 Poster: A snowHead
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Can anyone offer advice on when, at what age, or at what standard children should start to use ski poles, please?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Give them poles when they get to 18.
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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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stephen buck, I would have thought as soon as their ski instructors advise. Even if they don't use them for timing a turn, they will probably use them to keep a schuss going as a slope levels, or for poling along on flat ground.
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7 ish in my experience. Depends on each kid's ability
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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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As long as they ski in plow, I don't give the kids in my groups poles. They get in the way. If parents sow up with poles I tell them we don't use them.
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When they're old enough to remember not to snap them under the chairlift as it comes in to land.
So, sometime after the teens have ended...
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I get my four year old to use them as much as possible because they stop him from eating tons of snow and sucking his gloves!!  Don't bother with them half the time though, especially when it's really cold as holding them makes his hands get cold quicker. He's not ploughing now, but still doesn't REALLY need them.
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My youngest has been using them all the time since he was around 6 but he race trains so I guess that's a bit different and they can get in the way for little ones. A lot of kids like to have poles though and are quite disappointed when they begin and don't use them in my experience.
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When they're keen to use them, basically, (and by use I mean actually ski with them, not just want to have them because they see others with them) and take them away if it looks like they're not taking to them well - ie if they ski worse. General rule is minimum of six, confident in intermediate terrain. If I'm confident I have the time to develop the kids enough to use their poles effectively I don't mind them starting with them a bit earlier, and I'll sway towards taking them away from group lesson/kids on holiday, because there's less time and more pressing things to work on to make skiing as fun as possible.
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