This is your regular PSA to learn the “over-under method” of rolling cables!

Coiling a cable the ‘normal’ way, whether just in your hands, around your elbow, or somewhere else, imparts a 1/2 axial twist to the cable each time.
That’s the main thing that causes your extension cables to develop kinks and degrade!
If you use the over-under method, the 1/2 twist is counteracted by a -1/2 twist every second loop, so the cable is kept flat and unstressed.
This can hugely increase the lifetime of your electrical cables, to upwards of 20 years of heavy use, without kinks or twists.
(GIF credit hosatech.com)

@s0 There's a butterfly-wind you can do with your hand and elbow that allows you to do this really, really fast.
I learned this some 55 years ago and used it for about ten years while I worked in the broadcast industry. Don't ask me to do it today.
@Ralph058 @s0
After 30 years as a sound guy and probably 100 miles of coiled cables, I can back coil a cable really fast without even thinking about it.