Bowling Tip And Technique

Posted on April 18, 2008 in Recreation and Sports by admin

Whether you’re an amateur or a recreational player, bowling is a great pastime. A big problem amateur or a recreational players have is that their bowling ball always seems to have a fatal attraction to the gutter. Tired of gutter balls? Want to know the proper positioning of the feet and the right place to aim for strikes? To help the beginner avoid these mistakes, I decided to write a guide for Bowling Tip and Technique.

The first step is knowing how to hold the ball. See the three holes? The isolated hole right in the middle, separate from the two holes closer together is for the thumb. The other two holes are for your middle two fingers. To hold the ball properly, hold the ball palm up with the thumb facing directly toward the ceiling. Then turn the thumb slightly to the left to a 10 o’clock position. This is the way the ball should be held until its release.

Next, it is time for the approach. You should being your approach about four and half steps behind the foul line of the lane. Therefore it should take you four steps from beginning of the approach to release the ball. Approximately four steps away from the foul line is a row of dots. These dots tell you where to position your feet. For a righty, your left foot should be on the CENTER dot. Vice-versa for the lefty.

Now that I have established the proper position, I will get to the cream of this article: how to bowl a strike?

You should always aim to get a strike on every frame. (turn) It is common misconception for beginners that you want to hit the pins right down the middle. Actually you want to hit the pins in an area called the pocket.

For right handers, the pocket is between the one and three pins. For left handers the pocket is between the one and two pins. You want to maximize the contact the ball has with these pins. For right handers, you want the ball to curve into these pins from the right. Left handlers, the left.

Alright so how do we release the ball? (This is for right handers. Left handlers reverse everything.)

As I said before, you want to start your approach four and half steps back from the foul line. You should take you first step with your RIGHT leg first. This is the step where you have your right arm out. The second step is where you bring the ball back. At about the same time when you take the second step, the ball should be perpendicular to the floor. The third step occurs when the ball is extended behind you and the final step is the forward release of the ball. You don’t want to throw the ball. It is more of a rolling motion where the forward momentum of the ball provides the power.

If you look down the lane, you will see some arrows. For a righty, you want to roll the ball so it goes between the second and third arrows on the left. Use your right shoulder to aim. If you find that your ball curves to the right, you should move right. Vice Versa for the left.

This concludes my guide to Bowling Tip and Technique. See you at the lanes!

Want to wow your buddies the next time you all go bowling? Visit John’s blog at bowlingtipandtechnique.blogspot.com to learn how to completely transform your bowling game from one game to the next.

John Liu is used to be a recreational gutterballer, but now is a recreational bowler.

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