Quest for Good Bowlers

[bobforsaken]

Developing bad habits is the issue I fight with it most. I can change my release or alter my footwork to help on playing on poor conditions and score better but often that leads me to fixing things later when back on league conditions. I try not to do that.

Pretty much exactly what I'm talking about and what I think has really slowed my development in many ways.. although playing burned up lanes has given me an opportunity to get much more comfortable playing deeper... I should say when I'm good enough to switch between releases, add loft.. alter speed etc.. I guess it won't matter much.. but for a developing player, those changes to the game that you have to unlearn during regular conditions really screws me up.

[RobLV1]

I bowl on whatever I can get, but I think it's good to bowl on challenging conditions. I bowled on lanes so beat up this week it forced me to stand on 40 and play out to 14. I have never played that deep before, but I found out what my new Melee Jab can do!

If you are standing 40 and throwing out to 14, then you are either walking considerably right, or the ball is way out from your body. In either case, you need to learn to walk straight and keep a tight line when you move left.

[Mike White]

If you are standing 40 and throwing out to 14, then you are either walking considerably right, or the ball is way out from your body. In either case, you need to learn to walk straight and keep a tight line when you move left.

Just because you don't understand it, doesn't make it impossible for someone else to do it.

[HowDoIHookAgain]

Since it's summer, and I really don't have a league going (the nearest center that has a good league over summer is about a 35 minute drive away), I have no choice but to count every game I can squeeze in on the "lanes" I bowl on. Keep in mind these lanes are terrible, and I'm still trying to perfect the new ball I got a month ago (though I have been doing better as of late). So I'm almost forced to practice on dry, terrible lane conditions, as I can't get a license and drive wherever I want to.

But, on the plus side of things, at least I have some time to get in open bowling so I don't get rusty before school ball starts up again!

[J Anderson]

If you are standing 40 and throwing out to 14, then you are either walking considerably right, or the ball is way out from your body. In either case, you need to learn to walk straight and keep a tight line when you move left.

He didn't say how far down lane he was hitting 14.

[mc_runner]

Yeah, it sounds like his breakpoint was 14.

[dougb]

Yeah, it sounds like his breakpoint was 14.

My breakpoint was 14 (right next to the marker arrow) and I checked my foot position at the foul line after every shot. I tend to drift a few boards left but never right. I was standing in front of the left gutter after I posted my shots.

[RobLV1]

Normally when we talk about where we are standing and where we are "throwing out to," we are talking about where are feet are and where we are looking at the arrows. If this was something different, then I certainly stand corrected. If we do not use the same terminology among us, how are we supposed to communicate?

[NewToBowling]

Normally when we talk about where we are standing and where we are "throwing out to," we are talking about where are feet are and where we are looking at the arrows. If this was something different, then I certainly stand corrected. If we do not use the same terminology among us, how are we supposed to communicate?

Sounds like dougb clarified things.

[vdubtx]

Don't think dougb clarified things. Was his breakpoint really at the arrows 15 ft down lane? Or is he bowling on lanes that have the same set of marker arrows further down the lane?

When I go for practice, I don't really care what the scores are. As long as I get my approach, timing and release feeling good and repeatable. I work with every ball in my bags and also shoot at just 10 pins for at least a full game.