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Stretch

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Stretch Super Member

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After getting back into everyday practice, I have some pretty good callouses going on. Two of them are getting big enough to be a pain, base of left pinkie and last joint of right ••••-you finger. What do you guys do with these when they get annoying?

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kpaulhus Great Member

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both sounds rather painful. I think the best removal method would be to soak your hands in water then file the callous gently. Dont take off too much.

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  Stretch said:
After getting back into everyday practice, I have some pretty good callouses going on. Two of them are getting big enough to be a pain, base of left pinkie and last joint of right ••••-you finger. What do you guys do with these when they get annoying?

Absentmindedly tear at with other hand, apply bandage, repeat.

PS. File - wet or dry.

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rebby Great Member

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Preemptive attack for me. When I start to feel one develop, I start applying my wife's Nivia cream. Works great!

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AceDunk Established Member

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I have plenty of callouses but have never found them to be annoying. Wouldn't ever think to file them off...

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I chew them off.

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Stretch Super Member

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I have plenty of callouses but have never found them to be annoying. Wouldn't ever think to file them off...

What I find annoying is when the callous forms and then subsequent pressure kind of squishes it into a ridge or peak that either hurts or just plain gets in the way of your grip. My wife says I have the hands of freaking ditch digger nowadays, but I just tell her maybe she could stand to wrap her own soft fingers around a shaft a bit more often. Nudge nudge wink wink, say no more.

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Leave them on?

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Leave them on?

That's what I do.

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I cut them off with fingernail clippers when they get too big. The key is not to take off too much.

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scissors.

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scissors.

Right - try the little swiss army knife scissors!

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I leave them be. Weight lifting, golf, tennis and hockey haven't given my any that became so big to be that big of a bother. Couldn't imagine cutting or filing at them...


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  Stretch said:
What I find annoying is when the callous forms and then subsequent pressure kind of squishes it into a ridge or peak that either hurts or just plain gets in the way of your grip. My wife says I have the hands of freaking ditch digger nowadays, but I just tell her maybe she could stand to wrap her own soft fingers around a shaft a bit more often. Nudge nudge wink wink, say no more.

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PS: I just leave them alone for the most part. I use a nail to scratch of the top layer of dead skin, but that is more of nervous habit then any maintainence routine
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  he4dhuntr said:
I leave them be. Weight lifting, golf, tennis and hockey haven't given my any that became so big to be that big of a bother. Couldn't imagine cutting or filing at them...

You don't really feel it when you cut them. The skin on a callus is pretty much dead skin anyway. You can cut a good chunk off and you won't feel it. It's kind of like cutting your finger nails.

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