Pool Review for Ungloves or "Finger Slides"

Pros

• Instant bridge feedback
• Comfortable, even cozy
• Simple to use
• Easily cleaned and stored
• Available in many attractive colors

Cons

• Be sure to measure your fingers for size accurately

Description

• Flammable but fun!
• Will solve many players' wishy-washy bridge quite fast.
• I own several sets of these for teaching my students bridge work!

Guide Review - Pool Review for Ungloves or "Finger Slides"

It's always a pleasure to do a pool review on a handy product, in this case, pun happily intended. Nancy Cote's "unglove" finger slides provide outstanding feedback on the overlooked hand of pool and billiards--the bridge hand.

Pool gloves are getting a little more popular among players, although not this one--I find them clumsy and awkward to wear during play. Along comes pool inventor Nancy Cote with her finger slides. Thanks, Nancy!

The finger slides concept is simple and well executed. Cote has created custom "ungloves" to fit over two fingers and a thumb without the rest of the glove left to touch the table cloth. Heat is reduced on the bridge hand, and besides just plain looking cool, the finger slides provide instant feedback on the bridge hand's feel during pool strokes while being far less cumbersome than plain old pool gloves.

Allison "The Duchess of Doom" Fisher, Karen "The Irish Invader" Corr and Johnny "The Scorpion" Archer have given a thumbs up (pun intended) on the product, which is available in a variety of sizes to fit your fingers direct from the Finger Slides website. The gloves, ah, better make that ungloves, are durable and made with quality, carefully stitched with all seams on the underside of the product touching the hand, and simple to care for and clean.

The sole drawback I could find is that if you are not a big fan of pool gloves to begin with, you will probably not wear finger slides often during play. Having said that, I still find them far superior to gloves for that important test of bridge hand skill--an immobile hand on the table with fingers allowing the cuestick to pass unimpeded yet controlled during the stroke.