The swiss gear poles perform wayyyyy different than the gossamer gear poles. It’s like night and day. So the cheap pole will give you a feel for a heavy pole.

I will apologize in advance if you can’t find any wally world poles that are not broken. My youngest daughter tested them all and couldn’t get them back together. I tried fixing them with my leatherman and I think I made it worse. I think the ceiling-camera man got some entertainment. The key is don’t fully extend them! And tighten them hard or they will collapse on you. Of course, once tightened, you won’t be able to un-tighten. However, I got one un-tightened by putting on some rubber dish gloves. Ummm… I think I’m going to stop my story here…

-Barry