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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