My physics is nowhere near up to snuff. I'd have to ask my daughter!

But maybe I didn't make myself clear. Gierach found, and Daiichi confirmed, that eyes tied on top of the shank on a certain kind of hook, did not make the hook ride point up. The hook, I now think it was the Daiichi 1870, is bent in such a manner in the shank, that the dumbbell, although on top of the shank, was below the hook eye.