Pole size

generally, your pole size should be where if you hold the pole unside down, with the top of your fist beneath the gasket, when you put the handle of the pole of the ground your elbows should form a 90 degree angle.

but it's really personall preferance.

i use smaller poles than suggested, but you could just ditch the pole alltogether.
 
go with smaller poles, seriously going by the scale above sucks. Especially if you want some better balance pushing into urbans.
 
if you're doing some real skiing, the scale doesn't suck. It was made for the specific purpose of SKIING and has been used for a long time without failure.
 
I started out the season on pretty long poles (like up to my bellybutton), then when those broke, I got smaller ones (around my waiste). At first they felt really awkward, but then i got used to them, and I like them alot better. so the moral of this story, if you want poles that will be good in the park and mountain, get shorter.
 
Using the scale above, go slightly smaller for park, slightly longer for steep and on the mark for groomed
 
Short. 44inches 43inches. I'm 6'0/6'1. I like the feeling of small poles way better. Can't stand them long.
 
I am also 6'0 and i think really short poles will suit me well too. I want to have poles because its weird skiing without them but yet i dont want them to get in the way on rails or in the park in general.

Jea is overplayed
 
yeh man im the exact same...keep em TINY...i am the same size as you and mine are 31 inchs...im LOVE...them tiny..
 
yo short poles are sick, so steezy, and it doesnt really throw ur hole body out, like the only time u use em is to gain speed when ur droppin in, thats not hard
 
ya i dont i get them from my rentals bin...the ones that people just leave at the hill accumulate and whenever i brake a pole...i just go there ball park the length...my poles i have now are about 4" different. in size
 
well i was going for if all you ski is park, there's not really a need for poles, so why use them?
 
it's summer, look at garage sales. i usually get a few pairs for free are cheap at the rotary auction in my town.
 
that is tru, out of the park it could throw u off, but moguls, ur suppost to have shorter poles any ways, but out off moguls and park, i can see how it would throw u off
 
real skiing? sorry i grew up skiing moguls and am accustomed to shorter poles, because it is bascially impossible to ski moguls with the size poles of the scale. Arent moguls real skiing?
 
actually skiing moguls with long poles is a bunch harder than skiing them with short poles, because it forces you to get backseat and out of control and throws you out of your line.
 
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