I use wooden Finnish hiking poles my friend makes. Also known as wooden Nordic hiking poles. The problem I find with the performed grip handles is you can't adjust where the grip is. My poles have no handles, you grip it where you want, it has a large area with grip tape on it so you can adjust your grip roughly a foot and a high higher or lower. When you are going uphill for instance your grip is in a different place then going down hill. Or you have to put your arms HIGH up when going up hill vs keeping your arms parallel(which I find more comfortable) because you have an adjustable grip area. They look like this:
https://scricfinia.wordpress.com/202...olo-off-trail/
With poles with grips I find they are great for relatively flat areas up steep up or down hill not so useful vs a pole with an adjustable grip area.
Either style you go for I highly recommend poles of some sort.