June 22 practice

[the_halfie]

Dude that last split pickup was AWESOME! Nice shot! Now just work on not leaving those so much, unless you want to continue practicing them then by all means go for it

[Tampabaybob]

Well, Sir William, I see a couple of thing that might help you a bit. You seem to be falling over to the right on several of the shots as or just after your release. That tells me your feet a just a bit too fast and your hand/release is getting to the line a little late. When you lose your balance at that point, the easiest thing to do is to slow up that first step. (just a little bit) I also notice a bit of a hop at the foul line on a couple of shots. Definitely want that to stop. The hopping will change your drop point of release by a couple of boards to the right of where your "anticipated" release point should be. What that does is change the angle of the ball in relationship to your point of target. Usually that will bring on a high hit and if you're lucky only a 4 pin. Other than that......not bad.

[billf]

Bob, I noticed that my torso isn't angled correctly putting my swing slot out of position still. Funny how it felt like it was straight behind me. Thus the swing slot was too far out from my ankle. I'm wondering how much of that is causing some of the imbalance issues given the fact I'm a bit top heavy lol.
I still believe I need to get the ball into the swing a tad quicker as long as my backswing is going to be at that height. Ensuring the first two steps were full steps left the feeling that I was flying to the line. Making the footwork go at an angle as Joe Slowinski suggests takes some getting use to. I kept hitting my toe off my opposite heel.

[Tampabaybob]

It just seems to me that your feet are too fast and a bit slower would keep you balanced better.

[billf]

Any better?

[J Anderson]

Any better?

Looks pretty good from here in CT. Seriously, your balance arm wasn't lazy and your right foot stayed on the ground. I'll let Bob do his own complaining the that you didn't post the shot until the ball dropped into the pit.

[billf]

At least it was past the arrows before I moved lol
John, as soon as I moved I told myself Bob would give me heck for moving.

[Tampabaybob]

Any better?

YES !!

Looks pretty good from here in CT. Seriously, your balance arm wasn't lazy and your right foot stayed on the ground. I'll let Bob do his own complaining the that you didn't post the shot until the ball dropped into the pit.

You caught that too John ???? LOL

At least it was past the arrows before I moved lol
John, as soon as I moved I told myself Bob would give me heck for moving.

One of these days' I'll have my daughter shoot a video of my approach and give you guy's a chance to pick me apart also. 90% of the time, I usually can & do stay balanced all the way through the shot, however, if I'm in a heated match during my league, I usually will do some strange follow through techniques "after" releasing the ball. Due to very high adrenaline rush at the line ! This also works a bit on psyching out ones' opponent in certain cases. I've been know to pull many "tricks" outa my bag. All's fair in love, war and bowling !!