Loosen your grip

Noticed this lately:
When driving a bike at a fairly decent speed, if by mistake you run over a speed-breaker, you have better chance of still being in control of your bike only, if your hand-grip isn't all that strong

If by mistake your hand-grip is too hard, then the impact of the speed-breaker is directly proportional to you losing control of the bike.
Guess, it thus pays not to have a hard hand-grip.

I trust, one can draw a parallel of this scenario to 'cricket' or 'shuttle' or 'hockey' or to other sports too.

It is important to have a loose grip on the bat/racket/stick-handle cause that way you get to wait for the ball/cork and then use the wrist to play at the last moment.

I think the key to play extra-ordinary flicks in cricket is to have a superb bottom-hand game. In cricket of course, the right-hand batsman tend to have a loose left-hand grip and strong 'right-hand grip' to play those awesome flicks between mid-wicket region to fine-leg region. Of course if the bottom-hand grip is too hard the ball on collision with the bat will end up flying in the air, thus the chances of getting caught is also high. But feebler the grip is, the better the chance of ball going along the ground and more finer. Indians somehow seem to have a divine power to play these strokes on and on. Hyderabad cricketers Azharuddin and VVS Laxman are exponents of this stroke.

In the sport of 'shuttle' or 'badminton' too, another Hyderabad wristy genius P. Gopichand said that Indians play this sport with lots of wrist-skill than anyone else which helps them play those exorbitant cross-court shots or drop shots, while most other top-international contenders play the quick-fast-hard game, with little wrist-skill though. According to Gopi, where Indians miss out is in the fitness part, which traditionally our genes are never equipped to.

The sport of 'hockey' too used to depend on strong wrist-work and 'stick-magic' during the days of 'grass courts'. During grass-court days, a players stick work and anticipation of ball-bounce were important and I trust, Indians with their traditional strength which allows to play good wristy strokes and their soft-holding of the hockey stick helped them to adjust to bad ball-bounce and to play the strokes at the last moment which means they can hit from one end to another without much ado. But the introduction of 'astro-turf' meant the usual skills of 'stick-work', 'wrist-work' or 'individual brilliance' did not gain much recognition, instead it is more about speed-strategy-teamwork which became important.

Impact of hold on life in general:
The tight hold on material possessions or close linkages or bonding with people, means you will have more to lose when any of these possessions are lost or bondings broken. The lighter you hold, the better you are placed in the recovery road.