I didn't like it at all on my first sporran. But that one was a hard leather variety. The one I have and use now is a softer leather, one of the buzz kidder rob roys ordered from USAK. It's [the thumping sound] a little more subdued on this one, as the leather is softer.

So now, as the others have said, I think of it more as a cadence, or keeping up the beat for me to walk to. I rather enjoy it.