With these types of waist clips, you need to tighten this screw (circled in pic below) if it’s currently too loose. They tend to be at varying degrees of tightness out of the box. Yours being pretty loose is actually a good thing, so that you can position the clip on the flexible pole at whatever height you’d like first; then, once you have it at about the height you want, you’re supposed to tighten the screw so that it will stay in that position. Does that make sense?
Sometimes they’re too tight out do the box though (like mine was) and collectors really wreck the rubber coating b/c they just force it onto the post.
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