Ten Pin Bowling Tips

All of the ten pin bowling tips I’ve posted on this website and many, many more bowling tips can be found within the pages of The Ultimate Bowling Guide book in a very easy to read format. I’ve printed a copy and keep it in the car so I can read the odd bowling tip prior to our Thursday night game with my friends. I have a 5 minute ritual in the parking lot, I take a few minutes to read two or three bowling tips just prior to entering the bowling alley, this keeps the ideas fresh in my mind and it’s made a HUGE difference to my game.

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To create the most fluid approach timing, concentrate on balancing your body and on creating a build up of momentum. Here are some elements to experiment with:

On your first step, bring the bowling ball back in alignment with your bowling arm side foot, concentrating on keeping it over the foot.

On your second step, let the ball swing back naturally. Forget about your feet and just feel the swing. It’s as if that foot concentration times the ball into it’s swing.

On your third step stay on your push off foot for a long time…waiting for the ball to come through.

Finally set your sliding foot underneath you as you release the ball and slide into your balanced delivery position.

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Practice adjusting your speed to match the lane you’re bowling on. Cultivate speed control in more and more minute levels. Be able to pull a certain speed out like you were taking it out of your pocket. The theme is flexibility and the speed of your ball, swing, timing should have several settings. The more the better.

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Practice walking left and walking right and having a straight walk. Practice open and closed shoulders. Practice adjusting speeds. Have at least three different approach timings. Practice playing different parts of the lane. Flexibility is power.

Cultivate three or four releases, all of which work well. For a stretch, intentionally put yourself in poor conditions and practice bowling well under them.

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From Pacific Daily News

A former airport employee allegedly involved in a scheme to steal money from airport parking lot fees has agreed to plead guilty in the case.

Glen C. Fernandez, one of six former airport employees charged in the theft case, signed a plea agreement, of which Superior Court Judge Steven Unpingco received a copy yesterday morning.

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If Unpingco accepts the agreement, Fernandez will repay the airport $6,000 and help the government prosecute cases against the other airport employees involved in the alleged scheme, said Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Moots. The employees are accused of collectively stealing $57,000 from the airport, according Superior Court of Guam documents.

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When the 10 pin (or 7 for left handers) is not snapping back but just flops into the channel …then you know it’s time to make an adjustment for carry down.

Carry down is the process that happens when oil moves from the heads (the first 15 feet of the lane) to the midlane (next 25 to 30 feet). The oil is stretched towards the pins by balls moving over the boards. Carry down will delay your balls hook into the pocket.

Ways to adjust:

1. Move your feet back a little from your regular starting position.

2. Move your starting position a little to the side.

3. Move your starting position back and to one side.

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Much of the book is for athletes and gives examples of athletic performance related applications of the techniques. 1990, Harper and Row Publishers Inc. 10 E. 53rd St., NY , NY 10022. First Harper Perennial edition published in 1991. Available at most major books stores and the Amazon link above .

Here’s an overview of the key steps to creating this extraordinary state of enjoyment and concentration.

Mental Game To The Max (soon)

Determine to have extraordinary master level concentration when you bowl. Remember that concentration is not holding your mind on one thing. It is directing your attention within a determined sphere of things. Thus… choose 3 to 5 to 7 things you wish to have your attention on when you bowl.

You can write them on a list and keep them in your pocket if you wish. Practice bowling for longer and longer periods of time with your attention moving from one of those things on your list to another.

You can condition your consciousness to remain within a predetermined set of criteria. This is the true secret to concentration. Don’t make the mistake of trying to hold your mind in one place. It is not possible. The mind’s tendency is to move. Control the movement within the sphere (list) of things you choose!

Pick and use a few words and say them to yourself to trigger yourself to bowl ‘intuitively.’ Examples are ‘Trust’, ‘Let Go’, ‘now’, ‘It all comes together now’. As you say your phrase concentrate on your breathing or your heart beat.

In effect, you are conditioning yourself to enter a meditative state on cue, whereupon your skills and training from the past will simply come to the forefront automatically.

Adjust to conditions more quickly as you’re bowling. To do this, make the observations you noticed in Bowling Tip 28 more conscious. Practice making them conscious by saying them internally to yourself. Then make the adjustment you feel is best.

Mix this process with complete instinctive, intuitive bowling in which you’re not thinking at all. The result is a ying/yang type of analysis/intuitive blend that will keep you at your best more often.

Turn up and heighten your sensitivity to the conditions. Put your attention on the other players, lanes, oil, bowling ball factors, your energy, your mood, your concentration, lane surface. Make your own list of things to put your attention on!

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From www.burnleycitizen.co.uk

TWO Nelson car dealers have jumped on board a police scheme to put the brakes on number plate theft.

Perry’s Peugeot and Walker Farrimond Citroen have signed up to support Pendle police’s “Safe Plates” initiative which involves the free fitting of tamper proof security screws to car number plates.

They are the first car dealerships in the country to sign up to the scheme which has seen more than 3,000 cars fitted with the special screws.

And the two dealers have promised to fit the security screws to all new vehicles and previous customers’ cars being serviced.

The screws are designed to stop thieves stealing number plates and using them in crimes like driving off from petrol stations without paying.

Keep your bowling towel folded. Use one side for your hand and one side for the ball. Do not mix them up or the oil from the ball will wind up on your hands. Pick up the ball with your non bowling hand to wipe it off. Never touch the oily side of the towel with your bowling hand.

Play to win. Play all out. Imagine you’re a pro. Form the habit of staying in a state of relaxed concentration every time you bowl. Make winning important every time until it’s a habit and you simply expect to win. Make bowling well, and having fun the most important things on your mind when you’re bowling.

Practice keeping your shoulders straight up and down (perpendicular to the floor) and keep your chin directly above your sliding knee. These two simple keys, shoulders straight up and down, and chin directly above the sliding knee on delivery, will add balance, leverage and power to your release every time!