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Anyone heard of “erectapole Australia”? they don’t look safe
I was browsing the gumtree ads here in Australia and came across this listing and OMG! this looks soooooo unsafe 🙁
Apparently it’s stainless steel and has a spinning option, they make them to order to fit the right size between floor and ceiling.
But look at how tiny the surface area is on the top and bottom… my crutches have feet around that size.
IDK, I hate to rag on a company that I haven’t had experience with but this just seems to be inherently unsafe.
Has anyone here tried these? And what did you think?
Em x
(ps this is their website; http://erectapole-australia.webs.com/ )
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I don’t think you’re ragging on anyone, I think we need to call out questionable stuff when we see it. We don’t need shady companies endangering pole fitness newbies and giving us a bad name.
And yeah, that looks horribly unsafe to me – the width of the base and the top, like you mentioned, but also – do you see how the pole narrows at the top and bottom, right before the base? That seriously looks about ready to snap O_O And they claim to have a spin option as well? Yikes! It would make me feel a bit better if they at least screwed it in, but the website says they don’t use screws. I can’t imagine how this could be safe at all.
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Yep, they say it’s totally removable like the x-poles are, but there’s nowhere near the surface area of the dome or even the microbase that my x-pole has for stability.
And I mean it when I say that base is around the size of the bottom of my crutches (I really should pack my crutches away now that I think about it haha)…I just don’t see how that could possibly hold up under the sorts of force that spinning and inverts put on a pole, and it is advertised as being both static and spinning.
It’s also being sold for $295 AUD so it’s not cheap either! And yep, the way it narrows so much is really concerning… I would hate to see someone buy this and try to do any moves that include spinning or force of any kind.
On the video they link to the girl dancing is pretty good, and she does some good moves too, but the pole just seems inherently unsafe imho. -
Gosh I remember discussing this pole in 2009 when the video came out. I doubt they got much further, or sold that many since then!
There’s another video that I can only describe as LUCKY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToNEyFIupTU
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