PoleVaultPower.com

http://www.saltuspoles.co.za/

With the odd choice of wording on the pole label, they may get the unfortunate nickname of "stiffy".

"Hey Jim Bob, can I jump on, uh, borrow your stiffy?"

Saltus Poles will strive to make pole vault a stand alone sport in South Africa

Thats pretty cool

Oh and the training poles are ridiculously cheap R465 = 65USD
but I wonder how much shipping is?

Anyone want to venture out and do a cost comparison or convert the cost to american dollars? I don't really know why you would buy a pole from South Africa when you could have the best pole made shipped from UCS!

But it could still be a cool pole

MightyMouse wrote:

Saltus Poles will strive to make pole vault a stand alone sport in South Africa

Thats pretty cool

Oh and the training poles are ridiculously cheap R465 = 65USD
but I wonder how much shipping is?

That is for a 10'6" pole.

Shipping to the US would be outrageous. Just buy an Altius if you are looking for an inexpensive pole.

It looks pretty cool. I hope everything works out for them. It could be a real benefit to the whole continent.

MightyMouse wrote:Oh and the training poles are ridiculously cheap R465 = 65USD
but I wonder how much shipping is?

If you happen to be going there on vacation, you could always pick up a dozen poles and pay the oversize baggage fee to bring them back.

Altius's 10 foot pole is $175.00 you could get 3 stiffys for that price

he said "stiffy"

The Currency of South Africa is called the Rand. There are 6.9754 Rands per 1 U.S. Dollar as of Dec 12th 2006. The 13 foot series poles cost 1596 Rands. That converts to $228.80. The value of the Rand has been appreciating in comparison to the U.S. dollar. That same pole cost $206.93 if you bought it in October 2006. So you better buy these poles now because if things continue at this rate...you might have to pay $250 for that pole January 2007. Or you can ask Ben Bernanke at the Fed to start raising our interest rates...making U.S. treasuries more attractive to foreign investors...which in turn would cause the dollar to strengthen compared to the Rand. Yeah...that's right...I'm showing off!

Sebes wrote:The Currency of South Africa is called the Rand. There are 6.9754 Rands per 1 U.S. Dollar as of Dec 12th 2006. The 13 foot series poles cost 1596 Rands. That converts to $228.80. The value of the Rand has been appreciating in comparison to the U.S. dollar. That same pole cost $206.93 if you bought it in October 2006. So you better buy these poles now because if things continue at this rate...you might have to pay $250 for that pole January 2007. Or you can ask Ben Bernanke at the Fed to start raising our interest rates...making U.S. treasuries more attractive to foreign investors...which in turn would cause the dollar to strengthen compared to the Rand. Yeah...that's right...I'm showing off!

Big Ben (eat it Rothlisburger) is one of the last people i expected to hear mentioned on this board! If this board had Karma like many others do, that would be +1K for the last 2 posts!!!

Anyone have any updates about this company? Their website only lists pretty small poles.

Agreed 100%

Vaultiletics wrote:Anyone want to venture out and do a cost comparison or convert the cost to american dollars? I don't really know why you would buy a pole from South Africa when you could have the best pole made shipped from UCS!

But it could still be a cool pole