Practice, practice, ouch!

So, got the gear and no idea. Practice, practice, ouch!

All my new metal detecting kit has arrived and charged, so it was time to try it out.
Due to the Great British weather everywhere including the garden is flooded and winds you can hardly stand up in.
Luckily the wife has gone to bed early so its time to raid the wallet and draws for coins and anything else to metal detect in the the front room

I have watched quite a few YouTube videos on the startup procedures and settings guides for the Minelab Equinox 700 and pairing with the supplied headphones, doing a noise panel and grout balance were very easy.
The Nox 700 weighs in at 1.75kg(2.8lbs) and is very easy and comfortable to hold and swing.
Like many people new to metal detecting getting the swing timing of around 3 seconds from one side to the other and back to the starting side took a little bit of practice.
I had to adjust the height of the shaft a couple of times to ensure the detector remains level to the ground and that I did not end up with a pendulum effect where the detector plate rises at the end of the swings.

All in all this took around 30 minutes to get to a sustainable rhythm with consistent swings.
Then came the ouch!
I banged my elbow around 7 years ago and ended up with a large swollen sack of fluid called bursitis which up until know has never given my any pain, but the swing movement had obviously antagonised the old injury.
Just to make matters a little worse, I tried again the next evening which also resulted in a sore shoulder for which I have previously torn the rotacuff.

Time too buy a harness

Thinking that I may have made an error thinking I would be able to be able to do metal detecting, I remembered watching a video of someone using a harness to remove some of the stress and strain off their wrist.
So time to do some research and time to buy a harness to continue my journey into metal detecting