Bowling tips

[gwrober]

Originally posted by: ropeadope

In related news, bowling kicks ass. Go out and bowl!

I love bowling. I sucked terribly until I bought a Beast some years ago - I still use that ball, and avg about 170+. I want to get a new one, but I don't roll enough to justify it.

Now that I'm self employed, I don't work with any bowling types....

 

[fustercluck]

Hmm, Pacfanweb said to move left and torytime said to move right...now I'm confused - When people said move a board over do they mean the dots where you start from or the actual boards in the floor? I can't move much more left though or I'll be bumping into the ball return machine or be almost in the other lane.

I don't know why anyone wouldn't bowl a hook ball, it gives you a much better chance of getting a high score (200+) than a straight ball does. Plus bowling a hook is a lot funner - I would only recommend a straight ball to beginners, to get the basics down first, then eventually they should go on to a hook ball. Throwing a hook takes some people much longer to learn than others though, and if you only bowl 3-4 times a year, you probably don't care enough to start trying to develop a hook.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: ropeadope
Hmm, Pacfanweb said to move left and torytime said to move right...now I'm confused - When people said move a board over do they mean the dots where you start from or the actual boards in the floor? I can't move much more left though or I'll be bumping into the ball return machine or be almost in the other lane.

I don't know why anyone wouldn't bowl a hook ball, it gives you a much better chance of getting a high score (200+) than a straight ball does. Plus bowling a hook is a lot funner - I would only recommend a straight ball to beginners, to get the basics down first, then eventually they should go on to a hook ball. Throwing a hook takes some people much longer to learn than others though, and if you only bowl 3-4 times a year, you probably don't care enough to start trying to develop a hook.

If you miss to the right, you move where you stand on the approach to the right, and keep the same target. That will move where the ball hits the pins to the left.
Do the opposite when you miss to the left. So if you're a right handed bowler throwing a hook, and your ball is going through the nose (hitting the headpin), you move left on the approach....hit the same mark, and you'll be in the pocket...you may have to move a board or two at the time until the get the ball zeroed in on the pocket.
The only time you'd move right when you miss to the left is if you are going to drastically change the type of shot you're throwing...either you're going to adjust speed, hook, or change balls to one that hooks less. Sometimes I've had a ball that was just hooking too much to control, no matter how far I moved left, so I changed to a less-hooking ball, and moved right to compensate.

Oh, and when you're advised to move a "board" over....that literally means one board. Yes, the actual boards on the floor.

 

[IronWing]

Move up closer to the bottles.