Arm goes down too fast?

[BornaE]

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

Ok so, we no longer have the arm going down superfast but when we stop it from moving in the downward direction, its still super bouncy. Is there anything at all we can do to fix this? We bent up some of our arm parts from the bouncing..

can you post a picture of the arm?

need more details.
Usually
-increase gear ratio
-balance
-reverse powered lowering(requires some programming knowledge
-increase the strength of the joints and materials used.