Video: Your advice on my bowling is welcomed!

[Briantime]

Hi there,



New user here and have been reading the boards for a while now and enjoying the content. I have just gotten back into bowling after a long layoff and would like to tune up my game before signing up for leagues.

I have had 5 practice sessions in the last two weeks. I am averaging 151. According to the screen at the alley I bowl at, my ball speed is about 16.5. I get very little break on the ball and feel like I am struggling with my release a bit. I shot 3 short vids of me throwing yesterday. Please excuse the quality as I had to prop my phone up against a towel :-) Hopefully they will give a look and enough information to offer some observations.

Thank you in advance!

Fyi...

I am bowling with a Columbia Freeze, 15lb. Finger tip drilled. I do use a wrist support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4EaNwPDjrk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8yvhq9ls0Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luS_VEDqpqs

[Tony]

I do not profess to be a coach in any way so my comments will be limited.
Just a comment on the video's themselves, it was good to take a few videos, for future video's it might be helpful if in addition to the upper body that the footwork is visible. It would also be advantageous to have more than one angle, one directly behind the bowler as well as one from the side view, this will provide more information to the coaches on the site.
It does appear you end up releasing the ball a little ways back from the foul, but that could be an illusion based on the view.

[Blacksox1]

Welcome to the boards, enjoy yourself.

[JasonNJ]

Welcome to the boards. From the video we can't see your feet but it looks like your feet are pretty square with one another. I would suggest you setup with your left foot a little further in front of your right foot, this will open your hip more to help the ball clear your hip on your back swing. Also you have a 4 step approach and your timing is very late. You don't start your push away until your 2nd step. Your push away should start at the same time you start taking a step with your right foot. Everything else I think looks ok, your back swing looks pretty straight, you are coming around a little bit on the release but I think that is caused by your late timing.

Hope that helps.

[Briantime]

Thank you. That does make sense to what I have been feeling. I always feel like I am getting to the line and having to pull the ball through, which tires me out after a couple of games...

[Amyers]

I'm not a coach either but if your wanting the ball to hook with your limited rev rate and less agressive ball your going to need to play farther right. You are throwing the ball through the heaviest portion of the oil with your current line. Did you move there because the ball wouldn't hook? Try moving you feet to the right and your target to the right.

[fordman1]

Move right 5-10 boards with your feet and target. But a ball that is very aggressive. Other than that hire a coach. Or try all three.

[mc_runner]

That's what I noticed too - you're using a ball that isn't super aggressive, out over the middle of the lane where all the oil is. If you move right the ball will interact more with the dry areas of the lane and hook more (and probably drive better).

[NewToBowling]

That was what I was going to say. You're rolling over the heaviest oiled part of the lane. And don't worry so much about hook now as long as you are consistently hitting the pocket and knowing how to adjust if you miss left/right.

[got_a_300]

It appears to me in the videos that you are throwing the ball
straight up the lane between the 3rd and 4th arrow and as
the others have said you are in the heaviest part of the oil.

The Columbia Freeze is not a very aggressive ball to begin
with so move your eyes / feet / and target to the right a
few boards or even maybe get yourself a more aggressive
ball so you can play more in the middle of the lane where
you are trying to play now.