Bowling Tips

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 [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 33 – Develop Flexibility

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 [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 32 – Adjust to The Oil

Buy and read the book FLOW, The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. BUY FROM AMAZON. Yes that’s actually his last name! It is simply one of the finest books ever written on acquiring and prolonging a heightened state of focus, concentration and learning. Much of the book is for athletes and gives examples [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 31 – Take Your Flow State To the Max!

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 [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 30 – Increase Your Mental Concentration

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 [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 29 – Trigger your skills automatically and subconsciously

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 [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 28 – Adjust quickly to conditions

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!

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 27 – Heighten your attention to conditions

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 [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 26 – Your Bowling Towel

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 [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 25 – Play aggressively

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!

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 24 – Balance & align