After the poles were all assembled, we taped up the shafts and turned on the torch to add a custom touch – charred stripes. Finally, the last step was to laser engrave the shafts with Soul Poles ...

Buy Now (Courtesy Grass Sticks) Grass Sticks Original Custom ($89) After burning through aluminum poles season after season, we invested in a pair of Grass Sticks.

Sensors in the poles measure the transmission of energy while the athlete pushes off. The results are fed directly into a simulation program which then creates a bio-mechanical model.