One LAST Question before I order the BB

[gRaFFiX]

If you don't like the footbox on whatever side you get, try sleeping with your head at that end (another bonus to the blackbird!). I actually like it better that way. I don't actually put my head in the footbox, I just sleep "backwards"

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the footbox though? No offense.

[Lorethian]

What does sleeping backwards get you? I think it puts the shelf in a bad position to use if I understand it right but what advantage does it get you.

[animalcontrol]

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the footbox though? No offense.

Shug has a video clip of this somewhere as he prefers it that way.
It seems that the footbox can still be used for storage...

[Lorethian]

I have watched Shug's video but he doesn't flip and put his head where the box is, he just doesn't use the box. What is the advantage to flipping?

[gRaFFiX]

That's the way I understood the term "flipping backwards" to mean you slept with your head on the footbox end. And with all respect to Shug, I still think it defeats the purpose of the footbox.

57 Hail Mary's for disagreeing with Shug!

[deadeye]

Shug sleeps "cockeyed" if you will, while I sometimes sleep backwards or upside down. Does either way defeat the purpose of the footbox? Who cares, it's my footbox and I'll use it as I please! I'll guarantee you that the folks that invented Spectra or a zillion other products didn't figure they'd wind up in backpackers' hammocks! I can put stuff in the footbox, and I can still put stuff in the shelf. It's just another option. No offense taken.

[Shug]

That's the way I understood the term "flipping backwards" to mean you slept with your head on the footbox end. And with all respect to Shug, I still think it defeats the purpose of the footbox.
57 Hail Mary's for disagreeing with Shug!

Hee-Hee 57??? I can say a Hail Mary in about 5 seconds .... speed penance!

Shug sleeps "cockeyed" if you will, while I sometimes sleep backwards or upside down. Does either way defeat the purpose of the footbox? Who cares, it's my footbox and I'll use it as I please! I'll guarantee you that the folks that invented Spectra or a zillion other products didn't figure they'd wind up in backpackers' hammocks! I can put stuff in the footbox, and I can still put stuff in the shelf. It's just another option. No offense taken.

Now sometimes I do actually use the footbox ... I can get my head a little venting with it to the left but I tend to feel "mo natural" with me noggin' to the right. All good options.