Well, when you have a finger tip ball you always wanna put your ring and middle finger in the ball first, then you put your thumb in the ball.

Trying to master hooking the ball is hard under normal conditions, but when the lanes are dry it’s a hole new story. When throwing the ball fast and hard with a high rev rate, or if you hook the ball it takes a lot accuracy.

Step one: When throwing a fast hook ball watch for any oil spots or dry areas on the lane, the thing is when the lanes are dry, finding a oily spot could save your life. When the lanes are a tad touchy in the back end, finding a dry spot will increase back end reaction.

Step two: When bowling, know your limitations.

Knowing the lanes you bowl on is key to bowling well.

Every bowling lane is 60ft long and is 40 boards wide. There are arrows about 15ft down the lane, the arrows are 5 boards apart, 5 from the gutter and 5 from the other arrows. The next thing is that the pocket on both sides of the lane is at the 17.5 board. The Boards are added on each side 0-20 and they meet at the head pin with is the 20th board.

OK, now if you’re league bowling and you don’t bowl on any PBA oil patterns, you should know that on any league shot, that the outside part of the lane is dry and the middle is oily. When you’re bowling you should always find out where the dryer part of the lane is.

Now on to the different types of lanes.
Now there are a few different types on lanes out there. There are wood, synthetic, wood synthetic, and guardian.
Wood lanes tend to have higher friction and faster hooking conditions. synthetic lanes will have a smother reaction, but synthetic lanes will also make it much easier to hook the ball. Synthetic lanes are easy to bowl on than wood lanes. Now wood synthetic (WS) lanes can be hard to bowl on. WS is two different lanes put together. The lanes could be the first 30ft could be wood or the other way around, by doing this the lanes make up many different reactions.

Bowling ball weights, the weight of your ball does matter. The max weight is 16lbs and the min is 6lbs. With a 16 pound ball you wont get as much hook as you would get with a 14lbs ball. A 16lbs ball will drive harder into the pins getting better carry, but if you have a high rev rate like me then you wouldn’t really want to throw a heavy ball; instead i throw a 15lbs ball. The lightest reactive ball is only 10 pounds and that ball will hook but it wont even get you half of the carry that a heavy ball will have.

Pin Placement is a very important thing that helps your ball pretty much do any thing.

Where do you want your pin placement at?????

For Oily lanes you want the pin far away from your track. (your track is the part where the ball rolls on the lane)
In the picture below it shows for a righty where you want your pin, where the pin=p and your track=T. Now if you have a high rev rate and you want extra length on the ball get closer to your track, but make sure not to get to close to it. You would want the pin to be above the fingers or if you want length and a smooth roll on it you would want it below your fingers.

The higher the pin the sharper the reaction and the lower the smoother the reaction.

Do High performance bowling balls make a difference in bowling? there are many opinions on this subject. I’ll give you mine.

High performance bowling balls have different coverstocks than mid performance bowling balls. Some of these coverstocksare; Reactive Pearl, C4 solid Reactive,  particle, particle pearl. With all these different coverstocks, the high performance balls have more options than the mid performance bowling balls. The coverstock doesn’t make up a bowling ball, it’s the combination of the coverstock and core.

       High performance bowling balls do make a difference in a few ways. The first way would be that they give you more options then mid-performance bowling balls. Another way is that in tournaments where the oil patters can be hard a high performance bowling ball will be better then a mid-performance bowling ball.

     Mid-performance bowling balls only give you limited options in categories such as length, overall hook, and angle to the pocket, while the high performance bowling balls will give you way more options and different looks at the pocket.

     Another thing to keep in mind is that the coverstock of the bowling ball can only last so long. A way to keep your ball hitting hard and reacting the same, time and time again, is to clean your ball or balls after bowling. Another thing is that you can go to a pro shop and ask them to refinish your ball. When your ball gets refinished, they use a special oil remover to get rid of the oil that has soaked into your coverstock. 

Hi every one i’m Henry Trutwin. i’m a bowler i have a high back swin with a high rev rate. i throw the ball around 18-20 mph.

PowerHungry Bowling is my own web site that i made for people to view, leave comments, to see my bowling ball reviews, and to see how my bowling career is going.

Another thing is that this site also provides information on bowling balls. For any other questions please send me a e mail at henry =at= phbowling.com.