I'd also recommend making some wrist training with weights. When I started to bowl I also had to use a wrist because my wrist was too weak to handle my 14 lbs. starting ball.
I had to keep it, but stepped up to 15 lbs. after 3 months, but I started to make wrist and finger training - my wrist with 3kg dumb-bells, laing my forearm on my knee and curling the wrist with the weight as long as I could stand it (but not forcing it), every once in a while or simply while watching TV in the evening. For my fingers I bought a workout squeeze ring made of rubber. Both worked well, so that I was able to get rid of the support after about 6 months.
I highly recommend playing without a support, but when you get back to the sport or have problems with a straight wrist, those things are the ticket. Get the lightest one you can get to keep your wrist straight. I personally dislike those big supports which cover the whole forearm and make you look like Robocop, since they rob you of almost any good ball feeling. You become a passenger, not the man at the wheel.
Those extra revs are not worth the control and easy adaption to lane conditions you have with a free hand. And if you play the support too long, you are prone to subconsciously raise speed to fight the extra revs and ball movement you generate with a better developed game and release, introducing a flaw through the support.
About your wrist problem I am not sure. Maybe you can handle it through some training, but if it does not disappear better check a doctor before you huirt yourself seriously.
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DizzyFugu --- Reporting from Germany
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Edited on 7/8/2005 2:50 AM
