Bowling techniques, tips, tricks and facts to try and get more score points.

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Tips to master the techniques of bowling.

Something that is done less but well recommended is warming up before playing bowling. Stretch your arms about your head, stretch your knees and turn your arms around your shoulders to loosen. Rotate around your head to relax your neck. Then make 5 or more swings tell you think your all good to go.

The ball must be released when the arm is perpendicular to the approach with the ball 2 to 5 cm above the ankle of the sliding foot.

The ball, that comes from the throw from out of the hand of the bowler, should be go on the track as an airplane that lands on a landing track. This means soft and smooth at the same time. The ball may not end up on the foul line or be thrown up in such a way that the ball makes an emergency landing on the runway. This latter may destroy to bowling track.

For some people are 4 steps fine. For most players are five steps better. You get a 'hasty' swing with less than four steps. More than five steps is excessive, you would need to take to many small steps in which you would lose control over the direction of your ball.

A custom-made bowling ball for each person. Don't make it yourself easy by using a ball form another player that is almost fit you. Let your hand be measured by a professional ball maker. He can provide you a ball with an exact grip.

If you are preparing for a throw, put your fingers first in the ball, then your thumb.

Put your thumb all the way in the hole. Don't limit the energy of the swing by only using the tip of your thumb, except if you have a construction as Arnold Schwarzenegger. Besides, Arnold might be too muscular to create a natural swing motion.

The stance (the starting position) is intended to prepare the body for the movement. This means with means: with knees slightly bent and just a slightly bent back with the ball beside the arm to be ready.

The stance is intended to prepare the body for the movement. This means: stand ready with slightly bent knees and a lightly bent back with the ball next to the arm.

Generally the initial posture (stance) is: the faster the footwork, the lower the position of the ball has to be (below the waist). The slower you take the steps, the higher you can keep the ball. By running faster and faster you can create more and more power to throw the ball harder. If you run slower than you can create more power by keeping the ball higher at the stance. If you just drop the ball at a higher position than you can automatically create a larger swing, even towards the back. Try not to hold too much power so you don't lose some of your direction. It's not even necessary to give much power to a full swing. By running the swing gently and entirely you have better strength and direction.

Try the following to enlarge the lift, turn and overall movement of the ball:
a. Spread a first finger away from the finger holes and place the majority of the weight of the ball on the finger.
b. Bend your little finger so that the front of the knuckle hits the ball.

Control the ball during the swing with the insides of the fingers and thumb. Squeezing the ball will cause friction on the back of the thumb.

Use tape to adjust the size of the holes to compensate the normal swelling and shrinking of the fingers and thumb.

Don't make the push away too long. This would start the approach with a sudden lateral movement of which is difficult to recover.

Try to develop a loose, relaxed feeling. The pins can tell if your swing is tense. This is a quote that is attributed to top bowlers of contrasting styles from the thirties to the present.

Try to recognize the value of the power of the pendulum. Gravity provides a natural swing momentum, even so much that you can feel the ball is swinging itself. At least half of the pendulum's movement should come from this free energy source.

A hyper-extended elbow in the back-swing - caused by a ball that is too heavy or if the ball swing too fast - weakened the hand and fingers enormously when giving the lift and turn on the ball.

Bending the elbow during the swing strengthens the hand underneath the ball giving a rotation, but it also limits the swing momentum. Those with enough strength to restrict the natural swing momentum to overcome, might benefit from a bent elbow swing, but this is not the only way to achieve more power.

The downward arc of the back-swing should level off at knee height or slightly higher. If the ball is under the knee when passing the leg than this means that the bowler is in an overreach state to the back and / or the shoulder on the side of the ball is too far depended.

Make sure the back-swing goes not too far from the body. A towel under your arm during the back-swing would not be allowed to fall.

The orbit of the downswing moves in a straight line to the target or in a slightly outward path in relation to the body. What is absolutely not can in a side-arming - what would mean a lengthy downward movement - and a "pulled" swing line wherein the arm proceeds from a position of the body and moves across the body in the follow-through.

Keep your head steady so you have the chance to, fulfill the purpose clear and uninterrupted, view the approach while making the throughout.

'You don’t have to hit what you looking at, but you need to know what you have to hit.' That’s a way to express whit what you need to be busy instead of reaching the target, but don’t forget the target, keep it in mind.

