Need spare shooting help

[GoodGorilla]

Just an update. I am making slow progress on getting better at the spare shots. I am being more consistant at throwing the ball where I want to even if it was a bad judgment. I am still trying to keep my elbow strait, but latly I am accelereating my swing after it has passed my right knee and it is making the ball go straiter. I still have alot of aspects I am still experimenting with but it's getting better. Having my wrist back really screws me up, so should I get that worked out before anything else?

[Tampabaybob]

The question is, how's your wrist feeling? Are you using a wrist brace to alleviate the pain you had? Your back of your wrist should be lined up with your arm so it's a flat surface.
That means you would be keeping your wrist straight. Is that what you're doing? You say having your wrist back; are you breaking your wrist back ?

The acceleration on your down swing shouldn't really be happening. You want gravity only on your swing, with a little bit of power at the point of release. That's your explosion point where you'll turn the ball with your wrist and fingers only (no thumb - it comes out straight and up towards the ceiling).

Bob

[GoodGorilla]

My wrist feels alot better now. If anything my fingers get sore, and my thigh. I'm not accelerating on the down swing, I accelerate after the ball passes my leg just before teh release. I have been keeping my wrist straight.

[GoodGorilla]

I have not been breaking my wrist backwards for the spare shooting, but parker bohn III says to do it, and another book that I am reading. When I try to do it I just suck and the ball goes some random place. No, I have not got a wrist device. However I am alot more gental with the ball when I am rotating it on the strikes, I kinda just let go of the ball while focusing on the angle of the release point. I have not been rotating the ball on the spare shot. Just tring to throw it as strait as possib le.

[GoodGorilla]

For some reason this forum will give me errors trying to edit my posts. Anyhow, On my strike release I do not accelerate or hit up on the ball anymore. I just rely on the uncupping process to generate the revs, and getting under the ball. When my wrist was hurting I was hitting up on the ball at the end and accelerating at the end.

[Tampabaybob]

On your 6 and 10 pin shots, when you break your wrist backwards, have your thumb on top of the ball (as you would for a straight ball) and on release let your thumb come straight up. This is how I throw my plastic ball at the corner shots and get no hook at all. Also every couple of nights I also put a coat of polish on the plastic ball to make sure "it won't hook."

Bob

[GoodGorilla]

I think getting my spares down is going to take some time, and isn't going to happen quickly. Today I did have a few games where I hit all my spares without breaking my wrist. Last night I was really trying to break my wrist on the release, and it went pretty well. So far it seems my biggest problem is keeping the weight of my body straight forward while having the momentum of my body strait forward - is it supose to be like this even for strike shots? I don't really pay attention to my body momentum for strikes, they just seem to happen when I'm lined up right.

[noeymc]

i use a low hook ball for spares and i kinda just go up there and throw the ball i dont miss alot of spares unless its a spare i use the arrows and i know how much the ball hooks the hardest spare for me to pick up is the ones where u got like 2/8 or 3/9 i have a med rev rate

[75lockwood]

When i shoot spares i spread my index and pinky fingers further and full roll the ball, making cup irrelevant

[J Anderson]

The main thing is to figure out a system that works rfor you gust lost power