carbon and carbon weave by pacer

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carbon and carbon weave by pacer

Unread postby dheldr01 » Mon May 16, 2011 9:06 pm

does anyone know the difference between a pacer mystic carbon and a pacer mystic carbon weave?

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Re: carbon and carbon weave by pacer

Unread postby Decamouse » Tue May 17, 2011 5:21 am

Pacer Mystic Carbon uses layers of straight carbon tape - fibers all in one direction - very similar to Carbon FX - one layer run all in the long axis and one layer spiral wrapped
The Carbon Mystic Weave uses woven Carbon fiber material and uses it for 3 or 4 body wraps depending on when the pole was made - so some fiber around circumference and some axially.

Here are some comments from Mikko Latvala - they are pretty much spot on in my opinion:

Comparison between Pacer FX, Carbon FX and Carbon Weave.
Best results with different models. In brackets is best result, biggest pole and lenght I have used with each model. At the end there is year when I have done it.
Old Carbon 566 (13.7/5.00m) -01
Carbon FX 560 (14.4/5.10m) -02
Carbon FX 560 (13.7/5.00m) -05
Pacer FX 563 (14.6/5.00m) -08
Carbon Weave 550 (14.3/5.00m) -09
Weight:
Weave feels very light, a little bit lighter than Carbon FX but big difference to Pacer FX. It is much easier to control my run up and planting with Weave.
Bending:
Even my take off is not so good and I have quite low grips(4.80-4.90), weave started to bend quite easily. It felt ”softer” in take off than Carbon FX. Weave and Pacer FX are quite close each other at take off but what makes it easier is the weight of the pole.
I think Weave has the best bend, it is more circular than Carbon FX and Pacer FX. I think weave is not so exact for take off angle. Even if vault is moving forward is a little bit low, it still bend very circular. (if you understand what I am meaning)
Recoil:
I think Pacer FX has slowest recoiling of these three models. Weave and Carbon FX has quite similar recoil. But anyway all these three models has quite fast recoil. I did one pv session with 14.9/500 spirit pole and its recoil was much slower than weave´s.
I used Weave poles only twice in Chula Vista, so experiences are mostly from one competition I did there.


That is similar to feedback I got from other vaulters and their coaches -
Plant like crap sometimes ok most times


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