Put the ball closer down to the fold line to make sure the ball goes to roll. Put them farther on the track to slow down to get a hook on the ball.

Know where you end with your sliding foot en know the point where you normally spoken drop the ball in relationship to the instep of the sliding foot, 7, 8 or 9 lines.

If the ball goes through the nose from an outward angle try as First option to adjust this, like this: for instance go 2 lines to left with your feet's and 2 line to left with your goal.

Admittedly, these changes seem mathematical or geometrical not very logical, but they are, under present conditions often the easiest and most effective adjustments.

Practice as often as possible in throwing the pins on the corners before you play a league or tournament is to get an idea how you can make those shots the best way.

Stand still by what you want to do before you even throw a ball. Careless shots are wasted shots even if the results are temporarily okay.

Think like you are under pressure to make a good shot, don’t think like you are going to make a great one. Emphasizing a perfect execution is not only taking too much of yourself in such situation, but is not even necessary...

To know how to make the ultimate hook ball, take a very light ball and insert only your fingertips. Let go of the ball with a cupped and accelerating so that the ball comes of by the inside of your palm. The ball would have to take a high orbit and make a sudden snap hook.

Think 'drop and drive "(drop and roll) to promote a deeper knee bend, which is followed by a strong follow-through.

Practice only the release technique with a step by step approach. Stand near the foul line, push the ball into the swing and take a slide step. Concentrate on the right rid of the thumb of the ball, while the fingers provide the lift.

Before you do your first shot, stretch your hand and warm up by stretch gently swing the ball back and forth while a making wrist movements. When it's time to bowl, then your first shot should be three-quarters the normal speed.

A common mistake (probably the most common in female bowlers of a lower-average) is the upward movement of the ball rather than push away from the person. When asked why they have that habit, most say that this is the most natural way to aim.

The hand and arm has separate functions in creating a side-roll and a hook. The arm follows through toward the target, the hand produces the right-handed-counter-clockwise rotation. Resist the temptation to swing the line by pulling across the body because it will affect the degree of side rotation that the hand may give.

To throw to level off when playing a spare, bend your wrist backward – this means "break" your wrist - and remember to release the ball with the thumb and fingers simultaneously. Continue to work normally and maintain a normal ball speed.

If you have a general spare line for each pin in the back row, then you can use this line to make any spare combination, based on that line.

If needed, you can get more ball speed obtained by lengthening the swing arc of the ball slightly. Or by bringing the ball a little bit earlier in the swing, to bring the approach at a faster pace smoothly.

Recognize that there is a contrast between stability and momentum, and how both are needed at the release. Stability occurs when the inhibitory action of the slide has a quiet end at the approach. While the power is the amount of the force that contributes to the swing.

Make sure that your hip and leg are out of the whey where you throw after the last step is made, even if it means that they had to be thrown out of the way they should be thrown in the ‘downswing’. You can not afford to make the swing around your body.

Inform yourself about the schedule of oiling on your track. A freshly cleaned and oiled track has a very variable situation, that makes that quick and frequent adjustments are necessary

A throw in a little more straight line is good for throwing spares except when double wood’s are involved, such as combinations of 3 to 9 - 10 and 2 to 8. Try this to the outside of the lea-pin to hit the back pin.

A basic principle is that a player who can produce a significant ball movement without a wrist support, is better of than a player who needs the device to get the same amount of force to achieve. Nothing is better than natural technique. But if such a device is necessary, a favorable in order to prevent the wrist folded back during the swing, and in some cases, the hand to assist to provide a side-roll.

Keep an eye on what’s important in your equipment.The value of the bowling ball in relation to your game depends on (in order of importance):
- The fit form
- The gross weight
- The surface quality of the shell (mantle)
- The design of the interior and the balance

Brush the ball in a dedicated machine to reduce the degree of hook. Clean the surface a little rough with a scouring pad or very fine sandpaper to enlarge the grip and hook.

To improve your timing (if you are too early or too late) can you adjust the push away on he key step (this means the second step in the 5-step approach and the first in the 4-step approach) . Start the ball sooner when it doesn’t reach the highest point in the swing arc when the last step begins, or delay the push away when the swing 'float'. This means that you stop your feet for a little moment to allow your arm to reach the feet.

An alternative to improve a late timing is to extend the step that follows the key step (the third step in the five-step approach, the second step in a four-step approach) to give the ball more time to make a more natural and full swing.

