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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: bullred on October 02, 2015, 02:03:10 PM
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Try the Texas Hop. Shawn Maldonado has won four regionals(SW) in a row last time I looked.
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What is the Texas Hop?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=546F7W1LXMw
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I kinda like the nervousness foot wipe dance he does waiting for his ball haha
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It's bad technique that Maldonado can successfully repeat and get away with. Attempt at your own peril. ::)
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Try the Texas Hop. Shawn Maldonado has won four regionals(SW) in a row last time I looked.
I wouldn't call it "bad" technique, but it's certainly not something you would be likely to teach. Still, it shows yet again that it really doesn't matter what you do as long as you can repeat it.
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Try the Texas Hop. Shawn Maldonado has won four regionals(SW) in a row last time I looked.
I wouldn't call it "bad" technique, but it's certainly not something you would be likely to teach. Still, it shows yet again that it really doesn't matter what you do as long as you can repeat it.
Semantics aside, if it's a technique you wouldn't teach, it isn't good. I was also thinking as much about the stress that a plant-and-hop puts on your leg. It's not a technique you'd likely take into your middle and senior years.
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What, no comments about two handed delivery. Is this becoming too common to comment about anymore???
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Trying to beat another dead horse Bullred? (2 handed deliveries), as long as the ball goes over the foul line, who cares how it gets to the head pin?
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Got into a bad habit of doing this as a conventional style bowler. Couldn't figure out why.
Was a matter of balance and trying to put too much on the ball during release and follow through. (Hitting up on the ball)
Through lessons and practice I relaxed my arm swing and stayed better balanced and far more stable and relaxed at the foul line.
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Naw Bradley, just trying to get an intelligent bite to continue the subject, but just got a smarta__
nibble.
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I kinda like the nervousness foot wipe dance he does waiting for his ball haha
Not knowing the guy or his habits, it could just be part of a pre-shot routine he developed through the years...I know several people (myself included) who always wiped their shoes while waiting on the ball to come back.
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Some bowling alleys aren't as well kept and cleaning your shoes regularly isn't a bad idea. Amazed the kinds of crumbs and other junk you may be walking through
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Hopefully, this post wasn't a knock on this very talented player. We are both in Houston and although I haven't known him long; he is very impressive. Great work ethic, humble attitude and a killer on just about every pattern I've seen him play on. He and D J Archer are two of the players down here that make me glad I now reside here.
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Far from it. I have been privileged to bowl with most all of the young breakout bowlers from this area.
A lot of them I watched through the TBOA days, TTBA, as Sasba guests just kids, to the regionals, and some to national level.
I remember Lacy, Richard Howell: The "Tazmanian Devil" from Memphis, a left handed cranker named Smurf and many others.
Remember when Richard came to SASBA tournaments with A.D. Byrd. He was the first no thumber, one handed bowlers most of us had ever seen. He was scary.
All we gentlemen, had the repect of us "older" bowlers.
The post was to just 'boost" Shawn is a light way
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Bullred, I have heard stories about Smurf. We might know some of the same people. I also bowl SASBA.
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How is this new? Belmo has the same hop and has been doing it from a very young age.
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who????? I don't know any Belmo. If you're referring to Jason Belmonte, he don't hop. Probably has as good a slide as anyone.
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How is this new? Belmo has the same hop and has been doing it from a very young age.
The hop being discussed in this thread is Maldonado's hop after release, not the typical two handed hop on the 4th step.