A couple of notes/warnings on gloves/wrist supports:
- most gloves will cause your span to change from what you use without a glove. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, but the thing to remember is the ball and span will feel different as you switch between them.
- most gloves will give you a few more revs due to the stiff/straight support to the back of the hand/wrist. This seems to allow you to use even less pressure to hold a ball and allows your thumb to exit even quicker than without the glove. I'll often remove the glove to get less revs when the lanes seem to be too reactive.
- Many people remove the glove to shoot spares; this helps them throw the spare ball straighter.
- Use of the glove can weaken your wrist muscles over time because it does a lot of the work that your wrist does naturally. While this helps when you use the glove, it can, over time, hinder the throwing of your strike ball when you decide to remove the glove. (Of course, people with very strong hands & wrists, people who work with their hands, will have less trouble than those who work at desks
- There are a huge range of "feel" with gloves, from the Mongoose series which just have a cloth strap going across the palm and cloth covered metal brace across the back of the hand/wrist, to some that are also literally robotic arms/wrist replacements: Vise-Grips, Robby Revs, Moro Pro Release, etc.
