Type of folow through..

[Ball99999]

I think most people use a handshake straight up to your ear follow through.. they turn the ball, let the two fingers turn the ball and then come out. Pete Weber for example. But then some bowlers will let their fingers flow through the ball in to the left. Their hand crosses to the left in the follow through and they wave it across their face. I've seen Chris Barnes do this.

I can do it myself, I can even really jerk it through real hard or go soft, the ball still follows its path because of the straight swing but.. I get LESS hook when I do that. So why do pros do that?

*follow

[billf]

You get less hook doing that because you're cupping/uncupping. Chris Barnes, Sean Rash and others that do it use the cock/uncock release. Using either, I can't let my follow through go to my left like that and hit my mark.

[Ball99999]

Well I guess a better question is, are they lifting with their fingers? Or are they letting the ball and their fingers freely separate?

[Tampabaybob]

they're actually rotating the all with a combination of wrist and fingers. It happens so fast it's hard to see sometimes, but they put an enormous amount of rotation on the ball in a split second. I agree with Bill, bringing your arm forward in front of your face takes a lot of practice in order to get the ball to your target. Most bowlers would end up pulling the ball because they would release too late.

Bob

[Doghouse Reilly]

I go with astraight arm and the handshake, trying to keep the swing free and leading my ring finger through my target line.

[Ball99999]

I just learned that follow through helps dictate axis rotation, straight forward for 90• and to 1oclock for 45•

So now i REALLY don't know what those guys are doin

[billf]

Now I'm going to have to check my follow through of my different releases and axis rotations. I was pretty sure the follow through was the same.
To make sure I'm understanding you, you let your arm follow through to the 1:00 position, away from your body????

[Ball99999]

http://bowlingknowledge.info/images/...nt_release.pdf

so basically, 90degree have arm parallel with gutter, 45degree have arm pointing a little to the right of the gutter.

[bowl1820]

http://bowlingknowledge.info/images/...nt_release.pdf

so basically, 90degree have arm parallel with gutter, 45degree have arm pointing a little to the right of the gutter.

The 90 & 45 degree's in the article is referring to the rotation on the ball and the hand position used to give that rotation, Not by the follow through.

The classic follow would have the arm basically stay on the same plane as the swing, inline with your target path.

Using the pendulum analogy, when you watch a pendulum swing back and forth. The pendulum swings back and forth on the same plane.

[Ball99999]

The 90 & 45 degree's in the article is referring to the rotation on the ball and the hand position used to give that rotation, Not by the follow through.

The classic follow would have the arm basically stay on the same plane as the swing, inline with your target path.

Using the pendulum analogy, when you watch a pendulum swing back and forth. The pendulum swings back and forth on the same plane.

sorry, checking again, specifically

"To achieve this release, you want to imagine your thumb, after exiting the ball,
continuing to a reference point, 1 o’clock, in the follow-through. Specifically,
the bowler will imagine their thumb traveling to 1 o’clock (right-handed)"

makes it sound to me like if you were looking at a giant clock, you are following through to that point.
So if you were to let off the ball on the 45 degree release, your hand is going to stop rotating at that point and come up and it's definitely going to be around 30 degrees tilted right.

If you're not going to put any lift on the ball with your fingers and just come through it that's where the hand naturally will end up.

A lot of this is a bit above my experience level, but a couple weeks ago I tried a 90 degree release with a flatspot followthrough straight up, and it did hook more than I could handle, while last week I played 45 degree and it worked relatively well. Mind you I didn't actually see the ball spinning directly from right to left so I'm not sure HOW they really get that perpendicular roll. Anything is good for me considering the problems I had with side roll a few weeks ago and before.