Bought a bowling book

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Ill have to see if i can find this book, i read the parker bohn and some other books.

[beerframe]

I read through the parker bohn III book, but didnt like it's 30 dollar price tag.

[billf]

I picked up Bowling Execution by John Jowdy at Barnes and Noble yesterday as a birthday gift for myself. It's very in depth and interesting. Anyone else ever read this material? And has it helped? I can't afford lessons so I figured this would be the next best thing. Heading to the lanes tomorrow, might take the book along.

I have the actual book and have read it several times over the 7 years I've had it. Last year I downloaded it on my Kindle and bookmarked several key areas so I could refresh my memory at the lanes.

[ursus]

After 3 months I finally finished the book last night and now I need to return it and pay my healthy overdue book fee to the library. Now I would like to see if I can find the Mark Baker book.

[Stamps]

I bought "Bowling Execution" and "Focused for Bowling" about a year and a half ago......for me, "Focused for Bowling" was WAY more helpful (although it's more about mental stuff than technique.......if you're looking for a book just for technique, Bowling Execution is probably better).

I have been toying with buying "Focused for Bowling." Glad to know it was helpful so I might have to get it now.

[Fatal]

I'm also reading bowling execution version 2. Focusing on the game seems like a good read too.

[JerseyJim]

Does anyone know of a good book on ball drilling, layout etc apart from Bill Taylors "Fitting and drilling a bowling ball"

Try Chip Zielke's (sp?) Revolutions II.

[rongarm]

I remember when Mark Baker just started out giving lessons. He at that time was not real popular as a instructor. But after a few yrs. he studied the game much more indepth and has become one of the country's best. I believe he still teaches in Orange County (So. Calif) and other places as well. One of my friends got his book "game changer" and thinks it is s pretty good book. I sit and read.

[bayedup84]

beerframe...how was the book? you see a difference after reading it?

[AZBowla]

We gotta do something about the spammers that keep cropping up in here. Yikes.

Getting us back on topic, just like anything else, too much information can be a bad thing. It's very easy to fill up a bookshelf with all sorts of bowling books, read all the websites you can find and watch a zillion videos on youtube and end up one big fat confused mess.

I'm purposely limiting the information I'm studying right now to the basics. For that, I recommend Mark Baker's game changer because he boils down the physical game to it's basic components and gives you simple, common sense answers to the questions we all ask ourselves such as "why can't I do that all the time" when we throw a great shot or "why did I just miss left when the last two shots that hit that arrow were right on target" and so on. I just bought it yesterday and I'm already on my second read through.

For instructional video, I've been watching the Norm Duke 1-2-3-4-5-6 videos on youtube and I've learned quite a bit from that as well. For starters, when I start in my stance I have the ball resting on my left hand (my throwing hand). After watching Norm's videos, I know now that I should be supporting the ball with my right hand instead in my stance, so that my throwing arm stays relaxed and loose - I had no idea! But it makes perfect sense and I can't wait to put what I've learned from the book and the videos into practice.