your form now?

[GeoLes]

A bowling coach is a good place to start. If you can't afford private lessons, ask around about small group lessons. One of the lanes I frequent, Brunswick Zone Hazlet Lanes has Monday night workshops from 7 - 9PM ast $10.00 a head, lane fees incluced. (just bring you ball, shoes, and a "dime"). With so many variables, it helps to have good simple basics to focus on. I also suggest you go look at the videos on YouTube. Some of them are quite qood.

[DrOcktagon]

It's always evolving, but I had to do a complete re-design of my swing when I was about 13 or so.....

I was averaging in the mid 180's when I was 12-13. One night, while bowling on a very competetive junior league, I heard an audible pop in my right shoulder. I tried to shoot the spare and it was the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. It turns out I had either torn or severely strained my rotator cuff. I went through many months of rehab with a chiropractor before I could bowl again. When I finally started back up, everything felt off, and my teammates told be I was side-arming the ball. My average also took a dip into the 160's/170's for a couple of years before I started getting back to where I had been. Eventually I got my average up into the low 200's.

It took quite a few years of working on my swing to re-develop it fully, but it has always been drastically different than before the injury. Now that I'm coming back after an 11 year layoff, I was concerned I would have to start all over again, but it really is like riding a bike. I'm pretty sure there will always be something here or there about my swing that I will have to work to correct, though.

[sukeetoshyoo88]

seems like almost everyone is constantly working on something to become better.

i asked cause i seem to have some pretty drastic changes to my form.
i just started bowling seriously about a year ago, but i always feel like, "ohh this feels good im gonna stick with this" but eventually end up trying something else.
and i find that some techniques or styles have their benefits.
like cupping the whole swing makes me a little more accurate but ball speed suffers for me, and is sometimes strenuous on the down swing.
cocking is less strenuous but uncocking at release is sometimes and i throw the ball wide.
and what im doing now is cupping at the bottom, and i seem to keep my revs lose a bit of accuracy compared to cocking the whole swing (for now im still working on it) but ball speed comes up and feels less strenuous.

[SmilingBowler]

I'm looking forward to recording my form this Sunday morning (thanks for the tips DrOcktagon) and maybe I'll see some similarities to these guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=N5nnDbV0znE

[GeorgiaStroker]

My form has had to evolve many times since I started bowling. When I first came into the sport there was no such thing as a synthetic lane, or at least no one around here had ever heard of it. All the house balls were hard rubber. (remember the ones that were black with pink spots all over?) when I bought my first ball, polyester was all the rage on tour (in balls and pants). Soon after, urethane balls appeared and suddenly you had to change your delivery again. Then the synthetic lanes became the norm, then resin balls.... So with each change came a little evolution in form. Not necessarily a big change at once, but to look where I started way back then to where I am now you wouldn't think it's the same bowler.

[billf]

Which style? When I crank that hasn't changed much the past 18 months. Stroker and Tweener I'm always tinkering with especially hand positions. With adjustments being so critical I want to be able to flawlessly go from playing straight up the 1 board to moving deep inside without a hitch. UJntil I average 300 I will always be evolving.
To help with this there are nights where I will play each lane totally different. To ease this I usually play deep on the left lane so the ball return won't be a huge issue as it was in the past when I couldn't Stroke it accurately. Of course being a Stroker with a rev rate over 400 isn't normal anyway but that's where adjusting axis rotation comes into play.

On adjustments; Tuesday I played a guy with a similar style as what I was using. He moved 5 boards all night. I moved 18 through the night. The difference is our rev rates. With the lower rev rate his ball was able to read the lane easier with less push past the pattern. What was funny was afterwards when we were talking and he said he would love my rev rate while I was hoping I could have taken more revs off my delivery.

[Rdmonster]

my style is....that I have no style LOL.

Seriously though.... I learned to bowl a basic hook back in the 90's while in college. I knew nothing about bowling. Fast forward to October of this year. Joined a league after golf league ended. Got a new ball...still knew nothing. My beginning average was 126.

I read a bunch on this site...watched a bunch of videos and practiced alot. I've pushed my average up to about 160 while trying to learn as much as possible.

I do not know how fast I throw it or what my rev rate is. My biggest challenges have been trying to get my approach down.....free up my arm swing and relax my hand.

I feel I am getting better and having a properly drilled ball is going to help big time.

[noeymc]

i am always changing mine trying new things listining to what other people think will help me so i dont think ive ever stoped changing my form