Ski poles

Ski poles as a device for walking on skis appeared recently - not earlier than the nineteenth century. Previously, skiers used one stick, and this at a time when skiing was not a sport, but had a purely utilitarian value, was quite enough. The stick used by skiers, served as a support for walking, a brake on the descents and weapons - just like that, just in case. You never know what kind of person or animal you will meet in the winter forest.

And only when people decided to compete, who will run a distance over a previously laid-out ski track, there were paired ski poles. As the appearance and development of varieties of skiing, the sticks changed, improved, adapted to different modes of movement.

In the middle of the twentieth century, the ski poles were mostly wooden and were made from light and strong stems of bamboo. Throughout the twentieth century, they improved. First, the steel bamboo came to replace the bamboo, then they were changed to sticks from duralumin pipes of small diameter. Ski poles for movement along the plain and slalom "parted" around the fifties of the last century. Since then, their improvement continues. Following duraluminium, the turn of titanium sticks came, and in the eighties and nineties of the last century the first samples of graphite sticks and sticks appeared from modern light and strong plastic. Often they are made of composite materials.

Ski poles designed for slalom and downhill from the mountain, do a little twisted to improve the aerodynamic characteristics of the athlete on the descent and to exclude the possibility of clinging rings at the goalposts. For the descent along the slopes of different steepness, sticks are made telescopic, with a varying length.

For walking on skis along the plain, the sticks should be chosen so: standing on a flat surface, put the sticks next to them. Handle should be at shoulder level, not higher. Especially "advanced" use another method. The stick must be turned upside down and hand-ringed. The angle between the shoulder and forearm should be ninety degrees. The main thing here is not to mix up, which part of the body is considered to be the shoulder, and which is the forearm. It is better for people who doubt to look into the school textbook of anatomy.

The production of this part of the ski inventory is occupied by many well-known firms in different countries. Exel ski poles are considered the most popular and famous in the world. The sticks of this manufacturer proved to be well in the seventies of the last century, when many leading sportsmen, Speaking at various competitions of the highest level, won many medals of different dignity. Exel produces the widest range of products for all types of skiing.

From the Russian manufacturers it is possible to allocate the company STC (Sports technology center) - the Center of sports technologies. STC ski poles, not inferior to the world's leading manufacturers for quality, win in price. The cost of similar quality STC products is approximately twenty-five to thirty percent less than imports. The Russian company STC was established in 1992 and, in its twenty-year history, managed to create a reputation as a manufacturer of quality sports equipment.