Originally Posted By: steve white
Do I recall Brister describing the flip by the flexation of a cane pole...that if you held the stout end and attempted to quickly flip the far end upward, the middle of the pole would first rise while the far end would arch downward before rising? It is easy to see in a pole, but does a barrel do it to a much lesser extent?


Brister might have said that somewhere, but he didn't use that analogy in the referenced passage from his book.