Yeah, if I get to do a lot of sailing, I don't need gloves. Never used them before this year anyway. I just wanted to sail a lot on Maui, and I didn't want to trash my hands on the first day. I found em easy to use, so I still utilise them when it suits me. Again, just another tool in the box. Sandy booms can be pretty abrasive.
I like my soft hands too. I touch people a lot as part of my job, so big gnarly calluses are not too welcome. I just don't get enough wind to get em anyway.
The vid was a humorous response for you, as well as being more evidence of my Loaded slut-dom.
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barn said...KenHo said...
more evidence of devolution
Cool vid, maybe evidence of speciation?.. But if your sailing technique removes the same amount of skin as dragging your hands down a mountain, then maybe you do need gloves..
But, being a member of the Primates we have the ability/responsibility to do a moderate amount of swinging from a nicely padded boom.. And yes I know it was a long time since we descended from trees but we are still apes with hands perfectly evolved for the job. And its not like humans have never done any manual labor since we walked onto the Savanna ... I think every peasant, builder of pyramids, fighter of Persians, Hunter of Mammoths, just turned over in their graves at the suggestion we aren't cut out for some hard work!
If your hands rip apart after one session, then maybe you should use them more?
sboardcrazy, I know lots of girls who sail 300 days a year who don't use gloves, there is a case for girls not to wear gloves even more because girls normally have smaller hands, being even more disadvantaged by wearing gloves.. And if you must wear gloves then a skinny grip boom is also on the shopping list?
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> 9 months ago, 13 Dec 2010
