Apparently grip sleeves are no guarantee when it comes to hanging on to stuff. Travis here accepted a grip sleeve from his Grandmother in good faith, only to later throw the Wii remote in a fit of excitement. *sigh* Kids these days...

"I don't even know what you'd call this thing, but My grandmother got it for me for christmas. It's the green thing on the outside of the Wii Remote in the picture. Anyways, I was playing Red Steel (New one, huh?) when the Wii remote, (Grip Glove thing and all) goes flying out of my hands on a sideways slash. It pops free from the nunchuck, and hit the wall. (The two pictures of the wall included in the e-mail) The "glove thingy" was ripped, but no damage to the remote or nunchuck. And as for the wall, my dad has some spackle in his garage. Oh by the way, 1. I wasn't wearing the wrist strap, although it was attached to the remote, and 2. It hit the wall with the bottom left corner of the remote. -Travis"

At least Travis was man enough to admit that he wasn't wearing the strap as has been advised on numerous occasions. Although, judging by the size of the dent in the wall I can't imagine that the strap would have held up to that sort of nonsense anyway. I did think it was interesting that he tore the sleeve when it hit the wall. Maybe that is something that we've overlooked in our thoughts, more padding the on the Wii remote. Maybe if we encased the Wii remote in some sort of plastic bubble it would bounce harmlessly off of things. Like one of those bop-em sock-em gloves you see kids running around with. These are the sort ideas that pop into my head and usually are followed with people telling me to never ever think again.