Poohbear, I beg to disagree. IMO your hair would be as good at holding twists as any type 4 hair. I think the reason you think your hair is that different from that of
judy4all is because your kinks might be slightly bigger than hers and you also allow your kinks to form coils. For people with tiny coils, like me or judy4all, letting that happen is asking for trouble. I had never seen anyone with my hair let their hair do what yours is doing because the headache of getting a comb through that after allowing it to happen seemed like murder to me... That is, until I say
Afrokink's WNG.
That is what my hair and judy4all's hair would be like if we did what you
Poohbear did. The coils are just like yours but you can't see them as well as one can see yours coz they are tiny and her pic isn't a close-up like yours.
Foxglove's hair is like mine and judy4all's hair and she offers a better close up so you can see that coils are there, just not easy to see:
http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showpost.php?p=11246758&postcount=36
Now why do I say that your hair can hold twists for long? It is because of the coils and how compact they are. They aren't loose and wavy like type 3 hair which would unravel. The compactness makes twists hold well because the ends, particularly if you wet then and roll between fingers, will coil up like this:
You yourself said that your hair would mat/loc up if you washed in twists, so holding in twists, isn't really a problem at all. The problem anyone with type 4 hair would have is not that twists would not hold, but rather that they may mat and loc up when you wash. That is, unless you twirl each strand first before wrapping it around the other. You do that, and not only will the twists hold well (coz that's just how type 4 hair do) but they will not mat either and will unravel this easily:
http://youtu.be/Jff-Uqfb_SA