Everybody's hands are different.  If your fingers aren't very flexible, reverse finger pitch can relieve some stress and pain.  Also it can help get your hand out of the ball a little quicker and cleaner if you have a tendancy to want to "help" the ball a little too much and try to hit it at the bottom of the swing too hard.

I don't use grips, but have 5/8 reverse (RF) and 3/4 reverse (MF).  My finger joints are very stiff from jamming them multiple times playing ball when I was a kid and bowling for 45 years.  Before I learned to fit and drill both fingers had 1/4 forward pitch, and my joints stayed sore all the time.  I changed the pitches, didn't lose any revs, and my joints don't hurt any more.  I very seldom put a customer into forward finger pitches but frequently use reverse.  --  JohnP

I have reverse thumb pitch because I have a stiff thumb.
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CHRIS FARLEY:1964-1997        

JOHN CANDY:1950-1994

JOHN BELUSHI:1949-1982

JIM MORRISON:1943-1971

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Edited on 8/16/2008 10:05 PM