Hi Ricardo!

Nice to hear from you :) Good advice. You're so right. I was
trying to finish a set of booms too fast and I should have stopped for
a break. Sorry to hear about your back. Hope you recover quickly.
Maybe I'll see you at the WBC.

Cheers!

John V.


--- In Boomerang_Talk@yahoogroups.com, Ricardo Marx <listas@...> wrote:
>
> Hi friends,
>
> I back my yahoogrups confiuration to individual e-mail to read better
> and here I am! ;)
>
> For me is very dificult work with gloves, I lost the sensibility of my
> hands and (IMHO) is much more "possible" lose some fingers with it
> that withought. I prefer work slowly and safe, take my time to rest
> (if I made 100 boomerangs with the router, I stop 20 or 30 minutes,
> drink cofe, stretch my back, fingers, hands, neck and arms). The
> secret is use guides ever and never trust in the lucky, do everything
> with the safe equipment (one or 1000 boomerangs), because the problems
> happen when we think "it's just one boomerang, very fast"...
>
> Sorry for my english, I wake up right now, wash my clothes and get a
> cold day of 5C in a warm tropical country :P... I hate cold days, hate
> wake up 6am ;)
>
> I'm going this year to the Smith Park (Chet's tournment), in Ohio and
> after it to the WBC in Seattle! Going to the GYM every day, doing
> exercises, boxing and loose 4 kilos in one week!!! Now I have just 3
> months to training my throws and fix my back (hernia)... it's a hard
> fight!
>
> Miss all friends and hope that I can see all there!
>
> PS: My girlfriend will give me some english lessons too, so I will be
> "less indian speach" in 3 months ;)
>
> MRH,
>
> Ricardo Marx - BUME.com.br
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>
>
>
>
> Em 03/05/2008, ąs 07:14, Dave Hendricks escreveu:
>
> >
> > >Have you considered work gloves? If not, I'm curious as to >why
> > not. I
> > >wear a filter mask, eye protection, AND work gloves.
> >
> > Note: this is not a recommendation and not a result of any
> > scientific testing. The following is my personal preference and can
> > be ignored if needed. You asked, I answered.
> >
> > I do not wear traditional work gloves in my shop. I don't think I
> > have ever found a pair that fit well enough to allow me to work on
> > boomerangs without them getting in the way and actually becoming a
> > hazzard instead of protection. I think they have their place, but I
> > would not use them in the shop sanding, cutting or with the router.
> > It's not that I don't own work gloves. I have 5 or 6 pairs including
> > some nice leather ones. I use them for other work, just not in the
> > shop.
> >
> > I used to wear latex gloves, mostly to protect my hands from getting
> > dry and chapped from the sawdust. About two years ago my dntist gave
> > me a pair of nitrile ones (the blue ones?) and I really like them. I
> > have been using them since.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Dave Hendricks
> >
> >
> >
>