I fully agree that poles do need to be used in a certain way to get the best out of them.
It is my experience that most pole users I come across don't get the full benefit in fact in some cases they just more or less drag their poles along.
Anyway, the good news here is that Pete's page is alive in a new form, here :
http://medphys.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/gear/poles/poles1.html