Getting Fitted for a Bowling Ball with a Wrist Device
Scott PohlDescription
Wrist devices are designed to support your wrist throughout the swing and release. For people with weaker wrists or who experience wrist break in the backswing or during the release, a bowling wrist device is just what the doctor ordered. In this free video, Scott Pohl, owner of On Track Pro Shop, explains the importance of getting fit with a wrist device, if you choose to bowl with one.
Bowling Wrist Device and Ball Fit
Now that you have chosen to bowl with a wrist device, you’ll need to go to your proshop and get fitted with it on. If you have a bowling ball that has been drilled without your wrist device, you’ll have to plug it and get the span adjusted accordingly. The span will be shorter with a bowling wrist device.
If you bowl with a wrist device and a ball that hasn’t had its span altered, you will have trouble releasing the ball because you will have to squeeze it. Less grip pressure equals more hook.
Fit
What you can expect your ball driller to ask from you when you are getting your equipment drilled is to:
- – Put your wrist device on (relaxed)
- – Put your fingers into the holes
- – Tighten straps on your wrist device
- – Take fingers out leaving your thumb in
- – Check span by putting your fingers over the holes
Wrist devices are designed to get your hand in the correct position at the point of release. Make sure you get fit with your bowling wrist device to avoid creating problems where they do not need to exist.
For more release videos check out “Grip Pressure and the Modern Release” and “Advanced Release Techniques.” These videos will help you master hooking the bowling ball and improve your game.
All right, it's Scott Pohl here, four time Team USA member, gold medal champion of the Pan American Games. What we're talking about today is the proper fit when wearing a wrist device. Okay, so there's a couple key features that you want to make sure you do. First of all, just put the wrist device on nice and easy. Okay, you don't want to do too much to it.
Just have it on nice and relaxed. What you want to do next, put your hand in a ball. And then, you want to tighten the straps on there. Okay. So this does a couple of things, it tells us how much tension you want to have on the wristband.
How much you don't want to have. Okay. So that's one way. Another idea is, when you're going into get your span checked, be sure you put the wrist device on, have the thumb in, and then, you want to go through the same process, put the wrist straps on, thumb in, and like so. And that'll help the pro shop operator find the correct span with everything.
So the reason we do all these things, is for a couple of reasons. When the hand has a wristband on it's a lot more rigid, and it can't bend as much. And typically that means that the span is going to be a lot shorter. If we don't use a wristband, we're able to stretch our hand just a little bit more, the span is going to be a little longer. If you don't get measured with the wristband on, chances are it's going to be too long, and it can cause some problems in the hand.
Be sure to see your pro shop operator with your wristband.
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