After playing in the park a few days ago, I had someone go up to me and ask me if I played pool(coincidentally another one of my hobbies) because of the 3 fingered Duncan yoyo glove I was wearing. That made me do a few Google searches to find that some brands of billiards gloves do indeed appear to be the same as Yoyo gloves(and some at a lower price!). They are similar in shape and material. Can I trust any of these?
Gloves I’ve seen in use include magician-style gloves(like Mickey often uses), the Duncan glove, and I understand Marcus Koh uses some Vietnamese yoyo glove?
My duncan glove is breaking down and I might want to get a replacement, possibly 2(one for both hands), but I don’t want to spend as much on gloves as I would a lower end yoyo.
Yeah the billiard gloves should work just the same… I have a pair of black cotton gloves, or magician-styled as you said… I don’t wear them a lot though. During the summer when its hot and humid I’ll put them on because my hands get sticky.
Sometimes something gets marked up because of how it’s being presented. Worse case: buy and try something. If you don’t like it, don’t try it again.
Speaking of price gouging, I’m at Disneyland right now, where the Duncan Imperial sells for $11 and the ProYo sells for $13. Locally to me, the Imperial sells for $5 and the Flying Panda is on sale for $7 at Big 5(even here near Disneyland). I may cruise the magic store again today and pick up a couple of tricks that are reasonably priced(good luck with that price part!) My movement is highly restricted, so I have no chance of going other places.
Marcus Koh uses the H-glove from vietnam yoyoing community.
I had almost the same thing happen to me, I needed to use my glove so I could yoyo properly and my friend asked if it was a billiard glove since they basically look exactly the same.
I dont see why any billard or really any glove for that matter wouldnt work. I stock up during the fall months on run of the mill cotton gloves. Think at target i picked up a couple of 4 pair packs for 40 cents a piece. Thats a dime per pair!
