QuestionI am trying to stay behind the ball, but I keep turning the ball, what can I do to help fix this, I still want a free arms wing, that uses gravity and not muscle.
Answer
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Coach Gary Oatis
Hi John, staying behind the ball is a mechanical motion. As all beginning ball motion that is created when you are learning to bowl. Only after you have mastered the position of release, walking, or whatever, do you learn to start relaxing any muscles. Once you learn control, you begin to un-control certain aspects of your swing, release, or posture that allows you to have a freer, swing, delivery, or release.
In my new book, "True Bowler Adjustments", I write about two releases. Spinning and Forward Rolling or the End-Over-End Release. The Forward rolling release requires your hand to stay more behind the back of the ball. My book covers all the details of the release. The benefits and the short falls of the release also.
It is best to wait until you have passed your ankle until you deliver the ball. To do this in the beginning you would want to break your wrist down slightly. If you can maintain this through your forward swing, past your ankle, until release you should do fine. If you can not, you will have to slow yourself down quite a bit to teach your hand and wrist that "you" want to stay behind the ball and "lift," not spin your shot, down lane at release. It is difficult to accomplish at first. Your natural tendency is to do what you have already done hundreds or thousands of times before. As you know, spinning the ball.
In summary John, break your wrist down a bit and try to come up the back of the ball. Wait, wait, wait, and then release the ball forward rolling down the lanes slowly at first. Wait, wait, wait, until you are a little past your ankle before giving the ball a little lift, coming up towards the ceiling with your hand.
One of the most important things any bowler can do John is get a USBC Certified coach to work with you. There is not a more frustrating feeling than doing the same thing over and over, thinking you have made a change and you have not. Coaches can concretely give you immediate feedback whereas your trained body, may not. Which is why I video tape bowlers so I don't get caught in the middle. Great bowling to you sir, and I pray your new venture brings you a truck load of strikes in the 10th frame, of every game!
-Coach Gary,
Las Vegas, NV.
www.TrueBowlerAdjustments.com (It's A Great Book!)