Frequent practice periods of 30 - 60 minutes have more effect than doing a marathon because you cant tell yourself anymore where you stand at the end.

In large tournaments you can try to make your final total score as large as possible by making various adjustments to your game, like the line you throw on, the equipment and mechanical adjustments. In a match of one game, you should just try to score as high as possible at that time without trying another way to achieve something better.

As an experienced bowlers make significant changes to their timing than that initially feels a little awkward. It takes at least two, and usually more, practice sessions before the change becomes ingrained enough to concentrate on anything else.

A cranking or 'urethane' release can be described as the turn of the wrist to the ball. A stroking release is smooth and less violent in motion. Rough players have to make their release action more smooth out, while 'pure'' strikers should try to add force to their release action.

To feel the desired upward acceleration of the hand with the release, you can throw the ball once in the air to a friend that stands a little further from you, to simulate the way you want the ball leaves your hand. Then you can try to incorporate that feeling while you get the ball into the lane.

Make a difference between a good touch and an elevator throw as opposed to throwing it up without success. Having an effective lift is a process where the fingers and hand oppose the downward movement of the ball. The force of this movement bears the ball in a planar orbit over the foul line, rather than in a path upwards.

Try to hold the shoulder straight during the back-swing by holding the other arm extended from the body, but at the level of the waist let it come down. If you hold your arm higher than the shoulder level or even higher, than this will be almost automatically associated with the lowering of the bowling shoulder during the swing.

Try to keep the other arm quiet when giving counterweight on to the ball in motion. Correct any tendency of the arm to set for up and down or forward and backward into the swing. Stretch your left arm straight out, in order to maintain balance.

If you try to go from four steps to five steps about, consider that the first step will be an easy run up to it without hesitation move the ball once the first step is taken.

When would a bowler have to go for a conventional grip instead of a grip with only the fingertips? Answer: when he or she has mastered the art of giving some turn and lift and he or she has to prepared and to be willing to play at least six games a week to control the sense of a new more powerful but trickier grip.

Try to get the feeling that your hand is pushing right through the ball at the release. It's like you hit a football or volleyball at the exactly point and on a correct manner.

Try to feel that the ball is a part of your hand and not a foreign object that you are clinging to the swing and let go at the release. This requires a good fit of the ball, a firm hand and good swing mechanics.

Don’t try to throw your rear leg too high to throw at the time of release. Because the body can be rotated on that way that the sliding food moves away of from target. If this is a problem, try to concentrate on that leg to hold it to the ground during the release and follow through.

In some cases, the small dots located six feet ( ± 3 meters) from the foul line, useful for targeting. These dots do not align with the approach dots or rangefinders. Instead, they are located on the laths 3, 5, 8, 11 and 14 of both the left and the right side of the track. Learn what the correlation of the dots on the approach and the rangefinder arrows are. The arrows are located for about 15 feet (= ± 5 meters) from the foul line. To practice your skills the first you need to remember is what ruler you are to plan to slide and what you want to cross at the arrows. Note how closely you are compared with that line you want to, repeat the shots until you slide above the right arrow.

Know what track your ball makes, something you can recognize visible by oil ring on the ball when he comes back after a shot. Note how the track runs in relation to the thumb and finger holes. Although there is no perfect track for the ball, both the full-roller (with the ball rolling between the thumb and finger holes) and the rotating versions (with the ball rolling more than three inches (7.5 cm = ± ) of the thumb and fingers) are less effective.

To Change from a full-roller to a job outside the thumb hole you can lightly exaggerating the feeling of an open hand on the highest point of the swings, maybe with the thumb on the two or three o'clock position.

Beware for throwing the ball too early, if the ball has reached the optimum release position. The hitting of the balls should not occur until the ball is next to the ankle of the sliding foot is ready to crash into the foul line if your hand is currently not accelerating.

Rubber finger inserts are popular by bowlers using a fingertip grip because these pieces give you extra firmly against the pads of the fingers, so it can increase the lift. One disadvantage: the size of the holes can not be easily be sheared by tape. You need to replace the holes as the fit becomes a problem.

By using thumb grips and inserts allows the thumb to be in contact with the same tissue regardless of the ball. This means less worries for players that frequently exchange balls.

Try practicing with the same position at the line to stand by your follow-through and hold your final position when the ball hits the pins. This effort improves the discipline.

