which poles

ise wrote:

RossF wrote:Go to a shop, flip a pole upside down, grab it beneath the basket and if your elbow is at a right angle then those are the ones for you!

are you sure? :?: :lol: don't we make a correction for that fact ski boots and skis stack height is quite high (unless you're doing it in high heels)?

I'll borrow yours next time I go shopping for poles )

Here i am standing at home in my boots, with a tape measure in my hand.
I make it 110cm with arm roughly at rightangles. So, add about 5cm for the pointy bit...and so i'm looking at about 115cm, does that sound ok?
It's not easy 'popping in' to a ski shop where i live! Would be about 90 miles to the nearest. Ebay is far closer :D

Sounds sensible to me, you can always cut them down.

RossF wrote:Now I think about it, it is too late for me to change it now you have quoted me so go for it, now is your chance to shine Ise!

not really, I'm not entirely sure I agree with myself :lol: it's no bad thing to have the pole slightly shorter IMHO

I never really got why we're supposed to flip the pole upside down really, for nordic walking you reckon that pole is held the normal way round and you're arm is slightly more than 90' or at angle where if water were running down your arm it would run off the ends of your fingers which seems a simpler idea. It's all a bit moot I think, poles are sold in 5cm graduations so you end up rounding up and down anyway.

For that matter, while I think about it, it's all a bit silly, unless you're deformed there's a series of ratios of heights and limb length which are set like the Vitruvian Man so you ought to work it from the height anyway. Or is that harder than just grabbing a pole? :lol:

ise wrote:I never really got why we're supposed to flip the pole upside down really

at the risk of sounding completely ignorant I always assumed it was because in hire shops you're standing on those holey mats which the tip would go through. may have become universal for this reason?

caron-a wrote:

ise wrote:I never really got why we're supposed to flip the pole upside down really

at the risk of sounding completely ignorant I always assumed it was because in hire shops you're standing on those holey mats which the tip would go through. may have become universal for this reason?

possibly :lol: I suppose it's so we measure the contact length of the pole assuming the tip is fully in the snow, which probably isn't realistic :lol: