How Loop Bands Are Rated — And Why It's Different From Tubes
This piece explains why tube sets carry a printed LBS/KG number while loop bands are labeled with a tier name instead — two legitimate rating conventions that grew out of two different physical formats. It walks through the tier system (Light through X-Heavy), the dot-count marking that backs up the text label if it wears off, and what actually sets a loop's tier under the hood: width and material thickness, the same cross-section logic from the tube-ladder piece, just applied to a flat band. It closes by explaining why tubes get a standardized printed number and loop bands generally don't — a difference rooted in how each product is manufactured and sold, not a gap in either system.