 Poster: A snowHead
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To some extent a follow on from a previous post...
Yes, I use the straps ("correctly"!) if I'm not using my own poles. However, since my 9th birthday (I'm now 36!!!) I have used the same sword grip handles on every pair of ski poles I have used (except for my speed poles). The problem is, that after 27 years, the plastic on my much cherished handles has degraded and the flexible protrusions have snapped off. This means that I can no longer hang my poles on the chairlift safetly bar.
I know these handles are not considered safe/cool but I like them...
So, an appeal to all skiers!!!
Does anyone have/not want (or know where I can source) some replacements?
Cheers!  [/b]
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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you may be lucky or unlucky, I had a set of poles with grips like them but will need to check if they survived the various garage purging sessions. Will check and get back to you.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| daehwons wrote: |
| you may be lucky or unlucky, I had a set of poles with grips like them but will need to check if they survived the various garage purging sessions. Will check and get back to you. |
Excellent, thanks.
There were quite a variety of shapes available in days gone by. My wife has some which are quite "wide" (they are kind of molded to fill the palm) whereas mine are really just a normal handle with extensions over the back of the hand. I thinkthere's a greater risk of skiers thumb with the more molded variety. I'de even considered taking a mold of mine and getting new ones injected!
Still...if someone's got some...much easier!
Ta!
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I've got a pair of Scott 'The Ski' poles with sword grips c.1981
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Some classic Warren Miller segments were on the TV last night. One good thing about these sequences is the remarkable quality of the slow-motion.
So I strained my eyes to look at those being heli-dropped, as well as those coming down the couloirs and chutes to see if they were strapless, or with straps.
One advantage of those vintage white ski gloves is the you can clearly see the straps across the palms......
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| Spyderman wrote: |
| I've got a pair of Scott 'The Ski' poles with sword grips c.1981 |
Ah ha! My 9th birthday was 1980! Will anyone ever speak to me again if I admit I used to sing into the handles?
Ok...you can stop laughing now. I stopped doing that.
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| DrBullet wrote: |
I stopped doing that. |
Ha! that's what you say 
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I've got a pair of Scott 'The Ski' poles with sword grips c.1981
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My first poles. Have them in the workshop, with my first pair of skis.
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...but this an appeal!
Who is willing to part with their antiques?!
I'm willing to buy (or donate to Snowheads) in return for your relics!
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DrBullet,
A donation to Snowheads and you pay the postage. Do you want the whole poles 125cm or just the grips?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Spyderman wrote: |
DrBullet,
A donation to Snowheads and you pay the postage. Do you want the whole poles 125cm or just the grips? |
Hi Spyderman,
Just the grips would be great!
Shall we sort this via paypal?
Just tried to send a private message...but have forgotten how to do it!!! Please feel free to send me one with postage costs etc!
Cheers,
Nigel
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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DrBullet,
I've PM'd you.
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Wow - I am looking for the same handles for my husband - anybody?
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You know it makes sense.
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I am imagining something like a rapier hand guard being discussed here, and remember seeing something similar on the TV racing this year and also on the poles of the local ski club kids in resort last week and this is the Leki yellow hand guards on this web site: http://www.leki.com/Skiing/RaceGear/ although not the sword grip poles themselves I wondered if these would accomplish the same thing for those folks looking for them.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Any other non-strappers here ?
I have never, ever used the straps on my poles (except for hanging them over my skis whilst parked) and I can't think why anyone would want to risk the additional injury risk that comes with wrapping that strap around their hand or wrist.
I've never dropped them either, even in the biggest tumbles but quite often they've got stuck into the snow whilst poleing and left me empty-handed a few metres further on.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| moffatross wrote: |
Any other non-strappers here ?
I have never, ever used the straps on my poles (except for hanging them over my skis whilst parked) and I can't think why anyone would want to risk the additional injury risk that comes with wrapping that strap around their hand or wrist.
I've never dropped them either, even in the biggest tumbles but quite often they've got stuck into the snow whilst poleing and left me empty-handed a few metres further on. |
Me too, they drive me round the bend. I may be thick but I can never work out the best way to fit them over my wrists. Then I'm sure that if I fall awkwardly I'll end up doing myself a hideous injury. I feel it's worth the small risk of losing a pole to leave them loose.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Anyone else fancy some fencing on the slopes? I'm thinking that a couple of epees for poles, plus a bit of extra padding on the jacket could lead to an interesting couple of runs... 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| ct1 wrote: |
| moffatross wrote: |
Any other non-strappers here ?
I have never, ever used the straps on my poles (except for hanging them over my skis whilst parked) and I can't think why anyone would want to risk the additional injury risk that comes with wrapping that strap around their hand or wrist.
I've never dropped them either, even in the biggest tumbles but quite often they've got stuck into the snow whilst poleing and left me empty-handed a few metres further on. |
Me too, they drive me round the bend. I may be thick but I can never work out the best way to fit them over my wrists. Then I'm sure that if I fall awkwardly I'll end up doing myself a hideous injury. I feel it's worth the small risk of losing a pole to leave them loose. |
I don't think that thickness comes into the decision not to strap-in, in fact quite the opposite is probably true certainly at the extreme steep level. When you really need your pole, in a hurry, you simply don't want to be restricted to having it attached to you at the handle end. I can also recall reading about some horrendous injuries incurred on people who had not just broken wrists, hands or arms but other more bizarre things involving chairlifts, eyes and impalings as a result of inability to release their poles.
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moffatross, the reason to strap, AFAIK. is to help in poleing and other points where you don't want grip to be the only thing attaching you. I have never heard of (or met) anyone injured 'cos of their poles being attached. But, if you're skiing in trees (where they can get caught in branches/roots) it's a big no-no to attach them.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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under a new name, I haven't used the straps since someone showed me his thumb, hurt in a fall by a strap-on (ski-pole, that is), which articulated more like a shoulder than, say, a knee.
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| veeeight wrote: |
| One advantage of those vintage white ski gloves is the you can clearly see the straps across the palms...... |
"Palms"???
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why do ski racers use straps if they dont do any good?
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| skimottaret wrote: |
| why do ski racers use straps if they dont do any good? |
Do they?
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That's a fantastic picture with just the rear few inches of her edges buried in the snow as she almost looks like she is willing herself through that turn against the laws of physics. I saw a great air turn on 'Ski Sunday' today by a French racer during a slalom who I thought deserved victory just for style alone. 
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