Well, i tried a drastic change in my thumb, by going from 3/8 rev and 1/4 back to the pitch in the above post. And my driller hardly EVER has thumb slugs in stock. I was just looking for a quick fix. I have a terrible blister on the left side of my thumb (if you were looking at the back) It comes whenever i have to bowl more than 6 games in a set. My travel league has two 3 game sets every two weeks. That is when it happens, and i want to go to something nearly 0 0 to see if it will help at all.