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4.5
I like my gloves to do two things: feel good, and play good. This glove definitely feels awesome. It's extremely comfortable, light, and breathable. Best feeling glove I've used to date. However, after about 2 weeks of use, the grip is really letting me down fairly often. The grip is made of leather, which worked well at first, but now that it has smoothened out a bit, it feels like I'm working harder to hold onto the racquet than I would be if I just used my hand. The leather is starting to slide on the rubber grip of my racquet. However, it is training me to swing with authority and hold the handle much tighter which is really helping my accuracy. I will almost certainly be buying more of these as they wear out.Durable and comfortable!These gloves work exactly as They Should. Anybody posting that they play racquetball and these gloves get slick doesn't really play. They are whiners!!! anybody who really plays switches their gloves out after every game that's why raquet ball players carry many gloves of the same kind. ---- everybody. So if you play 5 games when you go buy 5 gloves. They'll last over a year and you'll never have a problem. Don't skimp on the quantity of dry gloves you can useBought if for my husband while we play tennis, he seems to like it, however, I found it cheaper on another website. Will buy again but from the other website, need to buy a few for him and it would be more cost effective doing it through the other company.I'll start by saying I'm usually a fan of Head products anyway, so it was unusual for me to pick up anything Ektelon. The design is certainly lacking compared to other gloves including Ektelons. The fit is great, although the overlap in the back when clasped is annoyingly uncomfortable and digs into the back of your hand. The palm doesn't have the greatest grip. That is doubled by the fact that the material doesn't absorb moisture well at all and is soaked after maybe 20 minutes on the court. After this the racquet rotates in every forehand and backhand grip as if you had no glove at all. Overall it's semi-usable for a short period of time and has a decent price, but is lacking in performance and feel. Probably wouldn't recommend buying this glove to a friend or an opponent.I hit so many golf balls that I use this item as a golf glove. I suffered some damage to both my hands on board ship and I had to wear two gloves to play golf. I was burning through golf gloves until I experimented and used my racquetball gloves. I've been using them ever since. Even hitting two or three buckets of golf balls a day, these gloves last me about four months.I've been playing racquetball for over 40 years. In my opinion, the right glove is as important as the right racquet. Ektelon make many excellent gloves, but this one is my favorite. Well made, snug fit, stays a bit tacky and can be washed, but not too many times. Get the right size. Don't buy a bigger glove than you need. It should fit like a second skin.I play racquetball twice per week every week. I have regularly used Ektelon Max Tak and Ektelon O3 gloves, and with the exception of one poorly cut glove that chafed my hand, I really like both models. The last time I needed a new glove, both of those were out of stock, so I thought I would try this Controller II, on the theory that although it wouldn't last as long, it was cheaper so I could just buy them more frequently and have a new glove more often for the same total cost.Wrong. The Max Tak and the O3 gloves generally give me about 3 months of play before the palms start to become stiff and shrunken, and another 3 months of good use before they need replacing. This glove is stiff and shrunken after 2 weeks! That's 1/6th as long. The other two also have a much stickier grip. Do yourself a favor, spend the extra $4-5 and get yourself a much better "deal."This glove contains all the essentials wanted from a raquetball glove: tight fit, good grip and breathable tissues.Good job Ektelon!
