Alright alright I know it’s a bit of a stretch but hear me out. Today I had a bit of an epiphany, much like many golfers do when they’re hitting balls at the range. I was touching up one of my razors and test shaving my arm hair when it hit me.....I’ve had the wrong lie angle and grip pressure!

Much like a golfer who doesn’t get properly fit for clubs, I’ve been using a way too flat shave angle and it’s caused me to increase my grip pressure to compensate for the lack of cutting ability. Similar to making golf swing changes, you can overdue things and over the past 200+ shaves I’ve slowly but surely brought the spine closer and closer to my face thinking that was what the “proper” technique that the pros use. (Think; mimicking a pga tour player’s swing by reading Golf Digest) Progressively my shaves have been getting worse and worse and I’ve been chalking it up to blade degradation. (Must be the clubs!) Needless to say it’s been frustrating.

Today I made the conscious decision to increase the shave angle a bit but drastically reduce grip pressure and BOOM I got a perfect bbs shave with zero irritation. It was incredible! Like flushing a 3 wood off the deck into a par 5 that no one reaches in two. It was majestic.

The bottom line is that, just like in golf, you need to check your angles and technique because things can progressively get out of whack. I only hope that, unlike the golf swing, I’ll be able to wake up tomorrow and find my SR swing again and again.

Cheers gents!