Maybe a little more information would get you some better answers.
First how old are you?
Are you male or female?
Are you tall of short?
What do you weigh?
Do you have any physical problems?
Everyone is different.
If you are a 12 year old girl who weighs 80 lbs. vrs. a 6 foot man who weighs 220 that might make a difference on the answer.
GO SEE A CERTIFIED COACH WHO CAN WATCH YOU BOWL.
Thank you.
Great point on giving more information.
Im 33
Male
5'10
170 pds
no physical problems on my left side, as im left handed.
I currently locating a higher level coach once I can find information on them besides just a name.
Hopefully some of those answers can help me get better ones. Thanks.
Heres two old posts that might help
Here's a post I made to go with that.
There's a old book "Bowling: Knowledge is Key" by Fred Borden in it there's a part where he talks about "vertical placement" (Holding the ball higher or lower).
In it he talks about not holding it higher or lower to increase or decrease speed. But use it as a way of controlling arm swing timing to match the tempo of your feet movements. Raising the ball retards the arm swing in relation to the feet movement, lowering the ball advances the arm swing timing in relation to the feet movements
So Bowlers with a naturally fast tempo, hold the ball lower to match up with their footwork. Those with a slower tempo, hold the ball higher because it retards the swing.
Now if holding the ball higher retards the swing, that would mean it would be basically a longer, slower swing. And so the higher you hold it, the longer and slower the swing be.
Now if your trying to increase speed , using a longer and slower swing wouldn't help. You would wind up having to accelerate your arm through that longer, slower swing. Not only To make up for the speed you lost with the longer swing, but to get that extra speed you wanted in the first place. That would mean adding muscle to the swing, but muscling isn't something we want to do.
Now if you increase or decrease speed using foot work (as Bryan O'Keefe's article suggests). then using a lower ball height for faster and higher one for slower makes makes sense, because it's just matching up the swing timing with the foot work. Plus you can still have a free swing, with no muscles involved to increase the speed.
It just seemed to me that you could infer from Fred's idea above, that if you wanted to increase ball speed by faster footwork. You would have to hold the ball lower. And that is the basic idea put forth by Bryan O'Keefe's article. Increase ball speed by holding ball lower with faster footwork. Hold higher with slower footwork for slower ball speed. So to me it would seem to support Bryan's idea.
It's kind of a old idea, now new again.The "default position" would be where you normally start off at and could be different for everyone.But how do I find a default position?
Most of the time in bowling the classic starting point is with the ball at waist height, forearm parallel to the floor. You would then go from there, seeing if you need to raise or lower the ball in your stance.
Right handed Stroker, high track ,about 13 degree axis tilt. PAP is located 5 9/16” over 1 3/4” up.Speed ave. about 14 mph at the pins. Medium rev’s.High Game 300, High series 798
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Thats some great stuff. Ok now that is well said and makes sense for me. So faster foot speed, along with a low ball location would help me activate my lower body. That is exactly what I trying to figure out how to do without feeling like I was muscling or swinging harder with my arms. Im excited to take this into practice and see if I can get faster footwork with proper tempo, that I can start to see if my speed can pick up. Because im naturally athletic, but after reading that article, I did hold the ball higher with a fairly long backswing, and since i have a free flowing swing i didnt muscle it, resulting in my slow speed.
Im excited to try this out and crossing fingers I can at least get my ball speed up to 15 mphs and build from there.
Thanks for articles and help. All of this is great. Im also still searching for a coach, hate that they dont put their contact info in though.
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