New in ohio

[striker12]

yeah that nice but it takes time to get rid of that nervous part in your body i had it on my first yer but i got rid of it on my first year of bowling too by jsut saying i can do this im one of the best bowlers here even thought i wasn't butit gets rid of it and yeah ik what u mean 31 pins i was 2 pins away in my doubles event from 3rd i could of had it if i did not leave the 7-10 split in the 10th and the singles event dame that was jsut hard all together got 5th but only by 1 pin soo many gutters like i could not belieave it

[Timmytomma]

You throw brooklyn a lot, but its otherwise a good ball.

[striker12]

yeha forgot to say when you go up to the line most thing that happen is you forget everything that has happened and only think on the 2 feet your standing on dont think of bowling just think of a happy palce too take your mind of stuff but also when your ready to bowl think of you target for a second or 2 then go and throw it

[Gordon325]

OMG... watching you bowl was like watching a different looking version of myself bowl.... I also have trouble bending my knee and end up releasing closer to my knee than my ankle... I have also been working on keeping my elbow straighter and have gotten quite a bit better at it.. what helped me was, when you straighten your elbow you can kind of feel when you elbow is locked into place (like the crinkle of your skin on your elbow and the tightening of the skin inside your elbow) it is an unnatural feeling and kind of awkward to hold for a long time (if you aren't used to it) what I would try to do is keep that feeling through out the whole swing, basically TRY to over extend my elbow at first. ( my scores weren't the best and I would ONLY do this when practicing) but after a while it just became natural to keep my elbow extended and not bent on the down swing... It is too the point now where if I do bend my elbow on the down swing I can feel it happen and can almost guarantee my throw will be a bit high.

I too used to bowl with my thumb out, when I would go recreationaly with my friends and use a house ball, once I got my own ball about 4 years ago and had finger inserts put in using my thumb helped tremendously as i could control the swing better. (and my arm wouldnt hurt nearly as much) getting a house ball to hook like a pro shot takes a lot of bicep a kind of caused me to chicken wing every throw...sure it looked cool and impressed my friends that I could do it... but it gave me bad habits that took quite a bit of time to work out.

Keep at it and it will get better in no time!

[Derrick1183]

since that video has been posted I have been trying to get closer to my ankle with my release and have noticed a big difference in the way the ball has been reacting. Summer league is right around and that is the time when I can start getting alot more practice in since they offer 3 free games a day when your in one, so hopefully by next fall ill be able to up my avg. some from what it has been since it has been down for a while now. Thanks for all the advice and will try to keep this updated on my progress.

[billf]

The video editing is wonderfully done lol. What's funny is even in person I never noticed the poor release height. The King of the Hill tournament was fun but next time we need to finish #1 & 2.