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altius poles

Unread postby ndvaulter » Sun May 01, 2005 10:37 pm

what does anyone know about altius poles I know that they dont cost alot and i need somthing to work w/ for a while.

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Unread postby ndvaulter » Sun May 01, 2005 11:05 pm

if someone knows of any other good poles that they have good experiences w/ please give me info on those too

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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Sun May 01, 2005 11:10 pm

Altius poles are good poles for high schoolers. They're cheap so you can buy more. I'd rather see a school have a decent series of Altius poles (the cheapest poles out there), than a crappy series of only a few carbon poles (more expensive).

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Unread postby Bruce Caldwell » Sun May 01, 2005 11:56 pm

Altius and Catapole are the reasonable good values on the market

Then rocket and Skypoles
after that is Spirit, ESSX, and Some types of Pacers.
The later three are the engineered poles!!

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Unread postby blakedow » Sun May 08, 2005 8:27 pm

Altius poles rock my world!! As long as you don't mind a slow uncoil. :P If I could build the perfect series, I would want all my poles to be Altius!
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Unread postby science geek » Mon May 23, 2005 12:10 pm

that's all we have at our school. I like the fact that the person we order them from gives us one free if we order 4. this makes buying poles very reasonable, and since i only have 20 poles for all my vaulters, i like them a lot. I have heard people say they don't like them much, but I think that they work well for all levels of vaulters.


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