I discovered the same thing about my straight ball. I always seem to have a bit of annoying side spin on the ball that breaks late downlane. By keeping the elbow in, the wrist remains turned out and the ball rolls end-over-end with zero side spin.
Thanks, Bob. Yes, I remember my bowling coach when I was a kid telling me to do just that. Very true, and very necessary. I did much better last night in league staying behind the ball; only once or twice all night did I really let the ball slide right off the hand.
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I discovered the same thing about my straight ball. I always seem to have a bit of annoying side spin on the ball that breaks late downlane. By keeping the elbow in, the wrist remains turned out and the ball rolls end-over-end with zero side spin.
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Glad that worked. If you get a chance to practice, from your starting position focus on your hand and try to "feel" where your thumb is all the way through your swing. Think of it as watching your hand (in your minds eye) all the way through your swing. Getting used to "feeling" this will eventually help you to do it automatically. Good luck, let me know how you're doing.Originally Posted by zman1974
Bob
"There truly is such a thing as a bad night and when these doomed evenings arrive you can't avoid them. But there's a bright side to this, it's that bad nights won't kill you, and sometimes will make you a little smarter."
Tampabaybob has that right about focusing on your hand when you make your approach. I do that at practice. I concentrate on feeling my hand staying behind the ball on the backswing and on the forward swing all the way to the release area which at that point your thumb should exit quickly and then your hand turns an inch or two to the inside to put revs on the ball as the weight of the ball pulls off of your fingertips. You could put your focus on any part of your technique. Focusing on my hand at practice to keep it behind the ball works for me. I will do it on league night also because it is easy to get lazy and turn the hand too early before it reaches the release area.
Hammer, that's a great thing to do in practice. Eventually your muscle memory will take over and you won't have to focus as much on that. You'll just automatically do it. And if you do have a problem on a particular night in the league, it's one of those things in your "bag of tricks" that you can pull out to be sure you're doing correctly.
Bowling balls are drilled so your thumb will exit the ball cleanly when it's facing the pins. Any other variation, will upset the roll of the ball and sometimes have an adverse affect on how your thumb's going to feel at the end of the night !!
Bob
"There truly is such a thing as a bad night and when these doomed evenings arrive you can't avoid them. But there's a bright side to this, it's that bad nights won't kill you, and sometimes will make you a little smarter."
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