Dear Jim,
Thank you for the clarification, and luckily I always do make sure no one is to my right when the string snags, but in fact I use a 360 rule. I always plan for the worst. I always imagine "what if I really mess up and people are around me", and make it so no one will get hurt. I make sure to keep some distance, but I feel the danger zone approach is much more appropriate. Thank you!
Kirk, I am glad that you have worked out all the problems in your strings. I would reccomend that the next time you have such a problem, to not even worry about fixing your string, to just try and see if a new string is the problem. You can train yourself to make mistakes otherwise and that is not fun! Just a suggestion. I usually make sure to have xyz number of strings whenever I can so I can just ditch a string.
But also.. Lol.. My best string so far is the string that came with the lingdong. LOL.
Thank you,
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