Flower Stick Care & Cleaning Instructions

Protecting Your Flower Stick from Damage

Wooden poles and handsticks are worth paying more attention to. One wrong move (kick, sit on, step on) and it can break. Fibreglass is much better, practically indestructible. Kick your flower stick as hard as you can, but a car can drive over it; it won’t hurt. But don’t push it to its limits deliberately, because you can be so strong… Aluminium sticks are also very durable. They will hardly break They won’t break, but if you step on them or kick them, they can bend.

How to Protect Your Stick’s Stickiness

It’s worth playing outside on grass, concrete, or floorboard. Other types of soil (earth, sand, mud, cat litter, …) can damage both its beauty and its grip, and therefore its usability. However, our flowersticks are all waterproof! However, while they are wet (e.g. in the rain or after cleaning), they are difficult to play with (slippery). The (worn) stick in the picture spent a lot of time on the muddy ground during a rainy festival. Many people have stepped on itL It barely has any sticky coating left. You can hardly play with it anymore.

How to Clean the Stick

Neither water nor soap will hurt your flower stick, and you need them, because a dirty stick has a bad grip, is harder to do tricks with and wears out faster. Itis also slippery when dirty, making it harder to do the tricks. Occasionally, you may want to wipe it gently with a damp, soapy sponge or cloth. It’s very durable, but don’t rub it with the rough side of a sponge or a dirty cloth.

Cleaning your stick regurarly is very-very important!

How to Care for and Protect the Tassels

Rubber-fringed flowersticks: They are very undemanding and do not require extra care. You can clean them with running water, soapy water or a sponge. The tassels of poor quality rubber can break off (see picture). In our case, you don’t have to worry about our tassels in this, but if you get them from elsewhere, you might. Of course, even our good quality material will pick up a “crinckly” shape after a while. So, if you can, don’t leave it stuffed in a bag for too long, for example, as you’ll not only damage its beauty.

It’s much harder to find good quality flower sticks with faux leather tassels (we’ll take care of that for you). It is a much more delicate and demanding material than rubber. It gets “cracked” and creases easier. It only takes a short time for it to take on an abnormal shape (which is why we use rubber bands on the tassels). Be careful when cleaning faux leather tassels! They like a little lukewarm, soapy water with a sponge (and don’t rub hard!)

Loss

It’s a big problem if you loose any part of the kit, as the lack of one of the handsticks is enough to end the game. Make sure you have your dedicated place for the set, and when you’re not playing, hold the kit together with the Velcro fastener we gave you. That way you’ve already taken the sting out of trouble.

If you’d like to read more about flower sticks, you might want to continue with:

How to choose your flower stick?

What is a good flower stick like?

Flower stick vs Devil stick?

Why choose our flower stick?

(in the last one you will also find an interesting Comparison Test of nearly 20 flowersticks)