Don't start your approach with a shock. The first movement from a standstill in your stance (start position) to come would be an easy exercise that is easy to repeat. A small, relatively slow first step is very suitable.

After the first step make sure you make step on a uniform way and speed. It does not matter if the pace is fairly fast or relatively slow, let it proceed without any hesitations, jumps or runs.

The base of the steps in the approach can accommodate moderate to fast walking pace with the heel of the shoe first putted down. If the front of the foot touches the ground first, then the approach will be executed to hurriedly.

In general, the steps from the approach to the end goes longer and longer, and the last step, the one that glide, is the furthest away. Sometimes it is an effective way of making a short step for a more powerful stimulus for the slide.

Each step should be directed to the target and you must pay attention to every step that veers away. Watched from start to finish, even excellent bowlers can go a few strips from the hit rate, but this happens always with the same pattern.

Making a shuffling pass (or passes) or lifting the foot of the approach is an accepted technique. But walking with bent knees for military parades and marching bands or not bowlers.

Take normal precautions for your shoes, especially the sole of the shoe where you slide. Don't leave the bowling section, except when you have absolutely no other option, and if you do, make sure your shoe doesn't pick up water or other substance. Try the approach before your first steps to know how the approach feels with respect to the glide touch.

If you have completed your throw than it's recommended to stay at the line till the cones fall. This in order to analyze your direction together with the fallen cones. So that you are able to make adjustments to create a better swing, effect and direction.

Try to finish your swing by holding your arm almost above your head at the last of the throw. Your elbow comes near the top of your head. It's possible that you get less pins than you don't throw your arm in the air. But it is worth trying, because the throw contains more power. Note that the swing has to be as straight as possible. This means that your arm may not end up before your face but at the right 5 inches between your head and the ball. Pay attention to this because if your arm is right before your face you cant see where the ball is going. If the arm is right before your face than most of the players throw there ball to far to the right, so the direction is disturbed while throwing the bowling-ball.

Bend with your knees slightly at the beginning of the throw and stay on this level then you perform your swing at the end of your swing a little lower to the ground with your bowling ball. This has the following advantages. The ball falls less on the bowling-track, automatically you don't try to force the throw at the last to go lower, the bowling ball is much softer and so it's better to maintain your direction.

If you need to throw a spare with 1 remaining pin at the far left against the gutter, than stick to your normal starting position and change your direction, try to be as straight as possible to it to throw, not too fast, modest without effect and low against the ground, as described above.

If you need to get the extreme right cone than you can try to do the mirror image of what's described above. This means your initial starting position is on the extreme left dot if the pin is at the far right. Then you go very low to the ground and cast a quiet but throwing straight ball which touched the pin a the left side, if you try to throw at right than it will probably end up in the right gutter.

Courtesy and motivation at the bowling track

You like to bowl, then you are probably eager to get started. Set an example by the bowler for you to walk forward, if after the completion of a frame of the approach is coming and encourage others to do likewise.

A few lines of lane courtesy, not always fully understood:
If you wait for a bowler who is playing on an adjacent track, do not go back on the approach, but get off the track.

Do not push the reset button on your job, while the bowler on the track next to you is halfway through the approach.

There is always a priority of right. If 2 players together could throw the player at the right always prevails over the player to his left. Also do not stand too close to wait in order not to influence the player to the right or its concentration.

If you have an 8-10 split (for left-handed a 7 - 9) left when you feel you've played a decent ball, do not stomp, curse or make a drastic adjustment in your game by desperation. Instead, try to accomplish the same in the next frame. PS - If you do the same split after the first, then you can afforded yourself to do all the things we named before.

Remember there are several variables that determine the momentum of a ball as he enters a pocket. Like the weight and speed of the ball, the angle of entry, and the corner of the rotational it goes in. Do not fall into the trap of thinking that more hook always has a stronger effect.

Do not try to reduce the speed of the swing to reduce the speed of the ball. Instead try to reduce the total effort by 20%.

If you get more than one foot (± 30 cm) behind the foul line, then it is not enough to move just a little in the stance. It takes quite some practice for most of the eyes and body as to train you on the right point in relation to the foul line. One way to practice is through over compensate and thus purposely several times in succession at the foul line to come out before you decide what your most ideal place is to approach the end (about 8 to 22 cm from the foul line).

