Hello... folks call me Shug. I thought I'd might do a little video on side sleeping
in a hammock... that's right... side sleeping I mean sleeping on your side in the
hammock.... what a thought. People do it. I don't. Other people do. So here's a video
about a guy who does not do something that's going to show people that do do
something...... kind of how to do it.
I never go fully fetal because I'm afraid to go fully fetal. But I might turn to the side just a little while for
a little reprieve and it usually ends up being that five or six in the morning time
but I found that side sleeping in the hammock is kind of a broad subject
there's a lot of range to it. A lot of different opinions...... uhhm what works for one
guy or gal is not going to work for that other gal or guy. And uumm I can say right off
the top that you're just gonna have to get hammocks and try. It comes down a lot
it seems to the fabric of the hammock. So a single-layer hammock often seems to
have a little bit more give... because just think about it when you have a double
layer it means two pieces of fabric together so you can slip a pad between
or you know people use it for various reasons... for bugs that don't bite them if
they live down in warmer weather and they don't want to use an under quilt or
a pad.... uhm some people like it for a little more support. So your fabric comes into it.
The preference for some is a fairly firm fabric.
A lot of people like that soft silky stretchy slumber. It seems to me that it's it's do your knees press
against your under quilt but I've got the JacksRBetter Greylock
4 this is my gray lock for they also make a Greylock three which is like a
20-degree it's a wide partial under quilt by partial I mean it only goes down like
here's my foot down here. Do you face the back of your hammock or outside your
hammock? A lot of people like the bridge hammocks for their side sleeping other
people don't because your knees kind of go against the edge of that fabric that
usually has a oh it has either something like mule tape or something go through
it it's very firm.
You know the length of your hammock times might come into it. The width of your hammock most of my hammocks are
about 60 inches wide 58 inches wide. Some people tend to like the wide hammocks a
lot of companies like Dream hammock Dutchware Gear will offer a wider hammock.
You know more fabric that might help a side sleeper.
Just with that thought I'm thinking well you um side sleepers have a little bit more to deal
with to get your comfort in so... I feel for you I feel for you well us mummy
guys we just lay here oh and don't even get me started on the stomach sleepers NO WAY!
You're gonna have to just try one and see what works for you.
I wish I could give you a definite answer I can't but at least I could just show you a
couple of my hammocks and me laying sideways in 'em.... Boy that sounds like a
fun video ....an exciting video to watch... cause who doesn't like watching a 60
year old man laying around in a sack of cloth.
And now I'm laying here and just a basic... this is a Dutchware Gear simple hammock 1.6 hexon 60 inches wide.
Thats a softer fabric
Feels nice and comfortable.
Laying here sideways... once again my feet are just inside this partial underquilt so I got a lot of a
lot of warmth on those feet right now
Now... the Warbonnet XLC. This is a double layer hammock. I have on the 0º
Wooki underquilt. Now keep in mind that I lay with my head
to the right feet to the left so this under quilt is set up for that. This is a
firm hammock because it's a double layer
Feels nice laying in here in the fetal position.
This is comfortable to me and your face is right out there... my feet are on the under quilt because they're sort
of tucked back that way so this is the way I would side sleep in here.
Now I've slipped on my Hammockgear Incubator
Feet are covered real nice. Got a lot of fabric up that way. Covered well there...
Feel like I'm covered pretty well on each side.
So what we're not proving here or maybe we're just taking a look at it... each hammock is gonna be different...
each fabric is gonna be different... each underquilt is gonna be different.
Not bad...
Now the normal thing is if you use a partial under quilt is to use something I
I use my Thermarest Sit-Pad in the foot box of my top quilt but let me get
sideways here and my feet like right here...... curled up.
There's my feet. I pushed right into it and that's in a pretty deep fetal I
don't know if you side sleeper sleep like that but if I had them out a little
bit I can feel where I go off that under quilt feet cool right now feet warm
right there.
So here's my Warbonnet Ridge Runner bridge style hammock. For this test I have on my 20 degree Hammock Gear Incubator.
Now I got a nice comfortable lay here... the fabric always feels a little more firm in this but let
me go ahead and roll them aside and I'm gonna go to my left side
Now one of the complaints I hear about this is a bridge hammock has a real stiff
edge in it because it's got a webbing material that runs through this cat cut edge
but I'm able to kind of avoid it.... I feel my buttocks touching it back
here so I want to make sure my under quilt is up on that side and my knees
are right over here I don't know how fetal people get.
If I were to sleep this fetally. Uh.. is Fetally a word?
feedly deedly deedly... that would feel like my knees are on that edge but if I just
relax them down a little bit feels a lot better.
I don't know where I put my arms as if I did that. I think I'd probably just... probably be a crossed arm guy right there.
Now I've got the REI Flash pad and I'm gonna slip that between the... the two layers of this hammock so that the pad is underneath
this layer and lay in that.
So I do have the pad lightly inflated and it's easy enough on this hammock come to the end you have a nice big pocket there that's
sliding that pad in
Ahhh.... that's pretty nice and comfortable right there. I do like the pad in here.
I can feel the warmth of that pad of course I know I'm gonna have my top
quilt or sleeping bag warming me on the side here.
Keep in mind that every camping pad has an r-value meaning what its insulation level is.
So if you want to have warmer insulation if you use in a pad check your r-value and make sure
you're getting a pad that's going to get you to the temperature you want to get to.
Here I've got the a... this is my EXPED 9 right here...
This is an highly insulated pad and that that pad is good to about 30 below zero and the price
well it reflects that.
I'm gonna slip that EXPED in there real quick. I under inflate it a lot for this hammock and the reason is it's a shallow hammock anyway.
It's got a shallow lay um so when you put a pad and a hammock like this it
really raises you up.
Yeah that's pretty comfortable with the EXPED 9. I'm just not comfortable laying on that side because of my shoulder.
Can't lay there too long. Let me go to
this side and it's a bit of a wider pad so I can feel it kind of coming up
behind my buttocks right there but if I had that top quilt or sleeping bag on
there that of course would take care of that don't get gaps or you'll get cold
here and... that pad seems to raise my knees up off the sharp edge on the
bridge hammock.
Feels pretty good.
Now one of the best most comfortable side sleepers is the AMOK Draumr or either the 3.0 or this one the XL. It's a
hammock that's dependent on a pad and you can just see how wide open it is and
you got a lot of room to be on your side
so now let's just roll on the side
arms, buttocks, knees are on the pad..... even in a deep fetal
pretty wide open in here.
So that is just another option it's an entirely different hammock but it is a
great stomach and side sleeper.
What do you think? Should we look at a few more? I think we should. So let's do.
Now a little side sleeping in the Dutchware Chameleon.
I CAN BREATH!!
And now the Dream Hammock Raven
The Wilderness Logic Snipe hammock 11 feet by 60 inches wide.
Warbonnet Eldorado.... which is like the XLC exactly except that it does not have a shelf.
Everything else is the same.
I'm not sure there is much left to say or do on this video.
So get that hammock...lay on your side try it out for a night... see how you feel.
Put in a pad or an under quilt or none at all. Who am I to tell you what to do..
I'm just the guy that hammocks just like you.
Let's come together...side sleepers...back sleepers... stomach sleepers...tent campers. The whole World.
Let's be good to people out there. Be good to somebody today and they'll be good to you. All secure in Sector 7
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