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    Tried to get a look tonight but I found that I'm stopping about 2' before the foul line and also have a hop 95% of the time so can't tell where my foot is when I release the ball. Is there an effect from stopping that far from the foul line? We have another guy in our league that takes 2 steps and stops about 6' before the foul line and averages about 205. No idea why he does it but he is a pretty decent bowler.
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    Quote Originally Posted by boatman37 View Post
    Tried to get a look tonight but I found that I'm stopping about 2' before the foul line and also have a hop 95% of the time so can't tell where my foot is when I release the ball. Is there an effect from stopping that far from the foul line? We have another guy in our league that takes 2 steps and stops about 6' before the foul line and averages about 205. No idea why he does it but he is a pretty decent bowler.
    If you’re stopping 2’ from the line you’re giving everyone else, except for the guy who stops 6’ short, the advantage of a lane that’s shorter than yours. You run the risks of : tripping the foul light, hitting a dry area before getting into the oil, ball reading the lane too early, the ball losing too much energy before hitting the pins, and the obvious disadvantage of trying to hit something farther away than everyone else.

    Stopping well short of the line is fairly common among older bowlers. As we age we tend to shorten our stride but it happens so gradually that we don’t think about moving up on the approach.

    The hop in some cases is just a bad habit. More often it’s a case of the body acting reflexively to protect itself. In other words, the slide stops and the knee reaches a point where your subconscious senses that it will be injured if it bends any moor, and signals your quads to contract sharply to protect it.
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