A "chicken-wing" follow-through (with bent elbow) is one in which the elbow is bent beyond the line of the swing and the forearm points in one direction inside the target. It is a proof of a weak release in which the ball is inappropriately turned and pulled out of fear of missing the headpin.

A fanned follow-through where the arm deflect to outward or (for right-handed) swings around to the right is usually the result of a strong release technique and some bowlers use this effectively. The clearest indication of a fundamentally well balanced release is a follow-through that the follows the road in a right goal line and tan points up to the ceiling.

Bend the elbow in the follow-through, but make sure you do not have the effect of a bent elbow gets. If the momentum of the follow-through the elbow does not bend, the release action and hand acceleration through the ball have been too passive.

There is no one who is always playing at his best.
To reach the performance level is a circular motion:

1. You are looking for a key that will enhance performance.
2. You will find that key.
3. You use it and hold him.
4. If you lose the key than your starting again with it.

Continuously work on your technique to approach the fluency and smoothly as possible, but do not overdo it so far that you only play for the form. An attempt to merely a beautiful style show ignores the fact that throwing a precise and powerful ball is a strenuous athletic activity.

If your starting position slightly forward or backward move on the approach that will not entirely predictable effect on your game. It is one of those things you can try if you're in a slump and other changes are not quite working. If you feel that your timing is not quite right, you go forward several inches, if you feel you need to put more force on the ball and in the approach, go back many centimeters.

Throw exercise balls as if each throw is worth a lot of money. Then you throw, if you are under pressure, balls if you're training. Each throw has a victory in itself. Remember that if necessary the cones are beautiful women where you have to score.

Although it is OK to show your excitement with gestures, etc., should know when your exuberance at bay. Do not get so excited that your heartbeat and breathing still be hollow if it is time for your next throw. Also make sure that other players are not hindered by your indulgence, this can be very disturbing for someone who is in full concentration ready to throw a good ball.

Once or twice controlled deep breathing is a method used by many athletes used as a sedative as the pressure increases and the adrenaline flowing through your body.

Even if you're really nervous, well even then do you have a good chance of throwing an effective ball when your are thinking on your techniques and be very focuses on the goal.

Try not to get carried away too much by chance hits and such during a match. 7-10'n whooshing, good 8's, sounding 10-pin and Brooklyn hits, messenger pins and backed-door strikes also forms a part of the game. In the long run the player with the highest percentage of good throws wins.

As a member of a team that plays in the league, remember:
1. The result of the team comes before the individual game where whatever you're involved.
2. Encouragements and cheers are welcome, but only give a player than counsel on his game when it is receptive and immediately benefit.

Right-handed people should try to hit the remaining pin right of center instead of right in the middle, unless you have a complete spare ball straight throws. Of course the 10-pin one is an exception to this rule.

You can use experience that you gained in other sports use in the bowling game and vice verso. Bowlers who also play golf often argue that timing, pace and smooth movement are important for propulsion to produce instead of brute force.

The skills you need for bowling, are not the natural athletic movements (such as running or jumping), but must be learned and practiced constantly. Because the techniques are varied and complicated, players reach their peak in skill only after several years of experience, some continue to improve even after their sporting flowering time.

As practice you can try this: hit the pocket four times one after the other, while you play each time another arrow. This helps you to familiarize yourself with different angles and gives the challenge to look at that part of the track to play if the conditions are not favorable.

If you have a choice, than don't practice with your most powerful ball. Instead, try to strengthen your release technique by introducing a harder and more polished ball, so you have enough lift and rotation on the ball to give the ball more grip on the track.

There is room for creativity in your game. The more you actually know about the basic techniques and the desired mechanical aspects of the approach, the better you will be able to apply your own nuances. And, the more you experiment, how impassioned you'll get into how changes affect your game.

The thumb and fingers in a bowl handle can be compared with the wheels of a tricycle. The front wheel (the thumb) indicates the direction while the rear wheels (the fingers) to give thrust. Remember this especially if you have trouble with the release to remain behind the ball.

Do not discourage other players from that point more than you, or if your day is not as good as always and you make nothing about it.. You are usually in a downward spiral because if you think it will not succeed to obtain a strict it will also fail. If you tell yourself: Now I go for that strike  and you are focus on it, you will work well and before you know you throw one strike after another. It partly depends by your attitude and psyche.