Types of Bowling Gloves

Video Transcript

"Hi, I am Ed Kramarcik, PBA member and AMF staff player. We are here at Rip the Rack Pro Shop in Longwood, Florida. Today we are going to go over gloves, different types of gloves you can choose if you have a weak wrist and you are looking for some stability, some support, to help you stay in back of the ball that you don’t break your wrist. If you break your wrist, then you are out there bowling, breaking your wrist—meaning bending your wrist backwards—you are not going to follow through on your shot; the ball is not going to go through the roll, skid and flip like it needs to do. So, what you want to make sure is that, if your wrist is breaking, you want to get a glove. Visit your local pro-shop, stop in Rip the Rack pro-shop, and we can help you with the exact glove you are going to need. Now I am going to go over the different types of gloves there are. Some have metal bars in them, some don’t. Some use them just for tacky support, to grip the ball better. First thing we are going to go over is one that doesn’t have any support in it. If you are looking just for a glove that’s gonna just grab if you sweat a lot, and you want to put a glove on your hand, this is just a tacky glove which you use as far as that goes. And it would make you hold the ball better and hang on to the ball a little longer. The next glove you want is if you are looking for some support. You would go with another glove that has a bar in it. The difference between this glove and the other glove is the other one is for gripping, just like if it was a batting glove. This one has a lot of support so you won’t break your wrist; it wraps around your wrist; it has a metal bar in the front so you can’t bend your wrist. Once you put the glove on you are not going to bend your wrist at all. And it is going to keep your support, so now when you have the glove on your hand, when you go through the ball, you wouldn’t be breaking your wrist. You will get a lot more carry. The key is, if you are breaking your wrist, you want to go to your pro-shop and buy a glove that is supportive that is going to handle your wrist. And if you are just looking for something that grabs for support, then you can use the glove I just went over, the tacky glove. Thank you and go our and bowl a good game."