Interchangeable Thumb Benefits
Scott PohlDescription
Do you struggle hitting your target? Does your bowling ball feel different in your hand between competitions? Excessive grip pressure or squeezing to hold onto the bowling ball will result in errant shots.
In this free video, Scott Pohl, owner of On Track Pro Shop, explains that if you have multiple bowling balls and they all feel different to you, an interchangeable thumb insert will give you confidence in your grip.
Overview
To start, an oversized hole with tabs is drilled into all of your bowling balls.
The thumb insert has locking tabs on one end and your thumbhole on the other.
You insert the tabs side into the oversized hole and twist clockwise. It will lock when it’s in position.
To get your thumb insert out of the bowling ball, simultaneously apply pressure while twisting counterclockwise until it unlocks.
Benefits
Having the same feel between all of your bowling balls is the biggest benefit interchangeable thumb inserts have to offer. If you use grip (white) or slide tape (black) in your thumb hole, you only have to apply it once per competition. This is a big timesaver if you are a tournament bowler switching between four to six bowling balls.
Multiple sizes
Everyone’s thumb expands and contracts in size, mostly due to the environment they are bowling in. Hot, cold, humid, and dry conditions all affect your grip on the bowling ball, and you will need to adjust how you approach gripping the ball for each environment.
Having a thumb insert in each size—small, medium, and large—gives you even more flexibility in the environment you are bowling in to get your best grip possible.
Check out Control How Your Bowling Grip Feels in Different Environments” and Taping Your Hand with Bowling Tape for more expert bowling instruction on making your grip feel the same every time you bowl.
Scott Pohl here from OnTrack Pro Shop. We have three locations in the Twin Cities. We'd be more than happy to help you, come look us up. What we're looking at right now is an ever growing popular thing in bowling balls, interchangeable thumbs. What's the benefits of interchangeable thumbs? Number one, you can own numerous bowling balls and it's gonna look something like this ball inside here. Sort of a big hole to have with the ball. So what we can do with these interchangeable thumbs are we get to a tournament or a league session, you know what, we only have to tape up one thumb hole or two maybe to get it ready. In the past, if you had 6, 7, 8 bowling balls, you'd have to check every one, it'd be a little bit time consuming. Sometimes you're under the gun a little bit for a time constraint. Interchangeable thumbs make it a lot easier. What's another great thing with interchangeable thumbs? Well, let's say your thumb fluctuates in size a lot. You know what? Whether or not you're bowling a lot, thumb typically is bigger, warmer weather, little more humid, thumb is bigger size. On the opposite of that, maybe you're not bowling a lot. Your thumb could be smaller. Also, cold weather typically dictates our thumb isn't very big. Well, you know what? You can have multiple sizes of thumb inserts, a great way to combat this problem. So you don't have to use numerous pieces of tape in a very big thumb hole. Or if your thumb hole's too small, you know what? That can be a trouble area. How do these work? Pretty simple. Let me show you. So as you can see, the thumb insert has a front and back as I have tape inside the thumb hole. White in the front, black in the back. So what I'm gonna do is actually put this on my thumb. And inside this large hole, there's a couple of tabs. You know what? I just feel right inside the thumb hole as I put it in. Turn it and it actually locks in for me, all right? Can I get this out? Pretty simple, yeah, it's not that bad. You know what? I just put a little bit of pressure on the thumb. Turn it counterclockwise, lefty loosey, and it pulls straight out. Real simple to use from ball to ball. You have the same exact feel. You know what? Personally, I've been using these a really long time. I absolutely love them. Check out interchangeable thumbs. I think it can help your game a lot.
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