whips

[Marilyn]

the 'wrist loop' on whips should never actually be placed around a wrist should it?

 

[Mid]

No...

I put it just over my fingers though, makes it a little harder to drop, but doesn't get tangled.

 

[samp]

No cut it off now!

 

[Marilyn]

That's what i was thinking, it just vexes me that so many descriptions call it a wrist loop when it can cause all sorts of injury if put round the wrist

 

[jayvee]

It's never been advised to place it around your wrist. The loop is only good for hanging it up!!

 

[ecrozier]

Not while you are on a horse!! Very easy to break a wrist if you fell off and it went at a funny angle!

 

[Patchwork]

Chop it off chop it off chop it off!

 

[GTs]

This has been said for many years, but I do not understand why. I initially heard they did it incase it got caught on a tree, which to me was unlikely, and now falling and breaking your wrist which sounds even more unlikely.