Was reading a testimonial about the Tri-Grip somewhere, and I have to say I'm extremely cynical about this kind of stuff, or rather people's responses and comments make my cynical, mostly because the majority of them have no critical thinking skills. So this guy says that he's got pain in his hand so bad he almost quit bowling for good, but got refit with it. Says he started out the next night with a ball with his old fit on it, and was in terrible pain, but switched to a Tri-Grip ball for the second and third game, and the pain completely disappeared and he had some big games.
Now to me, this isn't praise for the Tri-Grip, it's identifying just how horrific his previous fit was. You can't tell me that if you already have at least a decent fit, which is still leaving you in so much pain that you've considered quitting, that the Tri-Grip is so much better that it would magically cure you or completely fix the problem. This is saying nothing about the Tri-Grip, I'm sure it's great, but the fact that several people replied to this guy in awe and going bonkers over having to find somebody that does the Tri-Grip now makes me cringe at the mental bankruptcy of the vast majority of the population these days. Just because something is better than what you had doesn't mean much at all (again, nothing against the Tri-Grip, it's got a track record that speaks for itself, it's the logic or principle of the situation), and again, if you're in so much pain that you feel like you have to quit bowling, no fit, however good it is, will fix that. This guy had to have had one of the worst fits on the planet.
And on the other hand, why will bowlers fall hook, line, and sinker for some things, and be so resistant and almost aggressive and vehemently against other things? Are they just in love with gimmicks and feeling smarter than everybody else? "Well I have a Tri-Grip fit, all my layouts are dual angles, I even have a few MOtion hole drills." Yeah, and you also average 170 because you don't know how to actually apply all that stuff, congratulations. Have people lost the ability to critically examine certain things? I filter everything I hear and read through several layers of logic, and obviously from some of my posts I may not come to the right conclusions, but I've at least made an attempt and have found an angle to start from. I don't get it.
