Feb 10 2005, 07:52 PM
Hi all! Appreciate your responses to this inquiry. As always, your candor and insight into the inner workings of the game we love are very precious to me and although we haven�t yet met or had the wonderful opportunity to toss the pizza together, I�m sending out a big psychic embrace to you all!
As we near spring time, which is the most luscious of all the seasons, I was moved to begin practicing my sidearm throwing motion. While I still have the lean physique of a synchronized swimmer or an ice dancer, I was troubled by what I felt was the lack of oomph in my sidearm tosses: To that end, I determined that the body hair on my right side was causing drag and impeding my throws. Now while I appreciate drag as much as the next guy, I subsequently shaved the hair along the right side of my body as I am a right hander. (Rather I should say I had a waxing professional do the honors because as we all know, it is difficult if not impossible to use an electric shaver on such a project without using the hand you favor�)
I believe the smooth skin on the right side of my body has reduced drag and added as much as 15-20 extra feet to my throws. Now here�s an interesting aside to that observation: I noted that when I use a heavier brand of emollient on that side, my increased distance basically shrivels, but when I switch back to something lighter and frothier I can recapture the extra distance.
As some of the dear readers know, I suffer from a stupendous case of feces hypersensitivity � as such I wear a surgical glove on each hand while playing. I know that some will immediately call out my ignorance for having reduced drag by shaving my body hair but continuing to wear my glove(s): I too was troubled by this seeming bit of irony and decided that the way to improve the drag coefficient of the upper portion of the glove was to apply a length of duct tape around my wrists.
While there are some out there who might scoff at the fashion implications of the duct tape I can only say that if it bothers you that much I would urge the use of strategically placed wrist sweatbands to cover the tape. I tried this but found that the body lotions I use mixed in with the sweatband and when I used the sweatband to dab perspiration from my forehead and face I subsequently caused my face to break out from the body lotion. I wanted to give myself 10 lashes for being so forgetful about my acne problem which is exacerbated by my having to shave the entirety of my face every third day due to a lifelong struggle with hirsutism.
Anyway: How about it group? Have any of the dear readers noted any increase in length after removal of body hair? Now I also don�t want to discard the notion that this could just be an optical illusion and that I just seem longer after removing the body hair? I�ve not had the opportunity to measure myself officially and my roommate has usually done the honors but he is out of town this week attending a renaissance fair. I had hoped to go but was forced to cancel because of an ongoing problem with stomach cramping�
As we near spring time, which is the most luscious of all the seasons, I was moved to begin practicing my sidearm throwing motion. While I still have the lean physique of a synchronized swimmer or an ice dancer, I was troubled by what I felt was the lack of oomph in my sidearm tosses: To that end, I determined that the body hair on my right side was causing drag and impeding my throws. Now while I appreciate drag as much as the next guy, I subsequently shaved the hair along the right side of my body as I am a right hander. (Rather I should say I had a waxing professional do the honors because as we all know, it is difficult if not impossible to use an electric shaver on such a project without using the hand you favor�)
I believe the smooth skin on the right side of my body has reduced drag and added as much as 15-20 extra feet to my throws. Now here�s an interesting aside to that observation: I noted that when I use a heavier brand of emollient on that side, my increased distance basically shrivels, but when I switch back to something lighter and frothier I can recapture the extra distance.
As some of the dear readers know, I suffer from a stupendous case of feces hypersensitivity � as such I wear a surgical glove on each hand while playing. I know that some will immediately call out my ignorance for having reduced drag by shaving my body hair but continuing to wear my glove(s): I too was troubled by this seeming bit of irony and decided that the way to improve the drag coefficient of the upper portion of the glove was to apply a length of duct tape around my wrists.
While there are some out there who might scoff at the fashion implications of the duct tape I can only say that if it bothers you that much I would urge the use of strategically placed wrist sweatbands to cover the tape. I tried this but found that the body lotions I use mixed in with the sweatband and when I used the sweatband to dab perspiration from my forehead and face I subsequently caused my face to break out from the body lotion. I wanted to give myself 10 lashes for being so forgetful about my acne problem which is exacerbated by my having to shave the entirety of my face every third day due to a lifelong struggle with hirsutism.
Anyway: How about it group? Have any of the dear readers noted any increase in length after removal of body hair? Now I also don�t want to discard the notion that this could just be an optical illusion and that I just seem longer after removing the body hair? I�ve not had the opportunity to measure myself officially and my roommate has usually done the honors but he is out of town this week attending a renaissance fair. I had hoped to go but was forced to cancel because of an ongoing problem with stomach cramping