Best Ball for a Leftie

[striker12]

ummm john not saying anythingn about you or thesheibs comments but i think thesheibs measn that lefts have a advantage cause there more righys bowling then leftys soo when you get 7/8 rights and 1/8 leftys then the right side of the lane will lose oil aster and the ball would go anywhere but as for 1 lefty he could stick with 1 line threw the total of 3 games i think thats what he means by a natural hook.

if im wroung then i took my best guess at it.

i have played agent alot of leftys and they have beat me everytime mostly cause they are the only ones going up the left side of the lane and i carry my ball out to the 5 board from the 35 board

[TheSheibs]

Striker, you are partially right. I as a lefty do have the advantage that you mentioned. As for a natural hook, I was referring to 10-20 years ago before the oil patterns got crazy and the core of the ball started to get all the different types of curves that make people with little experience curve the ball like a pro or someone who has been bowling for years. As you know, most bowlers start with the ball resting on top of their hand, not to the side or anything. With doing the "hand shake" throw, your hand naturally puts some spin on the ball by rotating 90 degrees from horizontal to vertical towards the head pin. Back 10-20 years, this was all a lefty would need to do to get the necessary spin that causes the ball to curve. However, with all the different cores that balls have this has become something that is forgotten. It is what made lefties competitive against righties before the different cores and oil patterns started to be used. If you've never had a natural lefty explain how they bowl, you probably don't know any of this. When a sport is dominated by righties, you never hear about lefties and how we do what we do. Some of it IS simply a mirror image of a righty. However there are some things that a lefty does that a righty doesn't do or couldn't do with the same results. For example a lefty can stand to the far left or right and throw cross lane to pick up the 7 AND 10 pins. Where it's harder for a righty to do that and I've been told by some righties that they couldn't do that no matter how hard they tried.

[striker12]

oh ok at least i was close i have done lefty before when i hurt my right wrist but for me as a righting i use to beable to stand all the way left and shoot my 7 pins but know i cant cause i have hit the ball return soo many times soo i have had to move left 5 boards and im able to do it but for the 10 pins thats a different story.

for the 10 pins i stride left and i stad outside of the dots when i do it when i slid im right right at the thing not sure of the name of it but it devided the gutter on both lanes no clue of the name for that thing but when my arm comes down im throwing over the gutter but i dont toss the ball i let is down like normal but i create alot of speed with my spares but not as fast at palarma but close like it just sometimes go threw the gutter like it was never there but im slowing it down and moving back to the right abit to get my acruacy back because a few months ago i hit my elft ankle with my bowling ball hard enoph that it pulled my foot right into the air but lucky my right leg was not full on the kick back i was able to save my self, thats a different story for another time.


but tell you this i had 1 bowling style for my spare shots that i cant do no more but i was the only person in the world from what i was told that ever did it, i use to shoot my spares with just my thumb, all i had to do to hit spares/splits was spin the ball in my hand to a different spot and then go and throw it if i wanted a good hook i would put my fingers over the finger holes want less i would bring my hand down 90 degrees and for streght right on the other side of the fingers holes(srry could not figure out how to spell one word to put in there) and for a back up ball i was 90 degrees left of the fingers helped me with hitting the 4-7-10 split made it a few times, but know since i have a high backswing i cant do that no more, use to have a really low back swing that i ended up musleing the ball when i threw a ball soo had to go back to basic with a new swing .