When you are sking make sure to hold your poles and put your arms in the straps.
I am saying thins becasue one time I lost me balnace and droped my poles halfway down and I had to go back up and then come down slow to get them.

Yes, the best way to do it is to put your arm through the strap and then hold the remainder of the strap againsts the pole. Diagram below explains it much better..

http://ozreport.com/pub/TumbleStrap.jpg

Nice diagram. I also had this problem once lost my pole half way down the slope it wasnt fun back tracking trying to find it.

Nice diagram. I also had this problem once lost my pole half way down the slope it wasnt fun back tracking trying to find it.

Of course not, the strap actually broke once for me and I ended up loosing my pole.

lol, where they rentals? That would defiently stink to lose your pole have to go through the akward lines again, explaining how you lost it.

Just as important as putting them on before you go down the hill is taking them off before you load on the lift or chair. I have seen people get injured by their pole jamming in the snow and poking them. And I am not innocent myself I snapped a pole last season by being lazy and not taking my strap off.

I once threw my pole at a man. turns out ski patrol didn't like that much:D

i never use straps
why?
because im good at skiing

ya i dont use my straps and i have no problem dropping them or anything. if you dont fall it isnt that big of a deal. just make sure you hold on to them.

I have never used straps before.. But I will try it out

i dont even use poles anymore

thats not bad in the park but in the powder it makes it alot harder. and froget about the moguls.

thats not bad in the park but in the powder it makes it alot harder. and froget about the moguls.

if wintergreen ever has powder, ill use poles, but i wont be using poles in the next couple hundred years

ya ive never been out there

ya ive never been out there

yah, wintergreen va is not worth it. best tubing park in the state though.
ive always kinda wanted to ski down a tubing lane. giant rollers, skinny lanes and 40mph top speeds on a tube. niiiiice

thats sick

thats sick

i havent done it. they would arrest me and ban me from the mountain

Sometimes when Im snowboarding I wish I just had a set of poles!
The bother of taking your foot from its binding to walk up a track really sucks!

ya that would be a pain to have to take your foot out of your bnding every time you get on a char lift.

I never use straps, except to hang up my poles when I am finished skiing. There was a time when poles did not have straps--only hand grips.
Nothing to do with how skilled I am or how frequently or infrequently I fall. More to do with the seriousness of my falls and the liability pole straps place on my ability to free my hand from the pole/ strap to avoid potential thumb or hand injuries. Like running gates (racing) or glade or tree skiing where there is a potential for a serious fall or "catching a pole basket".

There is a danger of thumb or hand injury if you happen to fall on the pole and somehow your hand is wedged between the pole and body. -- I would rather hike up to get my pole than suffer a thumb dislocation. Also if your pole basket gets caught anywhere while you are flying down the mountain, or getting on or off a lift, and it happens past enough so that you cannot get your hand out of the strap, there is the potential for injury.