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Speedburner89

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in theory....
« on: December 15, 2005, 03:51:32 AM »
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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Re: in theory....
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2005, 12:36:46 PM »
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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Re: in theory....
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2005, 03:38:14 PM »
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.

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Re: in theory....
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2005, 05:31:52 PM »
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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Speedburner89

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Re: in theory....
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2005, 09:18:23 PM »
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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a_ak57

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Re: in theory....
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2005, 09:21:51 PM »
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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Speedburner89

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Re: in theory....
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2005, 02:36:25 PM »
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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