a new video to show how Aquatic Vaulting is really done?
Haraldo
sports inventor and sometime participant
Check it out:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXR9VDqarmk]YouTube - Aquatic Vault #1[/ame]
Introducing the new event or discipline of: Aquatic Vaulting. I'll claim credit for it and will expect 1€ or $1USD from all competitions for each Vault attempt. (are you waiting for the Smiley Face?
To be fair I'll send 33% of that to Eric Fattah for also coming up with "Aquatic High Jump" (I think "Vault" has more mystery, more ring to it), and the other 33% to Laminar who Eric says was also talking about it with him. But hey, I'm the first to show it, and I want my name on the top of the Wikipedia page! Search on Google or YouTube and all you get is one video about "Henry, the pole vaulting fish" and some catfish jumping around. So unless someone can find an earlier visual documentation, here we are. Making history! Getting more serious... I think this thing has potential. I see it as different from Aquatic Breaching (see other threads). It's just like High Jump or Pole Vault in Track & Field. There could be Pool and Open Water versions. The key will be in devising some kind of apparatus to hold the "bar". Vaulting over lane lines could also work in the interim or for practicing, and you can see that I have a long way to go to actually do it! But I've only got 1.4 mtrs to work with in that spot so don't be too hard on me. And I'm doing it with bi-fins (Force Fins Tan Delta).
I'm thinking you could start off with the bar at 10cm or so. Then keep raising it until no one can do it. And the apparatus has to assure that random splashes or waves don't knock the bar over. Here's a pic attached to get the engineers here starting to think about how to build this thing. Basically just take away the yellow inflatable platform, and there it is.
So what do you think? Should I set up that bank account? Any improvements? Or better yet... who's got a new video to show how Aquatic Vaulting is really done?
Haraldo
sports inventor and sometime participant
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