[CW] Styles of Sending

[David Ring]

Yes, George, i should have noted the author's poor choice of words.

Flex can mean "to bend" as in to flex a joint.
Flex can mean "to contract a muscle(s) or to move by muscular control.

The first word is more traditional as the root word of flex, "flectare"
Latin means to bend.

However, it is clear (but confused!) from reading that he means you should
NOT tighten or move the wrist by "flexing the muscles" there.

He point - and a valid one - is that the muscles in the hand and wrist are
short muscles which can move quickly and accurately but which can tire
easily after use - while the longer muscles in the forearm don't get tired
as quickly.  This is because of both the larger muscle tissue in the muscles
in the forearm and because the lactic acid which is formed by expending
muscular force is more easily gotten rid on if a larger muscle.

Note:  I am not a physician, but I play one on the ham bands where people
just go hysterical when I do because I don't know two blessed things about
medicine.  However, I've succeeded in fooling  people for up to 15 minutes
before they break out in uncontrollable laughter.  Likewise I have convinced
people I'm a "phone" operator, only to have them laugh at me when I start
speaking into my Vibroplex:  "Hello, hello? Testing 1, 2, 3..."

Life is so unfair - they never told me a microphone was needed.

73

DR

David Ring, N1EA
=30=

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:06 AM, George Allgood <Myp4k69 at bellsouth.net>wrote:

>  *One of the most critical things at this point is that the wrist should
> never flex*. It should be used as part of a lever. The reason for this is
> that the muscles in the wrist are very short and usually not as strong as
> the muscles in the upper and lower arm as well as the shoulder. These are
> the muscles that must be trained to do the work
>
>
> David,
>
> If you don't use the wrist as a pivot point....you hold it stiff, then to
> close the key you must use your entire forearm
> and elbow to form the letters.    Seems un-natural to me.   Also, it would
> be difficult to achieve much speed that way.
> Thanks for the information and the article.    I've never seen that before.
>
> 73
> Geo.
> W4GFA
>
>
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