tacky or hook grip?

What's the general consensus here? I'm curious..

do you guys hook it or lather up with tacky for WFD?

Hook grip feels so akward to me throwing, it's very difficult to get past it. No issues with my thumb in reards to pain or discomfort, just feels incredibly akward while spinning.

I prefer to wrap my fingers in athletic tape and put a few dabs of tacky on it to prevent the WFD from slipping out prematurely due to the smootheness of the tape. If I go bareback I don't need tacky at all, but within 7-8 throws at least callus gets ripped off...

what do you guy do?

I'm all doped up on coffee and Thera-flu - I hope no one minds my long-winded appreciation of hook gripping...

I think hook grip is the easiest way. The best thing about hook gripping is that you don't have to squeeze with your grip to hold on to the weight. This relaxes the arm and shoulder and gives you a longer lever to throw the weight with. Also helps keep the whole mentality  of the throw smooth and long.

I started hook gripping in 2001 and I have finally perfected my method only this year. I now wear a pretty tight soft leather glove with half of the pointer and middle finger cut off and the whole thumb cut off. I tape just my thumb. But I've only recently learned how to properly tape it...

Harrison's secret recipe of awesomeness:

1)Take a 1/2 wide piece of tape that is twice as long as your thumb and wrap from the base of your thumb up and over the tip back down to the other side. Do this once more - crossing the pieces of tape so the x is on the tip of your thumb.

2) Then loosely wrap the thumb with torn 1/2 wide athletic tape - till you have the thumb wrapped 2-4 layers thick - make it a little thicker towards the top than at the base of the thumb - gives a bit of a wedge effect to really help secure the grip.

Then, with the help of some lovely Brock's Magic Tacky, I put just a DOT on my pointer and middle finger and get it worked in really tight onto a small spot on my thumb. I want that 1/4 inch of surface on my thumb to be really sticky - but nowwhere else. I will chalk the rest of my thumb, the sides of my pointer and middle fingers and the handle of the weight to get rid of other peoples tacky residue.

3) Don't over hook the thumb. You want to see at least a 1/2" of thumb showing at the bottom. The center joint of my thumb is centered between my two fingers.

The day I started this excessive routine, I had a 2' pr in LWD at 84' 10". Also, because of the taping method, I have no more thumb pain.

The problem with a super tacky glove imo is that all that tack slows down how fast the weight leaves your hand. Maybe I'm wrong but if the weight is glued to your entire palm and fingers, how can that not limit distance if the sticky is slightly counter acting the momentum of the weight? Granted, Ryan Vierra and Karl Dodge, with super tacky gloves went 49' 10 and 47' 11.5 in the HWD without the hook gripping...but not everyone is superhuman.

hook grip it is, I can't friggin hold on to the went when I get a really good pull on it..

twice I would have nailed 35+ HWFD and twice it ripped out of my hand around the 2 o'clock position..

Thanks for the advice errbody

Please do Dan...my hands keep failing me, and it impacts my lifts and my throwing.

Really pissing me off.

Where does he get those wonderful toys?

Thanks Dan!  Check M's site last night hunting for these things..do you have the name so I can order some?

Once again...

Dave is just demonstrating his search engineering computer super geekiness.

Dose the whole glove and hook grip thing apply for WOB event? It looked to me that dude in the video wore mechanic gloves that looked a size smaller than what he'd normaly would wear.

Thanks for the video