Larger bowlers

[striker12]

yeah storm he is but main thing about tall people they jsut ahve to find there right spot and it depends on there flexability on gettign closer to the ground cause if they over power them selfs they will hurt them selfs,

ik that cause i use to run track and field and i over powered my body and screwed up my legg but have not got it fixed yet cause i will be off bowling for 2 years if i do

[martin]

i have a friend who is tall and he has no problem getting low.. it just comes with practice..

[JerseyJim]

I'm 6' and about 220, and manage to get fairly low. My teammates go 6'3", 6'4" and 6'2 at 280 lbs. They all average well above 200, and the funny part is that they stand closer to the foul line than either my short teammate, 5'7" and me. I set up about 15" inside the last row of dots on the approach. The big guys are about a foot closer to the foul line than I stand.

[striker12]

yeah bowl ik some people that are like that too me im at the dot closest to the foul line and i do a 5 step approach but my first step is farly short then the rest are all abit longer it jsut helps me get abit more speed when im on my approach, i have tryed a 4 step but i just cant do it cause i keep messing up my stride.

[bowl1820]

I'm 6' and about 220, and manage to get fairly low. My teammates go 6'3", 6'4" and 6'2 at 280 lbs. They all average well above 200, and the funny part is that they stand closer to the foul line than either my short teammate, 5'7" and me. I set up about 15" inside the last row of dots on the approach. The big guys are about a foot closer to the foul line than I stand.

This could be a whole other thread, but talking about the larger guys standing closer to the foul line. I think most people stand too far back from the foul line.

Once when I went to Kegel ( I'm 6'3" , I use a 4 step approach) they showed me how I was too far back ( I was behind the last row of dots ). When watched from the side on the video, they showed me my approach and how my stride got longer and longer. This can get you off balance, because your legs are so far apart. Also you kind of run to the foul line.

So they moved me up by the first set of dots, I still took the same number of steps, but they were more equally spaced.

When I got home I started watching others approaches and saw them doing the same thing. Like one guy he was shorter than me and took 4 steps. He was standing right on the end of the approach, he looked like he flew to the foul line.