Working on my form.

[RoccoRock]

I've been working on my form one handed. Not concentrating so much on results, just mechanics. What do you guys think?

[J Anderson]

Much better than I expected after reading though most of your "I give up" posts. Timing looks about right to me. You're balanced at the line. The only flaws I see are not much knee bend, and a bit of a loop in your swing.

Actually, having only read the title of the thread I was expecting to see you throwing two-handed. By the way I sympathize you about the flack you get about not sticking with one way. I've been told by one of my friends that I should just give up on bowling left-handed, "you're not that good at it". The way I see it is that I'm about 40 pins per game better left handed than when I started, and almost as good as I was right handed 5 years ago.

[RoccoRock]

I have a two handed video I may post later, it's not pretty, but it's powerful. I bowled practice once hand, but two handed in league.

My main focus in this video was to correct some of the major flaws I was in my video from two weeks ago. I can't post that video, cause it's on my other camera. I wanted to fix my pace, my timing, my slide/ balance, and my swing plane. If I watch both videos back to back, it looks like to different people. This is by far my best form one handed. I'll keep working on it.

[noeymc]

i see a few thing imo

you step off with your left foot should be the other way around but i wouldnt try to change footwork with out a coach imo

bend your knees =D

also kinda of hard to tell but are you going over top of your ball? (hand at release) if so how consistent it is that for you ? you might wanna try like turning your wrist till a finger is point at your mark

but you do look good =D keep it up

[RoccoRock]

I'm curious, how is stepping with my left foot first wrong? I use a 5 step approach, like a lot of bowlers. Maybe I'm misreading your post and you might something else.

[noeymc]

thats my fault i cant count thought u where doing a 4 step 5 step = step off with sliding foot =D my bad sorry about that

[RoccoRock]

As far as my hand at release, I'm not on top of the ball, my hand starts behind the ball, then rotates, and I come off the side a lot. It looks a lot like Pete Weber. I just wish I had some of his skill and talent. I worked hard today on my release. I tend to miss my target two to three inches right almost every time. Today, after messing around with tape, and a few other things, I was consistently able to hit my target. Still not a lot of knee bend, I'll work on that next time out.

[eugene02]

what i see the video is a pretty good form.. just some knee bend that isn't there and the right leg should slide more over... 5 steps approach are okay.. i used to have 4 steps only.. now i changed to 5 steps also.. no idea why but with 5 steps i tend to be more consistent.. maybe because of the timing that i have to lift my backswing (power player here).. so yup... i'll try to get a video up with my Diva next week when i film it..

[billf]

Not too shabby. Keep working on getting smoother. What are your goals for style one-handed? Do you want more power? Reaction? Axis rotation?

[RoccoRock]

What are your goals for style one-handed?

To not suck so much. It's all about accuracy and consistency. That's all I care about. If my rev rate is 200 or 600 I could care less, as long as it's the same, and I throw it in the same spot each time. The next ball after this video, I flirted with the gutter. My goal in this practice was just balance, pace, timing, and keeping the ball in line with my head. I tend to miss 2 to 3 inches right of my target at about 10 feet. My old backswing was not straight, and I didn't keep the ball in line with my head, it was tilted. I figured that's probably one of the reasons I miss right most of the time. I'm still working on everything. It's frustrating to be doing this as long as I have been, and seemingly getting worse. I pretty much scrapped everything at this point and started over. I'm happy with what I'm doing, I'm just afraid of what's going to happen when I start keeping score. That's why I 2 hand in the league now, I know I can score with it. I can suck with it too, but suck less often, and not as bad as one hand. It's only 2 weeks, but I'm averaging 195 two handed. With one hand, I could not find a 2 week stretch where I averaged anywhere near that. I never averaged above 174 one hand, and never had a 600 series, never had back to back good games, or good weeks. I'm hoping to change that, because when I'm 40 in 4 years, I don't want to be 2 handing.