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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Impending Doom on December 02, 2013, 08:38:38 AM
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Everyone knows I'm a ball hoarder. I love drilling bowling balls. This is my speculative post of the day.
I wish people would learn how important hand positions are, and how to be able to use at least a secondary one. Having another hand position and release in your physical arsenal is like having a multiplier for your bowling balls. Got 3 balls and 2 releases? That's like having 6 balls in the bag! Your releases won't overlap each other, you don't need to find a replacement release because last year's release is discontinued. You should know how to do a hand down as opposed to guessing what to ball down to.
A bag full of stuff that suits the conditions you're bowling on is great, but when you want to change balls, instead of moving 3 and 1 and change your hand position, something is wrong.
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Everyone knows I'm a ball hoarder. I love drilling bowling balls. This is my speculative post of the day.
I wish people would learn how important hand positions are, and how to be able to use at least a secondary one. Having another hand position and release in your physical arsenal is like having a multiplier for your bowling balls. Got 3 balls and 2 releases? That's like having 6 balls in the bag! Your releases won't overlap each other, you don't need to find a replacement release because last year's release is discontinued. You should know how to do a hand down as opposed to guessing what to ball down to.
A bag full of stuff that suits the conditions you're bowling on is great, but when you want to change balls, instead of moving 3 and 1 and change your hand position, something is wrong.
Amen to that! I was just on Facebook talking to some other bowlers about this same thing, over the weekend.
Case in point: I was bowling on a chopped up spotty light oil, surface two weeks ago, when I realized that everyone on the lanes was pinging ten pins, both flat and ringers. We were bowling in position round, and as that goes, "He who finds it first, Wins!" Went with a weaker piece and changed my release and suddenly I was the only one on the lanes throwing a five-bagger!! This stuff works.
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I think the real goal is to have a range of hand positions that a bowler feels comfortable with instead of two individual releases. If you want to use pro bowlers as an example, they don't have one, two or three releases. What they have is a range of rotation angles and perhaps even tilts that allow them to achieve their desired results.
But this requires that godawful thing called practice. Some bowlers don't have the time or want to improve their physical games. Will practice make them better bowlers? Probably. But imagine the time, effort and cost in achieving those results. You can do all of that, or buy a second ball that requires only cost and no time.
I realize this is somewhat devil's advocate, but for the once-a-week bowler, it is hard to tell them they have to have multiple releases to get enjoyment out of bowling, especially on a THS that makes everything seem the same. So what they enjoy getting a new ball. That new ball can instill confidence beyond what a practice session with some new release can.
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Learned that for me I can adjust my fingers and get just about as much of a change as I do trying to adjust my release. I do have a very flat, rolly release I can switch too as well, but it doesn't carry as well.
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This is exactly one of the points I've been trying to teach to the kid I've been working with. His dad keeps buying him balls looking for something that will "hook," but the kid is completely one dimensional. There are several kids that can do just as good or better with 2 or 3 balls than he can do with literally 10.