Micromatic Monday

[Old Sarge]

Sometimes when I get in an area that I'm really focused on, I find myself choking up and sliding my grip up towards the head. I guess it's like choking up on a baseball bat. Hope to get rid of that nervous tick at some point.

I occasionally do that as well, not recently I don't think. Maybe certain razors with less weight or bite. I normally use two fingers and the thumb somewhere around the balance point of the razor.

TobyC, you just made me think of something that should have been obvious to me. When I was going to college, I coached three sports at the local high school. One of them was girls volleyball. We really worked on technique in regards to the various skills by focusing on doing it the same way again and again...repetition. I hadn't given much though to how I grip the razor, but now that I think about it I find that I'm kind of all over the place. I see that what you said about the balance point of the razor as a focal point regardless of which razor you are using and wether it is short or long handled. I need to give this some more thought, but maybe I need to focus on how I grip the razor a little bit more. Thanks!