Question about Progressing from ironmind pads to leathers?

[Briso]

Hi guys

I've always bent in single ironmind wraps and done all my certification bends in those. 

Im curious as to how people progress onto the leather wraps. I've tried them a few times and they just feel so inflexible and weird to me at present. 

Is there anything I should be doing to make these wraps softer and easier to manage? 

[KRC]

YMMV but with the bigger wraps it took a lot for them to be usable, but once they were, the results were great.  

The BBW's are the hardest to break in, I washed them about 8 times I think, wash and dry cycles.  I never washed my leathers (and would argue against that), but just kept bending in them.  

If I could break in the leathers again, I would bend them on bars that are not PR attempts, but that are "hard" but are used with bars you know you will bend.  For me a lot of plateaus or sticking points are mentally associated with failure, so if you want to use leather wraps in the future, don't fail with them until they're broken in.  

I would guess for you that a red nail is a good bar to use for this - you can put a decent amount of force into it so that the leathers start to become less slippery and rigid, but there's no risk of not bending it.  

Good luck!