Bowling Tips

It’s essential to have a relaxed grip on the ball. This is the real secret to a free flowing armswing! Relax your grip more and more until it feels like you’re barely hanging onto the ball. This will help you get over any fear of dropping the ball. Keep your fingers, and especially your thumb, [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 1 – Relax Your Grip & Swing

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

If you’re consistently leaving certain pin combinations, you can lower or raise the position of your ball in you stance. This increases or diminishes your swing slightly. Another method to use if you’re leaving certain pin combinations is to experiment with finger pressure. Try using less finger pressure, then more. Usually, the more finger pressure [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 18 – Picking up more Spares

Practice taking more time with spares. Line up the shot more carefully every time and make it a habit to do so and you’ll pick up a lot more spares. Make your spare timing different and slower than your regular timing.

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 16 – Adjust for Spares

A preshot routine is a set of actions you do each time you bowl. It stabilizes you, evens out your timing, and triggers your entire mind and body to bowl your best shot over and over again. A good preshot routine is just like what a baseball player does when he steps up to bat. [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 20 – Develop Your Preshot Routine

On single pin spares, throw a straight ball rather than a hook. Practice a straight shot if you don’t have one and use it for those single pin spares. Hooking requires you to cover more boards so there’s more room for error.

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 17 – Getting spares

One customary method of choosing ball weight is to choose a ball that is 10% of your body weight give or take a pound. Test different weights with house balls until you get one you feel comfortable with. Be sure to bowl many games with a ball at that weight. When you have your own [...]

Continue Reading Bowling Tip 6 – Find the Right Bowling Ball Weight For You