Real men don't wear wrist supports

[dnhoffman]

Yes X military here also! Drafted during the Vietnam War! Good for you that your work out, as do I! Its the best way I know to keep everything working properly!! I think as a starter, the mongoose is GREAT!! It will train the wrist to keep a good position on your delivery!

Then after a while, bowl without it now and then! It took me to a new level of wrist position! I now bowl without, but it did help give me that feel, of not opening the wrist while letting the ball go, and causing the ball to flatten out going into the pocket!

The mongoose is very comfortable also... you will like it!

I've been mixing in taking it off during my practice sessions, ultimately I'd like to go without it but right now I don't wanna get rid of the life jacket.

[Stormed1]

After 2 serious wrist injuries from falls I wear a Storm Wristglove with the metal removed. It just helps keep my wrist tight. I have a customer who wears a Storm Gadget and before that a Cobra. He has 30+ 300's and 24 800+ series. He has also averaged 230+ for the last 10+ years. So in reality it's whatever works for you

[dnhoffman]

After 2 serious wrist injuries from falls I wear a Storm Wristglove with the metal removed. It just helps keep my wrist tight. I have a customer who wears a Storm Gadget and before that a Cobra. He has 30+ 300's and 24 800+ series. He has also averaged 230+ for the last 10+ years. So in reality it's whatever works for you

Thanks, see Iceman, I'm not nuts!

[vdubtx]

Is use one of these, don't care what anyone says. It helps my wrist feel better while bowling.

[tr33frog]

vdubtx - I started with one like that a few years ago and it was perfect for what I needed! Just needed a bit extra support of the wrist and it made it easy to adjust my throw between spare and strikes.

[MICHAEL]

After 2 serious wrist injuries from falls I wear a Storm Wristglove with the metal removed. It just helps keep my wrist tight. I have a customer who wears a Storm Gadget and before that a Cobra. He has 30+ 300's and 24 800+ series. He has also averaged 230+ for the last 10+ years. So in reality it's whatever works for you

I understand you wearing one due to injury, but your friend? Are his scores as good without the wrist bowing enhancing devise? Does he have an injury also?

Did he do all of the 300s/800s with a wrist support? I can relate to falls, I had 2 bad ones as an Iron Worker putting up steel,,, First one I broke my neck, but was lucky,, I live with the pain, and then a lower back, L5 and L6 herniation, along with stenosis, and scoliosis, my feet feel like they are on fire, and tingle all the time, so I many times were sandals to bowl.

I wonder where I would be if I would have taken up the sport in my 20s, 30s, 40s 50s,,, I just got started 3 years ago, at 62,, I was in a lot of pain then, but have worked through a lot of it, and feel much better now then each of the last 2 years.

I just stuck with it, working out, eating right, gave up all my bad habits what few I had, supplements,,, good pure drinking water, and organic foods as much as possible,,, Now 700s are coming around more often, and two 300s within the last 6 months..

Wrist devises should be used for practice only, unless you have a doctors excuse due to injury! (

I wounder what percent of pros if any were wrist supports?? Anyone know of a top money winner that wears one?

Are they legal for Pro's?



I can actually say that the doctors were TOTALLY WRONG,, when they said I would be in a wheel chair, if I didn't take they medications, that I know would have destroyed me! RA, lupus are many times a death sentence also... which 5 doctors said I have based on blood tests!

Changing a life style can save a persons life, and make them a pretty good bowler! I will never be like your friend Storm1, but then I got started very late, and with many health issues to work through! But guess what,,,, I have felt better each of the last 3 years!

I know I will have more 300s, and that 800 this fall sometime... been close,,, 780 a few weeks ago,,, 725 a month ago... in spite of my age, and disabilities.

Storm1, what's your friends name, and USBC number,,, would be cool to take a look at his remarkable scores..

[MICHAEL]

I am just going to say it! Wrist machines/deviceses/performance inhancing do-dad's, should be inllegal!

What I am saying is, where does it STOP?

Balls that can make a sloppy throw come back to the pocket even when you miss your target by 10 boards... Wrist devises that you can dial in what pitch you want on your release, whats next,,, its like taking the sport out of the game!!

I think if your healthy, and don't have injuries to your wrist, you should do 90 days for wearing a performance inhancing wrist device! 90 days hard labor!

Everyone is talking about how easy it is to throw 300s.... Quit making error correcting balls that find the pocket regardless of where you throw the dang ball!

Real Men and Women,,, burn your wrist cheating devises, AFTER YOU LEARN HOW TO BOWL!

Pretty soon they will have battery operated Androids, that you can use to ball in place of YOUR SELF!! Where will this all end??????

Be a MAN,,, or WOMAN,,,, bowl like then did in Jesus's time,,,, I do!

If I bowled my third 300 wearing the Mongoose, I would feel like a Cheetah!!!

!

[dnhoffman]

Agree to disagree I guess.

[dnhoffman]

Should we ban bowling shoes too because they allow a better slide/energy transfer?

Reactive coverstocks are probably out too...

[J Anderson]

I wonder where I would be if I would have taken up the sport in my 20s, 30s, 40s 50s,,, I just got started 3 years ago, at 62,, I was in a lot of pain then, but have worked through a lot of it, and feel much better now then each of the last 2 years.



I wounder what percent of pros if any were wrist supports?? Anyone know of a top money winner that wears one?

Are they legal for Pro's?

If you had done it in your twenties, you might have gone pro and then who would have put up all that steel and iron, and taught the next generation of iron workers?

There is no reverse in the automobile of life, you can only go forward. You can change your course or change your speed, but you can't go back.

Like bowling, there is only the shot at hand. If the last one was bad, you learn what you can from it and put the bad result out of your mind and focus on doing the next one right.



Very few pros still use wrist devices. They can only use ones that are P.B.A. approved, meaning the manufacturer has paid the P.B.A. off. Mike Scroggins, an 8 time Tour winner with 2 major titles and 1.9 million dollars in tour prize winnings, is one of the few who still uses one.