Practice

[fortheloveofbowling]

This is a great practice regiment if you have say 4 different balls. Get a pair and bowl 4 games at the same time with all the balls. At the end of the first game go down to the 2 balls that were the winners. Then bowl 2 more games with those and get a champion. This makes it fun and a competition and also teaches you the difference in your equipment and forces you to play different parts of the lane with the different balls. Also there is a great game you can play for shooting 7 and 10 pins called low ball. You try to pick the 7 or the 10 on the first shot and the other on the second. Obviously a perfect score would be 20. If you throw it the gutter it scores as 10 and if you knock down more than 1 on a shot it counts as whatever you knocked down. Just some ideas to mix things up.

[tccstudent]

When practing I like to play atound the world I think it helps to build a veristle game

[vdubtx]

When practing I like to play atound the world I think it helps to build a veristle game

And that is what exactly?

[tccstudent]

Around the world you start with your foot on the first dot and you stay there until you strike then you move to the next dot until you strike firat person all the way down and back again is the winner

[Mike White]

I don't know of any lanes around Kansas City Missouri that have the ability to set up 10 pins only. IF YOU DO have that ability do you get 20 throws for a game? (NOT JUST 10 for the linage)

To get your money's worth, have them set up the 7-10 split.

[Shaneshu87]

Shaneshu what differences do you see between throwing cupped vs. uncapped. I typically throw cupped have thrown some uncapped but my accuracy is usually not good that way but I figure its due to lack of practice

when i cup i get my ideal rev on the ball, however as lane break down i can uncup and force a smooth release to bring down my revs. that way i dont have to stand in front of ball return

[JohnnyG]

Practice playing angles on the lane which you will eventually encounter in competition in addition to playing your favorite or most natural angles. Practice making a series of "parallel adjustments" which require adjusting your feet alignment and your eye alignment at the on-lane target and move across the practice lane in both directions as to better familiarize yourself with playing angles not comfortable to your eye. A good goal is to make certain there is no angle targeting the break point with which you are unfamiliar.