These are the result of the way you release and rotate your fingers, not any movement from your wrist! In order to achieve a great hook, you want to adopt a fingertip grip , in which your middle and ring fingers are only inserted up to the first knuckle your thumb still goes all the way in. This is more advanced than the conventional grip that most bowlers start with in which your fingers are inserted up to the second joint.
It can be more difficult to control but allows for more hook action. Read more about these two grips here. You also may be wondering where to stand to throw a hook ball, and this can vary greatly depending on everything from your target arrow to the coverstock of your bowling ball. Our article on the bowling stance goes into more detail. You first need to remove the thumb from the bowling ball , which should happen right as you make your final step with your foot.
This is an important step for a hook shot, because your middle and index fingers are the ones that will be dictating the hook. After removing the thumb, the weight of the ball will be transferred to your fingers and the ball will be at the lowest point of your armswing. At this time, you remove the middle and ring fingers from the ball, while simultaneously turning them counter-clockwise for right-handers and clockwise for left-handers.
It should be a swift, natural flicking motion of the fingers, and they should come up and to the side of the bowling ball. This is known as lift and it gives the ball more force while allowing you to control your shot instead of weakly dropping it onto the lane. For a proper follow-through, your arm should continue to swing forward and towards your target.
It should end up looking as though you are giving a handshake. As the oil pattern changes, you will need to up your game, or at least make some course corrections so that the bowling ball always stays in the straight path and scores a strike. Making these adjustments are quite simple, really. It might have to do with how you position your feet or the sighting that needs to be aligned now or even moving slightly in the direction of the miss.
But in the long run, these small adjustments will pay off high dividends. When the bowling ball hooks too soon, notice the direction the ball took before it missed and then move towards that direction while having your eyes set on the same target as before. For example, if the bowling ball misses to the right of the target, then you need to move slightly right when you next approach.
It is a fairly simple rule and easy to remember — to move in the miss direction. Nonetheless, it is also a cardinal rule and must be remembered at all times in the bowling alley. Again, this game draws parallels from life itself. You need to learn to make a few adjustments to address the change in the game. As the oil pattern changes, any adjustment you make must be made, keeping this fact in mind. The oil patch is not the same throughout the bowling alley.
There are two major kinds of adjustments that may be made: angular adjustments and parallel adjustments. Say, for instance, you are standing on the 20th board to begin your bowling session, and your target sighting is on the 10th board. Still, as the lanes start to hook, even more, you would benefit by moving your starting position slightly, say by moving one board distance either to the left or right, as you see fit. But all this while keeping your target in the same position.
This is an example of angular adjustment. If you need to move further, these small adjustments might not be enough for you, and you will need to understand the principle on which angular adjustment works — which is the rule of 2 and 1. This means that for every two boards you move, your target moves in the same direction as you but only for one board.
Using the same example as above, if you were standing on the 20th board and your target was on the 10th board and moved two boards to the 22nd board, the target will need to move by one board to the 11th board when you are aiming. The same ratio can be applied if you are moving even more boards — 2 and 1 — 2 boards for you is one for the target in the same direction. There may be instances, though, where angular adjustments may not work sufficiently.
In such cases, considering parallel adjustments might do the trick. A parallel adjustment requires you to move directly in the direction of the target. If you move two boards to the left, your target also moves two boards to the left. You can further increase your chances of hitting the target by adjusting the trajectory of the bowling ball.
Aim at a target closest to the foul line will cause you to lay the ball down earlier and cause you to hit the target. It is quite painful to see that there are two pins on either corner standing still after your first approach and hit.
It is quite impossible to get to them in one shot as they are literally in two opposite directions. It is frustrating, no doubt, but it is not something that cannot be cured. To understand how to eliminate this problem, it is important first to understand the essentials of a perfect strike.
A perfect strike is one where no pins are standing. For this, the bowling ball needs to hit the pins hard and use the same momentum as it carries on to the 5 and 9 pockets. In a perfect strike, there is a bit of the Domino effect in play. For instance, the 3rd pin hits the 6th pin, which then hits the 10th pin in the corner.
In case there is a miss out in any one of these steps, the last pin is not likely to fall. So the force has to carry on from the first pin near the front and center all the way to the last pin in the corner. Find the missing link — that is, the pin that did not exert the necessary force to throw over the next in line, and try to understand what went wrong in there. If the 6th pin falls back without hitting the 10th pin, it could mean that you are hitting the headpin very high, and the force dissipates as it tumbles over to the next pin in line before completely vanishing, which results in pin 10 continuing to stand.
This is unlike modern macho-men who stand left and throw the ball to the right on doctored lanes, then become befuddled on honest conditions which punish them and bring them back to earth…as has been the case in many US Open tournaments that require quality execution.
These are the aspects of the game that create superstars like Chris Barnes, Tommy Jones, Wes Malott, Sean Rash, and others who are able to widen the pocket with revolutions and accuracy. Then, of course, there are the two incredible two-handed, thumbless bowlers, Jason Belmonte and Osku Palermaa, who have revolutionized pun intended the game by eliminating the thumb.
An effective hook is solely dependent on exiting the thumb PRIOR to the release point, placing the fingers at the bottom of the ball, then rotating the fingers to the right opposite for lefties. Continue Reading Already a premium member? Click here to log in. By: Tyrel Rose. By: Jordan Vanover. By: Joe Slowinski.
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