Playing Your "A" Game by Rob Mautner

[Aslan]

http://www.bowlingboards.com/threads...-of-my-bowling

Just realized I forgot the link. For some reason once a thread gets past the first page I can't edit a post.

Is the ball supposed to bounce twice?

[Mike White]

Is the ball supposed to bounce twice?

It's called the anti-Aslan release. Instead of bouncing twice out by the arrows, I get the bounce just a little before the foul line.

The problem is after a 15+ year absence from the game, I lost the timing of when to begin the release motion.

Before I had a chance to fix the release, I hurt my arm.

That made me have to learn a whole different release that didn't put any stress on the arm.

I can throw the ball like in that video again without pain, I just need to find more time to practice so I can fix the timing.

I tried throwing a reactive ball with that plastic release, and the ball missed the 7 pin left.

[Aslan]

It's called the anti-Aslan release. Instead of bouncing twice out by the arrows, I get the bounce just a little before the foul line.

Thats actually true. When I was "chucking" it more...it would bounce at least twice due to the loft.

[Hammer]

To Mike White: Your dropping the ball at the foul line because the pitch in your fingers and thumb are wrong. If the pitch is too much of a reverse pitch you will have to hang onto the ball harder so you don't lose your grip. Your thumb is too loose and you are muscling the ball on the forward swing. When you do that your wrist will break backward and the ball will have trouble staying on your hand in the release area.

[Mike White]

To Mike White: Your dropping the ball at the foul line because the pitch in your fingers and thumb are wrong. If the pitch is too much of a reverse pitch you will have to hang onto the ball harder so you don't lose your grip. Your thumb is too loose and you are muscling the ball on the forward swing. When you do that your wrist will break backward and the ball will have trouble staying on your hand in the release area.

Yes to some of that, and no to others.

Technically I wasn't dropping the ball, what was happening is my hand went through the release process before the ball had reached the bottom of the swing, so after I was done releasing the ball, it was still in a steep downward trajectory.

As soon as this winter league is done, I'm going to put serious practice time into fixing the early release issue.

I think the early part, is also causing more strain on the arm than it did years ago, because the ball (being closer to the bottom of the swing) was traveling faster, and all my release did was create revs, not increase speed.

I've tightened up the thumb, and still had the trajectory problem.

True there was "muscling" of the ball, but it was for the purpose of achieving high revolutions.

The wrist breaking backwards is a function of un-cupping.

As it turns out, my body wasn't in proper shape to maintain the release motion, and ultimately did some damage.

First time the damage occurred in August 2012. Then again in February 2014.

The time between Aug 2012, and Jan 2014, I tried to figure out an effective release using modern equipment.

When not trying to throw high revs, my timing looks much more like when I shoot at a 10 pin.

I find it very easy to throw the ball right through the breakpoint.

When I tried putting revs into a modern ball, it went into the left gutter.