the number of people who don't know this pains me.

Yup, it used to be a kind of a "secret" to sort out local stagehands. So you know which ones do the heavy lifting and which ones pack the cases.

But no one objects if everyone know this "secret", much better if everyone knows,. If you have ever sorted out +500m of cable after they have been in tour for two weeks, all cables done with "wrap around elbow" method, then transported in -20C and then warmed up again multiple times, you open the case in the warehouse.. Yeah, then it's hot bath for the whole lot, straighten them all up hoping that the shielding has staid intact while keeping the connectors dry... That just sucks, it can take days.

And what's worst, if the cable is twisted enough, the shielding will twist too, and you end up with noisy cables or ones that go "BANG" (the bang comes when a cable is hitting some object, like a floor when it's being used and the wires inside are loose, they will act like a signal source, essentially the whole cable is then just one long contact microphone. In fact, if you put one of those in front of a speaker in a loop, you can hear the music coming thru......)

This dude is the friggin' Bob Ross of roadies!

That tone and countenance reminded me so much of him!

Dude makes some happy little cables for sure.

I wished all cables would behave like this. Fact of the matter is that some are just too stiff or messed up for this to work.

Finally learned this about 6 months ago. ...I'm 33. Better late than never.

Upvote for the good presentation and in the hopes of encouraging others to figure it out in a more timely manner than I did.