well, i do think that there might have been other factors than just palm rolling in people's dreads breaking off. when i palm roll, mine are pretty solid. but then again, i don't see my dreads as brittle, & they are also pretty young. i think the only way one of my dreads would fall out is if i dread my roots too hard, because it'll rip the roots. i made a video on my page that shows what i do when i maintenance my dreads if you want to check it out.
Puppy said:Think I may try something like that, I have one that is ultra lumpy and now that they are starting to get long enough to palm roll think I will test it on that one. Granted I have personally seen people that have broken dreads off while palm rolling and as is I am pretty skeptical about it doing much of anything. So I doubt I will be doing it much, maybe once or twice a week. About as often as I think Jess mentioned she does since I think she has a pretty healthy view on maintenance.
soaringeagle said:i was gonna recomend this to jess but i'll recomend it to you since ya probly are more experimental anyway
take 2 dreads underneath kinda putta site and mark em 1 with a few wraps of red string 1 with green
only roll the 1 week after week after week.. and see if u even notice a diference
alotta ppl say that palm rolling is totaly useless and does nothing good (same with root rubbing) and only do dammage
im not sure thats true really without experimentation
but id think it would be interesting to take 2 side by side of nearly same thickness and subject 1 to alotta rolling and 1 to none and document thee differences over say 3 months
(weekly updates)
would u wanna try?
updated by @spider-feet: 07/23/15 02:56:27AM