How hard do you grip you powerball?

[Estereos]

There are no rules or regulations regarding the wearing of gloves or the use of grip aids, such as magnesium-type powers or "sticky" products. Hairspray is a known aid as used by the second fastest Powerballer in the world! Since gettng the Metal I took to using something called SurGrip, though that's not available anymore, but I still have a couple of bottles I occasionally use.

However, getting powder inside the Powerball might not be a good idea. A small amount probably wouldn't hurt, but get too much in there and it'll slow the Powerball down a bit I'm sure.

I also don't think there'd be a problem adding some sort of knobbled ring, like in Estereos's post, though excessive alteration of the shape of the Powerball might raise a few eyebrows and cause us to question the validity. However, never happened in the 7 or 8 years the scoreboards have been around, so go nuts...!

Tried gloves today, didn't like it at all. Kinda loosing the feelings. Hand becomes robotic.

[Adrena1in]

Some people use them for the Metal as it's a lot heavier and quiet slippery as it's polished chrome. I used gloves for my 24-hour marathon, but I agree that for speed I find it helps to be in direct contact with the Powerball. Plus the gloves may grip the ball nicely, but if the gloves move over your hand a bit then that's going to cause problems...you really do need the Powerball locked within your palm to get those really high scores.

I hear those surgical latex gloves are meant to be quiet good.

[LTLFTC]

Tried gloves today, didn't like it at all. Kinda loosing the feelings. Hand becomes robotic.

I only ever use gloves for my hour long sessions even then I tape them. The best protection is a nice set of callouses built up over several months

[Koman]

You know, when I am really up for a challenge, I take my metal powerball and a woolen glove. That is crazy, almost impossible to hold or spin fast, but damn it's a good exercise!

[Nick the Greek]

i usually grip it hard so that it wont fall.

[Koman]

I also grip very hard because i use a special glow so it's harder to hold the ball. More muscles are trained that way.

[Darkeye]

I grip it pretty hard. So it wont slip out of my hand.

[Torque]

Hi,

I grip my powerball real hard, so hard that my veins starts poppin out.

Keep Spinnin,
Sam

[Powerball Kid (Stanley)]

I also grip very hard because i use a special glow so it's harder to hold the ball. More muscles are trained that way.

whats a special glow??

[timmyt]

I made the mistake of gripping to hard and doing tons of speed runs. at the moment i can barely use my thumb cant even open a bottle lol. buts its getting better so should be able to some more powerballing when i get back from holiday.