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Ways To Keep Your Balance While Bowling And Not Fall Off Your Shot

Are you having issues falling off to one side at the foul line or hopping at the end of your approach to keep your balance? Hopefully a couple of these tips will help you.

Having A Good Bowling Stance Is The Key

Believe it or not, your starting position of your body or stance can greatly affect your finish position. The stance should be comfortable and easy to get into. There shouldn’t be a whole lot of gyrations or thinking to get into the proper stance. The shoulders and spine angle should be just slightly forward, but no more than 15 degrees. Knees should be slightly bent. Your weight should be evenly divided on your feet and not have too much weight on your heals or toes.

Do Not Hunch Over To Much In Your Bowling Approach

As you start your approach, the spine angle and shoulders should remain quiet and steady. Do not allow your shoulders to get too far out in front of you. You should really feel like your shoulders remain over your hips. This gives you a solid center of gravity and makes you use your big leg muscles.

Increase The Speed Gradually Of Your Bowling Approach

Your approach should start out slow allowing for a gradual increase in tempo. You will sometimes hear the phrase “your feet are too fast”. Your feet really can’t be too fast. This is a sport and all sports, to create power and leverage which comes from the legs, requires you to accelerate. There is no doubt that you don’t want to run to the line. But you do have to accelerate to create proper leverage using the legs.

How To Have A Nice Proper Slide Into Your Bowling Ball Release Point

As you get to your last step or slide, you should have some knee bend. It doesn’t take as much as most people think. You don’t have to get really close to the floor. Just a simple comfortable knee bend is all it takes. You also don’t want to drop way down at the last second. Just a gradual soft knee bend is great. Try and keep those shoulders and head somewhat steady. Don’t raise up or pull the shoulders back. This is usually caused by not having your chin just over your sliding knee at release.

Where Should My Trail Leg Be At The Foul Line

The last tip would be better use of your trail leg or non-sliding leg. If your trail leg is up in the air, it’s because your spine angle is too far forward and is acting like a balance beam so that you don’t fall forward. If your trail leg gets too close to your body, it is because your are pulling your shoulders back and standing up too much.

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Allan McDermott says:
I enjoyed your narrative. Easy to read and understand and not too long.

I am a season League Bowler of over 20 years (now a Senior) and in the last year I have developed a rather annoying trait of spinning the ball on the bottom. Not all the time, but a very high percentage, which does not alway allow the Ball to roll out.

I have tried a various amounts of techniques, from changing Speed, stance, tilt on the ball. Whilst I fix it one day, the next it is back to normal. The concentration level is not as good as it should be. I feel I am pulling the ball down and releasing too early. Fair accurate hitting the mark, pull the odd shot – which I understand is late timing.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. It is hard to try and analyse yourself bowling.

August 14, 2017 at 4:49 pm

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Ways To Keep Your Balance While Bowling And Not Fall Off Your Shot

Having A Good Bowling Stance Is The Key

Do Not Hunch Over To Much In Your Bowling Approach

Increase The Speed Gradually Of Your Bowling Approach

How To Have A Nice Proper Slide Into Your Bowling Ball Release Point

Where Should My Trail Leg Be At The Foul Line

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