How do you hold your powerball?

MumboJumbo · 31 Oct 2008 at 12:47

Hey i just got a powerball through the post about 30 minutes ago and im loving it. Managed to get it spining fine on my second attempt which i was shocked some made it sound really hard!

But anyway, i ahve fairly small hands and im currently at 9366 and can feel it speeding up but then it starts to fly out of my hand. I knows that in time my hand will get stronger and be able to actually hold it firmer but im holding it fairly cackhandedly!

So i wonderd if any of you could post pictures of how you hold your powerball!

Ive found that if i hold the ball so that the spinny thing is on the inside, as in almost touching my palm i can grip it a lot better due to its shape. But ive not done it past about 5000 rpm because well, its going to melt my palm if it touchs it lol. Infact ive already got a nice rim of melted skin around it from where its almost flew out my hand and touched fingers!

peterattheboro · 31 Oct 2008 at 12:59

Like a cricket ball if that helps?

KaHn · 31 Oct 2008 at 13:00

I have rather big hands so never had a problem with it untill i started to get aroudn the 12k mark.

KaHn

MumboJumbo · 31 Oct 2008 at 13:25

When im doing it it constajntly keeps trying to sleep out backwards as in the bit between ** thum and your little finger. I tryed bending my luittle finger in all sorts of weird ways but it still keeps trying to go.

But now i have sustained enough burns for one day i think, maybe ill try again tonight but my hands feel very scared from all the slipping out and burning my fingers lol.

Morba · 31 Oct 2008 at 13:42

peterattheboro said:
Like a cricket ball if that helps?

pace / swing / finger or wrist spin?

Cr0fty · 31 Oct 2008 at 13:58

Claw!

Something like this =)

Jambo · 31 Oct 2008 at 13:58

I hold it the same as you 8igdave. I don't have any problems with it touching.

Won't be long before you break the 10k barrier.

Jambo · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:01

Cr0fty said:
Claw!

Something like this =)

Lol! Is that the new Leopard Man? The original has retired from his life in the wild.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7691750.stm

Cr0fty · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:02

Jambo said:
Lol! Is that the new Leopard Man? The original has retired from his life in the wild.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7691750.stm

No it was me

Kerplunk · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:03

Like a penis

Cosimo · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:08

Kerplunk said:
Like a penis

With the appropriate wrist action.

MumboJumbo · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:10

Jambo said:
I hold it the same as you 8igdave. I don't have any problems with it touching.

Won't be long before you break the 10k barrier.

Maybe ill just still to holding it the wrong way up then. I gues as long as its going fast the ball is pushed outwards so it wont touch you anyway.

simulatorman said:
With the appropriate wrist action.

if i was to get burns like i ahve on my fingers at the moment, damn that would hurt!

Phil W · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:22

Powerball??

antijoke · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:23

In the dishwasher.

Dingleberry88 · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:24

Phil W said:
Powerball??

Phil W · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:26

Ah, i've got 15

peterattheboro · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:28

Morba said:
pace / swing / finger or wrist spin?

!!

I don't know cricket.

gillywibble · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:36

Hold it like your bowling a 'wrong 'un'.

bailey12856 · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:37

I hold it like a ball.

Kerplunk · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:42

simulatorman said:
With the appropriate wrist action.