Your evolution in grips reminds me of myself in that over time what I started with took on, slowly, what amounted to a large change before comfort and effectiveness set in. For me I started much like Frank’s books recommend, holding the dice just with the fingertips or beginning of the pads, and gripping them VERY lightly so that they practically release themselves.

This, since January, has evolved into first gripping the dice using just the thumb and third finger at the seams, and using the 2nd and 4th finger to press the dice into each other so there is no space at the seam. Then I lay, simultaneously, the 2nd/4th finger on each side of the 3rd finger in front, sometimes adjusting the 4th finger a tiny bit down or up since I have unusually short 4th fingers vs. an avg. person’s hand. Instead of just holding the dice at the ends I usually now advance them a full halfway down the length of the dice, the thumb the same distance in back. This is now a good firm solid grip. I turn and view the landing zone and bend the dice holding wrist back a small amount so that as I swing my forearm forward I also advance the wrist straight and then forward a tiny bit faster than my forearm so that I impart definitive backspin to the dice. As time evolves forward the dice seem to stay closer & closer together, altho even if they separate the results are not worsened. I get More & more primary rolls, less & less 7s as the weeks roll on. Overall it strikes me that my inner subconscious mind knows how it wants to evolve my throw so consciously I just am sure to stay out of its way and not slow down the evolution by overthinking it. Sometimes I may fall into a streak of rolling lots of 7s for a day. By the next day this clears away. Often with a visible improvement to the fluidity of my launch. And so it goes!

Its a funny (strange) thing: although I now grip the dice way too firmly for them to just roll by themselves out of my hands out towards the landing zone (if this happened without coordination with the imparting of backspin the dice would fly haywire) I still do not consciously release the dice. It is so subconscious a process that there is no intention to release/launch a throw….it seems as if it happens totally without thought and automatically. I can sit back & notice a release, but I never try to let go of the dice. This part is solely my subconscious mind’s territory for my throws. They are more often than not getting pretty nice now. But I have a long way to go all the same!

Does your finger count start at the pinkie or the pointer. Hard to tell which finger your showing us given your description 😆 😆 .

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