Plopping question!

[bunnylake]

So I have just started plopping with a tshirt! My hair does dry faster with less frizz this way.
However I'm unsure about something.
After my shower, when I bend over the tshirt, only the length of my hair comes forward. The front and crown are wet and stuck close to my scalp. I've been fingering through a bit to try and get more of my hair to fall forward, but I don't want to manipulate it so much while it's wet to avoid damage.
Should I just rinse my hair upside down from now on? What do you do?

[earthnut]

I wash right side up and bring all my hair forward when I go into the plop. I might smooth it down a bit with my palms to encourage clumping, but I don't know if that really makes any difference. I'm pretty gentle, though not overly so. I don't rake my fingers all the way through my hair, just enough to bring it forward. I haven't found this to be damaging at all. I got the most hair loss from messing with my hair as soon as it's wet. I need to wait until I put conditioner in my hair before I start detangling. Since I started doing that, I've had very little shedding. The plopping doesn't seem to make any difference.

If I do everything upside down I get more tangles. I don't get more tangles if I just plop upside down, for whatever reason.

An alternative to plopping is clipping and scrunching. Clipping lifts the roots and scrunching dries your hair without friction.

[Mahealani]

what if you use the T-shirt just like you would the towel? I don't use plopping method like described here:
http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/curl-products/to-plop-or-not-to-plop
I use it like I would the towel and it works just fine. Ok to be honest, more than fine :D.
Oh and do try to squeeze out as much water as possible before you put T-shirt on. Or even use two T-shirts. I do, the 1. to wrap around my hair and just squeeze, the other one as the turban.
Hope this helps you a bit.

[lmfbs]

I just shake a little bit to loosen the hair from the scalp. Seems to work ok.

[spirals]

I wash right-side-up, but my final rinse is upside-down. Otherwise my hair is flat on top.

[earthnut]

Oh, since it's been mentioned, I like to go directly into a plop with extremely wet hair. If I let my hair dry at all before plopping, I get less curls.

Oh this reminds me, when I go into the plop, my hair has quite a bit of leave in conditioner in it. Maybe that's why I don't get any damage. Maybe you need to leave more conditioner in your hair?

I preen, rinse, (maybe wash, rinse), condition, detangle, plop. No rinsing between conditioning and plopping.