Welcome to the online Pacerpole shop

What is a Trekking pole?   A name coined by the Ski industry around the early 1990’s, for a Ski-pole with a sectional shaft – to offer to Walkers for telescoping-down, making it easier to stow on their pack, ready for use on a descent. Offering a suspended pole-strap (so tensile and tortional loading) for walking – whether for trekking or for the more recent “nordic” action proves awkward to control, and is a potential source of discomfort.

What is a Pacerpole? It is not a ‘trekking or nordic pole’. Pacerpoles are science based, and unique. They are designed from first principles analysing the functional anatomy and bio mechanics of our “Walking” gait to Lift-and-Shift our trunk Load around (by accessing upper body power without distorting our skeletal frame) whilst reinforcing our erect posture/alignment/Form. It is designed for the body so it doesn’t need a strap – just a relaxed hand within the handles contours to control our arm’s “stride-lever” action (similar to “contoured footbeds” controlling our leg’s stride for improved performance).

On the 18th November last year, 2 pairs of Pacerpoles completed a Yoyo Appalachian Trail, over 4,600 miles since April, with 30mile days! An epic in maximising potential whether walking on Trails ….. or on pavements “My Pacerpoles are great. I’ve extolled their virtues to many people, over and again. I’m now walking tall in my old age (92), and my arthritic back and hands appreciate the difference every step I take”. (Sybil)

The unique part of any Pacerpole is its Top shaft section – with its handed, uniquely contoured handle to control the 3-D motion of the arm’s leverage.

With this in mind we are offering a pair of Top shaft sections, ending in a Lever-locking mechanism which can lock onto “a lower shaft of your own choice” which can be in Alloy or Carbon fibre.

Accessing high quality raw materials for the shaft has been challenging but we can currently source AL7075 16mm and 18mm diameter, top shaft section, which are the two ‘standard’ top shaft diameter options used for walking/ski poles in general.