i tried wrapping a strip of swede round a few nice rocks, to give them more grip and spin, i didn't notice to much of a difference but i didn't try "googly"

I consulted Google about googlies.  As far as I can tell by reading descriptions of how to do it, the bowler breaks his own arm in the process of throwing the ball in such a way that the batsman will be confused about which way it will bounce, and thus swing his bat at the wrong spot, where the ball is not.  Perfectly sensible.  Seems like it would use up bowlers at a ferocious rate, though.

[quote author=curious_aardvark link=1166369873/0#2 date=1166547556]do you actualy mean swede or did you intend to put suede ?
One is a hard root vegetable that I can't see being of much use and the other is soft leather that might do what you wanted.
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no i meant swede... my mom grew them, the core is surprisingly useful IF you tan it like a snake skin... but suede might work...  ;D

but did you intend to tell me actualy or actually... actualy has one L and actually has two...

f u r hung ^ on spelling u r ignorant :P :P :P

You pulling my leg?  You can actually tan a vegetable and use it like leather?

Actually (correct spelling BTW) I pictured you wrapping a puppet around your rock ... bork, bork, bork!  Swedish chef, get it?

Ouch!  OK, I'll quit, don't hit me again! And it was a googly, I ducked the wrong way...

Oh what a shame, I rather like the idea of slinging swedes, as in vegetables,  not Swedish people obviously, that would be cruel and they'd probably struggle in the pouch anyway hense ruining any spin effects

After my extensive experiance of trying the reverse grip, twenty maybe even thirty minets, I too found what Tint mentioned,  shots were low power   Partly, maybe, because I didn't know what was going to happen and didn't like to go for it.

My standard grip is a little differant, if I don't use a finger loop I wrap a figure of eight round my little and ring finger with the cord emerging between the two to run up the inside of my fist.  If I do use a loop I put it over the little finger and give one turn around the ring finger, it ends up feeling pretty much the same with the retention cord locked tight between the two.  I then hold the end of the releace cord between the pads of my index finger and thumb, or sometimes between both my index and middle finger and thumb.  This is fairly wide with about the lenth of the finger between the cords.  I had and tried both knotted and looped type slings, didn't make any differance except I could fiddle around more with the knotted one.

When I tried reversing the cords I had the retention cord emerge from the back and gave it a bit more distance by pushing it out further with the back of the middle joint of my middle finger.  I held the releace cord with my thumb against the inside of my first index finger joint.  After all that it was pretty bad anyway.  I'll try your method next time I'm out Matthias, sounds far better.  I also tried simply gripping the sling as normal and turning the hand round but throwing with a twisted arm was no good at all, someone more flexable may be able to do it but not me.  Done very very gently it may be a warm up for some peculiar muscle groups though.