Dragging isn’t about pole length. When your arm swings foreword, use your little finger and ring finger to tilt the bottom end of your pole up just a centimetre or so off the ground. Listen to the sound they make you want to hear a solid thud type of noise each time not a dragging/scraping along the ground noise. Hope this helps! Don’t be tempted to bend your elbows to lift the boot tips. We never lift our arms when Nordic walking, we always swing!
Hi Barb! Just got my first pair of nordic poles. My problem is the dragging...do you mean i need to shorten my poles?
Dragging isn’t about pole length. When your arm swings foreword, use your little finger and ring finger to tilt the bottom end of your pole up just a centimetre or so off the ground. Listen to the sound they make you want to hear a solid thud type of noise each time not a dragging/scraping along the ground noise. Hope this helps! Don’t be tempted to bend your elbows to lift the boot tips. We never lift our arms when Nordic walking, we always swing!