Tips For Bowling
Tips for bowling #1 - Work on just one or two details at a time.
Do not try to concentrate on everything at once. While you are practicing, try working first on your footwork and your release.
Or perhaps your push away and your back swing, or even just one of them. Don't try to think of every individual phase of your game or you will wind up improving none of them. Smooth out your game one detail at a time.
Tips for bowling #2 - Never make the same mistake three times in a row.
Anyone who fails three successive times in the same exact fashion is not learning a thing. For example, if I throw what I consider is my normal ball on a certain alley and it fails to come up to the 1-3 pocket, hitting the 3-pin practically dead center, I begin to suspect that the alley is "fast."
On my second time on this same lane, I might again throw my normal ball and see it hit the same spot. On the third shot, you can be sure, I will direct my ball so far to the left that I may hit the 1-2 pocket, or the headpin dead center, but I will definitely avoid making the same mistake three successive times.
Anyone who has bowled any time at all knows that every bowling lane is different from every other one, and that two adjoining lanes may have an entirely different effect on the path of your ball. It is up to you to learn this, and learn it as fast as you can.
The top ranking champions very often are champions because they were able to solve these tricky conditions faster than their opponents. But, first and foremost, they learned from their mistakes, and turned what might have been a disadvantage into an advantage.
Watch the action of your ball closely and profit by your observation.
Tips for bowling #3 - Hold the ball easily—don't squeeze it.
Hold a ball as you would a suitcase weighing sixteen pounds.
Simply get a firm, natural, grip on it. Do not seize it in a death grip, nor hold it so loosely that you might drop it. Use a relaxed, secure grip.
Tips for bowling #4 - Good bowlers are made—not born.
Every good bowler in the game today has been developed. He has served his apprenticeship through long practice and great concentration on fundamentals. He began in mediocrity, since no bowler ever possessed championship ability to begin with.
The wonderful thing about the game, however, is that it requires no special ability, except perhaps co-ordination, to become a champion. Even co-ordination can be developed. So shoot high, but don't ever be misled into thinking that you can reach the top without lots of practice. It can't be done.
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