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punkrawk77

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thumb hole concerns, help please
« on: March 06, 2005, 01:31:47 AM »
I am just tired of fumbling around with thumb hole tape. I am constantly adding or taking someout try to find a comfortable feel.  Its getting annoying.  Sometimes during practice before league I spend more time with that than I do figuring out the lanes.  This is a problem.

My span is ok, although one driller told me after checking it out that it is a hair bit overstretched.  He said that it was nothing to worry about sometimes its just the preference of the person drilling the ball.

Last summer when i bowled I either needed one piece of white thumb hole tape or none at all.  My thumb must have gotten smaller cause now I need 3 or 4 sometimes and it still feels like I have a lot of room in there.  Sometimes I feel that i add so much tape that it doesn't feel natural anymore, it just has that doctored up feel in there.

Is it maybe time to try a thumb insert?

 

nd300

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Re: thumb hole concerns, help please
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2005, 09:36:43 AM »
Yes it is. It sounds like you're running into problems with thumb swelling/shrinkage due to heating in the alleys you're bowling at.
 A thumb slug should be pretty much as close to a perfect fit every time you pick up the ball and help you to relax and concentrate on lane conditions,ball reactions,etc.
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punkrawk77

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Re: thumb hole concerns, help please
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2005, 09:39:51 AM »
are there different types of thumb slugs?

TheBowlingKid25

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Re: thumb hole concerns, help please
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2005, 09:40:51 AM »
Yea your thumb is smaller now because its cold outside. Cold makes things shrink. When its hot out your thumb will get big again. As for what to do, I'd suggest Ron C's Magic Carpet. It is like the soft side of velcrow (best way to explain it) but much better then velcrow, a lot more comfortable. It lets your thumb expand and shrink and still fit in the thumb hole well.
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RoyHobbs

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Re: thumb hole concerns, help please
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2005, 02:21:15 PM »
quote:
Yes it is. It sounds like you're running into problems with thumb swelling/shrinkage due to heating in the alleys you're bowling at.
 A thumb slug should be pretty much as close to a perfect fit every time you pick up the ball and help you to relax and concentrate on lane conditions,ball reactions,etc.
 


I was under the impression that a thumb slug would just give a consistent feel from ball to ball and wouldn't really help much with the swelling/shrinkage issue of the thumb.

I am currently trying the Magic Carpets because of similar problems described by punkrawk.  So far, things look promising.  

Another product I found on online that I might try is the Thumbillow.  Has anyone else tried this?  

http://www.bowlingindex.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=BI&Product_Code=FG-AC-0005

I feel like my biggest problem right now is finding a comfortable thumbhole solution that can give me a consistent release.

JohnP

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Re: thumb hole concerns, help please
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2005, 09:36:05 PM »
RoyHobbs --  

quote:
Another product I found on online that I might try is the Thumbillow. Has anyone else tried this?


Yes, I've been using the Thumbillow in all my equipment for about a year, and have sold quite a few of them also.  I love the feel.  I oversize the thumb hole 1/16" for the 3/16" Thumbillow.  The only problem I've run into is that the foam piece separates from the black plastic backing.  If you press it back in place before each bowling session you don't have a problem.  But if you forget and stick your thumb in while it's loose it will all ball up in the bottom of the hole and be ruined.  I've recently found that a couple of drops of super glue between the sections that separate solve this problem.  The Magic Carpet works much the same way, but will blister your thumb if you knuckle your thumb joint.  --  JohnP

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Re: thumb hole concerns, help please
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2005, 03:29:03 AM »
what about those removable thumb hole devices , you know the click in ones....

um....(after a little searching)...
http://www.thomsthumb.com/
http://www.grip-loc.com/
etc...

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