[12 piece bucket]

ok which do you use the thumb or the first finger, to get level? even though the book says first finger i was with the understanding it meant thumb.

Jerry . . . LEVEL would be if you could support a book from your forearm to thumb edge. A check would be if Level your fangers would be pointing slightly downward . . . just not all the way that's Uncocked. If you hold your arm straight out with open palm fangers together and relax your wrist, you'll be pretty much Level. Note how the fangers point down at an angle and not straight out.

If that don't work . . . put on that old pair of golf shoes you got with the flaps and real spikes. Sit in a chair. Place your right wrist on the ground. Stomp it as hard as you can with them spiked brogans.