Many people have such difficulty carrying their umbrella around the beach when you are looking for a good spot. Beach umbrellas, when closed, are too long and this makes it difficult for little people to carry. Once a person finally transports their umbrella to their spot, they are plagued with the task of stabilizing the umbrella into the sand. Those of us not blessed with great upper body strength have trouble striking it into the sand.
Most people try to dig a hole in the sand, place the pole inside, and then bury it.
The problem with this is that most likely the hole is not dug deep enough so that when you pack the sand back into the hole the sand will not be packed tight enough to hold up the umbrella. Safety hazards can arise when a beach umbrella is not properly secured in the sand. There are known incidences where a beach umbrella is uprooted in strong winds and tumbles and flies across the beach. In some unfortunate incidences the umbrella pole, during its flight, has impaled people.