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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Speedburner89 on December 15, 2005, 03:51:32 AM
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in theory, to ensure the most comfortable fingertip grip ball shouldn't your ring finger be drilled just a tad lower than your middle finger? Also shouldn't your thumbhole be shifted slightly left from your fingers (if you're a rightly) to ensure that you're not contorting your thumb in the least? Does any of this make sense to anyone, or am i just crazy?
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Don't trust the moustache
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The reason the ring finger span is longer than the middle finger span is due to geometry. Think of a right triangle. Here, A is the thumb, B is the middle and C is the right. This is from looking at the back of your hand and tracing lines with your hand outstretched. The segment from A to C is the hypotenuse and due to the pythagorean theorem it must be longer than the other two segments, including A-B, the middle-finger to thumb line.
B--C
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- Andy
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What did Andy say?
Actually Andy, that is a very good explanation. I have my thumb directly under the middle finger. My span is 4 5/8 and 4 3/4.
TT
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"Following the course of least resistance makes for crooked rivers and crooked men."
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ohh i get it now see all you do is compare math to bowling and im fine. no wonder while i was failing geometry
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"messengers are a bowlers best friend.
formerly jr_768
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thanks for the info volsfan, i'm definitely going with a dropped ring finger on my next ball, plus i have to find the right amount of forward and lateral pitch to perfectly fit my thumb.
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Don't trust the moustache
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Speed, do you feel that your ring finger is stretched, at least compared to the middle? It could be possible that there is such a large difference between the raw lengths of your middle and ring fingers that the Pythagorean thing doesn't apply. But I'm not sure of the numbers on that.
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- Andy
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yeah, but i'm only talking about a few mms lower than my middle finger, nothin drastic. As i hold my hand in front of me, palm to my face, if i position my fingers and thumb for what would be their inserted place into the ball, with zero contortion of any sort, my thumb is swung way right with a sh*t load of lateral pitch and a pretty decent amount of forward pitch and the ring finger is noticeable lower
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Don't trust the moustache