Surf’s up! Can masters movement piggyback ‘beach track’ trend?
Heard of this? The French news agency AFP reports: “The inaugural world beach games could go ahead in 2017 featuring sports like beach track and field and beach American football, a senior Olympic official said on Wednesday. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah said the move followed the success of the Asian Beach Games, whose fourth edition starts next week in Thailand with a new-look programme. … Phuket will be the first Asian Beach Games to include beach track and field, which features 60-metre sprints, shot put, long jump, high jump and cross country.” I can picture a sand sprint and long jump, but how do you high-jump off sand? Scissors making a comeback? Land on a pit or a pile of sand? Let’s do this, folks! Nationals back to San Diego!
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We held 5 beach vaults in Santa Barbara 1995-2000.
In the 1999 SB Beach Vault, Stacy Dragila cleared 15′ and walked away with $100,000.00 and in the 2000 SB Beach Vault she cleared 15’5″ and walked away with $50,000.00. It was a lot of FUN for the large number of vaulters and spectators that attended. The only drawback was that it required a lot of work and $$$ to promote, set up and tear down. However—it was well worth the effort!
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