Patent ID: 8579329

Claim:
A pole grip for attaching to a pole having a pole axis, of the type comprising walking sticks, trekking poles, downhill ski poles, cross-country ski poles and Nordic walking poles, and for releasably coupling to a hand retaining device via a loop structure on said hand retaining device, comprising: a grip body having a hand side, a top region and a bottom region, with a hole extending from the bottom region along the pole axis and being sized to receive a pole end, a hooking device for fastening a hand-retaining device, the hooking device being disposed in the top region of the grip body on the hand side, the hooking device comprising a retaining peg having a first end secured to the grip body and a second free end, and being oriented essentially parallel to the pole axis but being offset on the hand side away from the grip body with the second free end forming an introduction slot with the grip body, wherein a cross section of the peg is sized to receive the loop structure of a hand retaining device, wherein the grip body is provided, from the hand side or from above, with a recess which accommodates a displaceable, rotatable or displaceable and rotatable latching-in element, disposed adjacent the hooking device, wherein the displaceable, rotatable or displaceable and rotatable latching-in element is provided in the form of an arresting block which as a whole is, or latching-in means arranged therein are, guided so as to be displaceable and braced against the hooking device, which is arranged in front of the recess, via a spring such that the loop structure of the hand retaining device, when pushed onto the free end of the hooking device is secured onto the hooking device with a self-latching action provided by said arresting block or by latching-in means arranged therein, and wherein the latching-in element is coupled to at least one activating button which can be displaced from the outside, counter to a restoring force, to release the self-latching mechanism.