If you could work on one area of your game what would it be?

[fokai73]

Have you checked your footwork? Do you tend to drift to the right when you get too far inside?

I normally walk 1 to 1. I'll have to check to make sure the next time I play deeper than I am now. but I think I have been drifting right a board or two right, but that wasn't even playing "deep". my lay down was 22 to just right of the 4th arrow to the spot down lane.

I have to really check my foot work when not playing the track or up the boards. Also, I went back to a four step approach not to long ago.

[NewToBowling]

I'd like to work on making the pins bottoms more rounded. I'm all in on easy strikes

[Jekyll & Hyde]

if it was me i would have to work on reading the lanes a bit better and making the right adjustments

[Kells]

I would work on shot repeatability. Recently I can't string 2 shots together than in any way resemble each other. And it seems like once I correct a problem, another one surfaces. I know need a good coach but money is pretty tight these days with the holidays quickly approaching

[SAbowler]

There are a plethora of things that I need to work on, but the one thing I think I need the most help with is my timing. I feel like most of my misses are due to poor timing. I've been working on it and I feel like it's coming along, but it still needs more work.

[RobLV1]

There are a plethora of things that I need to work on, but the one thing I think I need the most help with is my timing. I feel like most of my misses are due to poor timing. I've been working on it and I feel like it's coming along, but it still needs more work.

To perfect your timing, simply work on posting every shot you throw... strikes and spares alike. It is impossible to post your shot if your timing is off.

[jab5325]

Footwork is the root of all of my evils. Of course.........I could say the mental game to keep my footwork in check!

[zdawg]

Yeah this is the one I would love explained to me but I've talked to everyone until I'm blue in the face about it and I get something along the lines of hold the ball higher or speed up your foot work or stand farther back all of which are great if you need an extra 1/4 to 1/2 mph. None of which explains why as not a dinosaur (40) I get the speed of a super senior.

I feel your pain, I have the same problem. What I do know for SURE, is that when I feel my slide perfect/balanced and just a perfect throw (you know the one where it comes off your hand and you don't even have to watch to know its a strike) with seemingly no physical effort whatsoever the ball tends to move 2-3 mph faster. The monitor usually records my strike shot at 14 mph, and I throw my spare/straight shots in the 20-22 mph range with very little effort - there is obviously something very wrong I'm doing when I throw a strike shot.

I also know, when some scrawny 150 lb guy walks up and throws the ball 17-18 mph with ease, I get really uber frustrated so much so that I generally turn away when I know somebody like that is bowling - otherwise I get so mad I end up muscling the ball for the rest of the night and it turns into a complete disaster.

I worked on this a tiny bit last lesson with Mark Baker, but there were other issues he wanted to address first, he assured me the speed would come. Unfortunately that last lesson was over a year ago, and I can't really take time off work to drive an hour north on the one or two Tuesday mornings that he comes down somewhat close to my area.

My frustration with not being able to find a coach in the San Diego area is one of the leading factors in my considering giving the game up at the end of the season (unless I get my side business going well enough that I can quit my full time gig - at that point I can take over every Tuesday morning for the rest of my life LOL). Unfortunately most of the coaches on bowl.com in my area don't list contact info, and the 2-3 that do moved out of the area years ago or simply just don't know how to check their email....

[RobLV1]

This last post is full of insights! When you don't try to "throw" the ball and just let it go, speed increases dramatically. At spares, you are not "trying" to hook the ball so you throw it 6-8 mph faster. Now all you have to do is to realize that modern reactive balls hook all by themselves... they don't need any help from you!

[zdawg]

This last post is full of insights! When you don't try to "throw" the ball and just let it go, speed increases dramatically. At spares, you are not "trying" to hook the ball so you throw it 6-8 mph faster. Now all you have to do is to realize that modern reactive balls hook all by themselves... they don't need any help from you!

Yeah I know you're right, I just need to get back to doing practice sessions where I can actually allow myself to just do that and not care about the score. I literally haven't had a practice session in about a year, so the fact that everytime I bowl the score counts reinforces me NOT trying to experiment...it's a vicious cycle