proper thumb fitment?

[billf]

Now that you have felt the relaxed thumb you can understand why it's so hard to explain in print lol
Tape is meant to go in and come out to adjust for swelling, humidity, etc. Don't be surprised to fiddle with the tape a lot. Rest your thumb before it ends up looking like mine

[Big Nick]

Now that you have felt the relaxed thumb you can understand why it's so hard to explain in print lol

Tell me about it, LOL! The real kicker in the situation is that I don't know if I was getting hung up because the hole was becoming too tight because my thumb was swelling or if I was inadvertently pinching the ball.... truth be told, it was probably due to pinching way more than my thumb actually swelling. I started the first game off with three strikes, and I'm sure I got a little antsy and started pinching in anticipation of delivering the ball. The rest of the game was back and forth between good releases and late releases because my thumb was flexed somehow.

Now that I know what a relaxed thumb is supposed to feel like while it's in the ball, I'm going to spend my entire next practice session working on thumb fitment. I need to figure out what my go to tape regimen will be so I can start close and adjust from there depending on how swollen my thumb may or may not be on any given night.

[Big Nick]

Hopefully this will be my last update in this thread. I had every intention of staying out of the bowling alley until Saturday or Sunday in order to give my thumb time to rest. However, the skin on the back of my knuckle was back to normal by the time I got up for work yesterday morning....... and, one of my favorite bowling alleys had $8 unlimited bowling yesterday afternoon. So after work, my wife and I headed that way and we each bowled 6 games. I spent most of the first game messing with thumb tape, and I finally found something that I thought was close. However, I was still sticking in the ball a little, and I was noticing that my wrist was more sore than normal. About mid-way through the second game, I decided to put on my wrist support and see if that would help. Not only did it eliminate the wrist discomfort, it also helped me get out of the ball better. I came to the conclusion that some of my thumb problems came from my wrist being unable to support the ball at the bottom of the swing. I'm going to work on strengthening my wrist so that I can bowl without the support, but for the time being, I'm keeping it on. With it on I bowled my highest game ever in that particular house.