10 Pin Bowling Tips
10 pin bowling tips: #1 - Overturning a ball is easier than turning it properly.
If you observe the topnotchers closely, you will see that they try to put just as much "stuff" on the ball as possible without losing control.
It is unfortunately true that all too many low-average bowlers simply try to put a lot of "stuff" on the ball without regard for control of the tricky delivery.
The fallacy of this lies in their trying to impress their friends or in seeking to take a "short cut" to high scoring by trying to master this difficult delivery before they have even come close to mastering the simple fundamentals of approach and delivery.
10 pin bowling tips: #2 - Perfection in fundamentals means higher scores.
The success of one very famous collegiate football team may be traced, in part, to the idea of its coaches that a team well versed in fundamentals can beat the biggest or trickiest of foes.
Consequently, when this school's first football practice is called each season, every man, regardless of his ability in high school or in previous college years, is given a thorough and painstaking grounding in such fundamentals as blocking and tackling.
Bowling is exactly the same. The more perfect your grasp of fundamentals, the more consistently high scores you will roll, for you are then repeating, time after time after time, the same exact steps, the same swing of the ball in rhythm with the hands, body and feet, the same back swing and the same release. You will be as close to a machine as it is possible to get.
10 pin bowling tips: #3 - A one-pin spare is roughly a 23-inch target.
This statement may come as a surprise to many low-average bowlers who seem to let a one-pin spare setup "buffalo" them. Let me explain what I mean.
To begin with, that pin standing out there on the lane has a diameter, at its greatest width, of approximately 5 inches. The ball with which you intend to hit the pin has a diameter of approximately 9 inches, which, in effect, gives you about 14 inches of space in which to hit the pin on the left.
But, to make it even better, you might also hit it on the right, which gives you nearly 9 inches more, or a total of approximately 23 inches of room in which to succeed in toppling the pin.
Even in the case of the 7-pin or the 10-pin, this holds fairly true. For instance, in shooting for the 10-pin, you still possess your original 9 inches of the ball on the left side, plus the 5 inches of the pin itself, plus a large part of the 9 inches on the right, for, on many occasions, a ball just dropping into the gutter will graze the 10-pin enough to topple it. The same, in reverse, is true of the 7-pin,
granted in both cases that you are playing these spares from the correct angle.
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