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Ok I'm crushing a 14' 170lb 16.2 flex. Standards buried and still hitting it on the way through landing deep in the pit. What pole would you recommend next?

Oh and I'm holding at 13'7", its a UCS Spirit, and I'm in high school so I cant hold any higher legally.

a 14' 175

what flex #?

Noah C wrote:what flex #?

hard to say without video. as a HS athlete, a couple points will more than likely not make a big difference. if it is a matter of buying a pole, and you can only buy one, i would say look for about a 15.5... reasonable jump, but not unattainable for a hs athlete.

If you are crushing it then you definately want atleast a 14'0 15.2... In my experience its easy to make a transition to a 1.0cm bigger pole in the line of 14ft poles. 14ft poles i would say you want 0.8-1.2 bigger /15ft 0.5-1.0/ 15'6 0.4-0.8/ 16ftplus 0.4-0.8/ 5.20poles 0.2-0.6.... Of course these are all relative to the athlete. Just trying to help though.

KYLE ELLIS wrote:If you are crushing it then you definately want atleast a 14'0 15.2... In my experience its easy to make a transition to a 1.0cm bigger pole in the line of 14ft poles. 14ft poles i would say you want 0.8-1.2 bigger /15ft 0.5-1.0/ 15'6 0.4-0.8/ 16ftplus 0.4-0.8/ 5.20poles 0.2-0.6.... Of course these are all relative to the athlete. Just trying to help though.

Thinking about it a little more, I agree on the pole length affecting the jump in flex... once one is on a specific length, it can be easy to forget thinking about what other lengths feel like..