Breaking sections is a risk with using any poles with a thin wall, you cannot have strength and lightness. problem is you need to build up experience but how do you do that if you dont have any experience.
You can't have strength and lightness? Jeff, not sure if I follow, I value your experience highly but my superlite is indeed super light and is pretty darn strong if you ask me. Also the vids Alex had some time ago showing off the strenth (standing on it, sitting on it between benches, ramming it against tree) showed that lightness and strength can go together. Maybe fishing poles can break easily, but they haven't exactly been designed for our use.
Hmm... the fishing poles used to be thicker than they are now and cheaper but not stiffer so the fishing guys demanded stiffer poles and the manuf responded, the moderns are no good to us but the older ones where adequate. In the states there is a pole called Simpole, hes a proud USA guy and he produced a c/f pole you could drive a car over ( we did ! at a trade show in Blackpool
)but we found that pole too heavy for practical use, its now gone thro various changes and is more suitable for our use.(The USA market is totally diff to ours and has diff requirements.) But no challenge to the Gardiners.. yet. But they do break them over there as well.
Its not on topic but maybe if you want the height and stiffness you have to have thinner wall sections, for lower heights you dont and the Harris pole for its price is probably unbeatable, ...but that is telescopic alu. Its the risk between lightness, stiffness, strength and £££
Just trying to talk about the constant development that our tools are going through, can the design be improved, can/how can we reach 100ft ? but would you want to ?