COACH JAN JOHNSON aka SKY JUMPERS
Featured in the video below are Barry P. Boden, Orthopedic Surgeon (American Journal of Sports Medicine) and Jan Johnson, "expert" pole vault coach, each promoting Johnson's latest income-creating brainchild, the "soft plant box." Boden and Johnson are described by the interviewer as, "the two most important people in the sport of pole vaulting." Dr. Boden also showers Johnson with praise by adding, "Jan is definitely the guru and the expert in every possible way when it comes to pole vaulting." Contributing in regard to his own infinite expertise, Johnson states, "I've seen several really major bad pole vault accidents, uh, where people were seriously hurt, with my own eyes. Ahh, a couple of 'em at my own camps..."
Oddly enough, in this same video, Dr. Boden and Jan Johnson chronicle the fact that Jan Johnson's teachings generate avoidable LETHAL HAZARDS that actually result in producing vast money-making opportunities for track & field industrial complex "insiders." Boden and Johnson themselves go on to ADMIT that at least 80% of Johnson's students fall into the plant box while Johnson devises unending "equipment fixes" of which Johnson puts forward (introduces), patents, promotes and profits. My experience with Jan Johnson is firsthand, as I initially met him in 1991 when my own son became one of many naive teenagers who've PAID to attend Jan Johnson's hazardous Sky Jumpers Pole Vault Camps. Johnson often brags he has single-handedly taught his lethal methods to tens of thousands of pole vaulters over the past 50 years. This is Johnson's livelihood. In Johnson's own words: "It's hard to believe you could make a career out of that!" These are truly individuals without shame. Don't just believe me, please, WATCH!
Referring to pole vault, Dr. Boden states, "the instance [number of injuries per participant] was actually the highest of any sport prior to 2003..." Keep in mind here, that by 2003, Jan Johnson had already been coaching his lethal pole vault methods for more than TWO DECADES! What were the results? In collaboration, taking advantage of their high "instance" data, Boden and Johnson now initiated rule changes in 2003 that TRIPLED PRICES of landing mats while increasing mat sizes only "68%." This means that a 200% "PRICE" INCREASE was conjunctive with a disproportionate 68% "SIZE" INCREASE. While orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Barry P. Boden (American Journal of Sports Medicine), together with Jan Johnson focus primarily on "equipment" shortfalls and reiterating that Johnson is the greatest "expert" of all time, each has full knowledge that pole vault MISEDUCATION IS ACTUALLY THE MOST CATASTROPHIC FACTOR they are avoiding! WHY would they NOT rather be keenly focused on refining technique? $$$ Persistent to this very day, Dr. Barry Boden and Coach Jan Johnson are still flagrantly pushing high-priced "equipment" fixes while purposely overlooking the PRIMARY PROBLEM: THEIR DEADLY POLE VAULT METHODS!
You can search the Internet to see for yourself multiple related products Jan Johnson has financial interest in promoting. Boden and Johnson (8:12 in the video above) also employ a fear tactic they've contrived by expressing the urgency of NOT installing Johnson's latest BOX INVENTION guarantees the deadly consequence that, "if an athlete were to fall from 12 feet 5 inches, there would be a 100% probability of a fatality" in ALL plant boxes Johnson wants to replace with HIS OWN. Dr. Barry Boden follows up by stating that "80%" of Jan Johnson's pole vaulters (more than "5000" surveyed) have fallen into the "vault box." Someone should ask them: "WHY are 80% of Jan Johnson's pole vault students falling into the plant box?" The following quote constitutes one of Jan Johnson's most sadistic perversions:
"KIDS COME UP SHORT ALL THE TIME... THE LUCKY ONES CAN GET THEIR FEET BACK UNDER 'EM... THE UNLUCKY ONES DON'T..." (Jan Johnson-06:17-YouTube-qHkQocj4_CA)
Does "pole vault expert" Jan Johnson actually believe outcomes of this deadly event be
determined upon LUCK? Any rational human being might THINK
"PROPER TRAINING to achieve
CONTROLLED SKILLS is the intelligent determinant! NOT LUCK!" Dr. Boden also specifically states,
"You gotta remember, for every catastrophic injury, there's probably hundreds, thousands even, of non-catastrophic injuries..." and
"80% landing in that box, there's going to be a lot of other injuries occurring..." I wrote to Dr. Barry Boden
this certified letter (January of 2016) concerning his and Johnson's pole vault misinformation and
I've never received any response."80% LANDING IN THAT BOX, THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF OTHER INJURIES OCCURRING..." (Dr. Barry P. Boden-YouTube-EXc5F9CiO6c)
Undaunted, by even the self-exposed hazardous consequences their lethal teachings produce, these corrupt characters remain "laser focused" on proposing expensive "EQUIPMENT" alterations upon which they can capitalize while knowingly encouraging their DEADLY FLAWED pole vault METHODS to continue. Johnson himself solemnly states, in the video above, his belief that it will take another "DEATH" to help him "sell" his latest "product." To further quote Johnson, "We need to hurt somebody!" The fact is, while POLE VAULT MISEDUCATION HURTS ATHLETES intentional MISeducation is a proven "MONEY-MAKER" for elite Track & Field Industrial Complex INSIDERS!
"There has to be a special place in HELL for these sadistic ghouls!"
If you are a responsible parent, educator, publisher, medical professional, school administrator, athletic director, coach, or any rational person concerned for the well-being of gullible athletes, please, share these ultimately life-saving details. It is crucial that vulnerable decathletes and all other wannabe pole vaulters know how to avoid preventable catastrophic injuries that have produced abundant needless human suffering associated with INTERNATIONAL pole vault MISEDUCATION. My mission is revealing to the world HOW TO POLE VAULT correctly while exposing the deadly ongoing corruption infecting this event that has produced proven horrific avoidable catastrophic consequences.
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