Poles Free sleeves
The Poles Free sleeves are trail tested on foot and bike to provide an innovative and lightweight solution for you to conquer your mountains. The sleeves provide a unique function of instantly strapping your hiking poles to your forearm to free your hands, maintaining range of motion of your arms, and delivering sun protection, compression, and sweat-wicking properties.
Where to go RUCKN
The RUCKN Poles Free sleeves have been tested and developed over thousands of miles of the most interesting and challenging terrain. See a few of the mountains and other obstacles conquered with the RUCKN Poles Free sleeves.
Advantages of RUCKN
RUCKN with the Poles Free sleeves allows you the freedom to rapidly transition between empty hands or hiking poles, as the terrain and circumstances require, while simultaneously providing sun protection, compression, and sweat-wicking properties to keep you comfortable while you conquer your mountains.
How to go RUCKN
The RUCKN Poles Free sleeves are designed for simple use, comfortable wear, and easy care. Review the following videos and information to put the Poles Free sleeves to their best use when you go RUCKN. See link for Use and Care Instructions and Size Guide.
Find your mountain
Will this ever be me?
People have their own mountains to overcome, whether it is the park down the road, the peak you saw in pictures, or the monument no car can reach. From young teens to elite athletes to full-time workers to retirees, the rustic trails and hidden pathways beckon to us all. Find your path into the wilderness, and rely upon RUCKN Poles Free sleeves to give you the hands-free functionality, sun protection, compression, and sweat-wicking properties to reach those intoxicating summits, breathtaking viewpoints, and peaceful retreats.
Innovative and lightweight
Why use Poles Free?
✓ Hiking poles activate the upper body and promote balance and reduce pressure on lower body joints.*
✓ Poles Free allows you to instantly strap up your poles and instantly return the poles to use depending on the situation.
✓ Poles Free allows you to climb with free hands.
✓ Poles Free allows you to take a call, check your map, snap a picture, or hold the umbrella with a free hand.
✓ Poles Free allows you to strap up your poles without removing your hiking pack or when you are not traveling with a hiking pack.
✓ Poles Free allows you to strap up your poles when you reach paved surfaces.
✓ Poles Free allows you to quickly strap up your poles for intermittent areas of flat ground.
✓ Poles Free allows you to instantly strap up your poles when you feel like running.
✓ Poles Free allows you to walk and eat with free hands.
✓ Poles Free allows you to strap up your poles when you are riding your mountain bike to the next trail head.
✓ Poles Free provides protection from the sun, wind, and irritants found along the trail while providing compression for circulation and sweat-wicking properties to assist in the heat or the cold.
✓ Poles Free is designed to allow your arms freedom of movement when the poles are strapped up.
Testimonials
Poles Free Users Said
How will you use Poles Free?
“Super comfortable. . . 10/10.”
Super comfortable, breathable fabric! Easy to use and very functional. 10/10 recommend.
— Aubrey
“Durable . . . in rough conditions.”
The sleeve is durable and comfortable. It remained in good condition and did not cause irritation even after hiking in rough conditions over twenty mountains.
— Isaac
“I don’t hike without them.”
The sleeves have provided me with protection and versatility over so much terrain and through so many conditions that I don’t hike without them.
— Daniel
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
To avoid contact with a fellow traveler, fully reduce the length of your poles and use rubber caps for your pole tips when the poles are strapped up.
The Poles Free sleeves and RUCKN equipment are not orthotic devices and are not meant to protect a person in the event of a fall.
The Poles Free sleeves should be washed in cold water and air dried. The sleeves are made of a combination of polyester and spandex for compression and sweat-wicking attributes.
The Poles Free straps have a hook and loop system of connection. The hook and loop should always remain connected when the poles are not being actively strapped or unstrapped so that the hook does not degrade the sleeve material.
*Hawke AL, Jensen RL. Are Trekking Poles Helping or Hindering Your Hiking Experience? A Review. Wilderness Environ Med. 2020 Dec;31(4):482-488. doi: 10.1016/j.wem.2020.06.009. Epub 2020 Sep 24. PMID: 32980249.
The Poles Free sleeves were designed and developed with the assistance of workers and companies and testing in the U.S. and overseas.
*Bohne M, Abendroth-Smith J. Effects of hiking downhill using trekking poles while carrying external loads. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2007 Jan;39(1):177-83. doi: 10.1249/01.mss.0000240328.31276.fc. PMID: 17218900.
*Schwameder H, Roithner R, Müller E, Niessen W, Raschner C. Knee joint forces during downhill walking with hiking poles. J Sports Sci. 1999 Dec;17(12):969-78. doi: 10.1080/026404199365362. PMID: 10622357.
*Saller M, Nagengast N, Frisch M, Fuss FK. A Review of Biomechanical and Physiological Effects of Using Poles in Sports. Bioengineering (Basel). 2023 Apr 21;10(4):497. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering10040497. PMID: 37106684; PMCID: PMC10135831.
Need more information?
Review the links from this page for Use and Care Instructions, Size Guide, as well as how to go, where to go, and the advantages of going RUCKN Poles Free.