Knowing Your Rev rate.
If you have a low rev rate you will have less power but your ball will read the lane better. When the lanes become dry low rev rate makes it easy to bowl because your ball wont read the front part of the lane as early. A lower rev rate also will help you bowl more games.
If you have a high rev rate you will have a power full strike ball. With a high rev rate your ball will read the lane faster, but when the lanes are oily the ball will still read the lanes early but the result will be a strong back end reaction. When the lanes become dry you better hope you got a less aggressive bowling ball with you, if you don’t your going to have to start throwing the ball harder.
Here are some techniques for high and low rev rates.
IF you have a lower rev rate go out and get a high reactive bowling ball and drill the ball then go long with a strong back end. That means if you throw your ball straight you will love the pin carry you will have, but if you have a low rev rate and you like to hook it then it will have a stronger back end. When the lanes become dry just keep moving left if your a righty.
IF you have a high rev rate go out a get a heavy rolling ball, what a heavy rolling ball if a lower reactive ball the will drive through the pins. When the lanes are oily go straighter, but when the lanes get really dry then you might have some problem. When the lanes are dry and your standing as far as you can to the left, you should put LOFT on your ball. Loft is where you throw the ball farther down the lane, what loft does to your ball is it makes it go longer. When the ball is in the air it can’t hook and it can’t read the lane too early. If you still get too much hook and you can’t throw your ball any harder you have to go to the last thing to do. What you have to do is stand on negative 5 board or so in that area. Then when your standing in that area your foot should be almost sliding into the lane dividers. Then you will have to loft your ball over the gutter.
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.
When the lane conditions become oily there are a few ways to handle it. You can move your feet and throw straight up the first arrow. If you still leave weak pins like the 5, 7,10,2-8, then this means your ball can’t handle the oil. What you do is go and sand your ball, sanding is where you make the surface of your ball more reactive to the lane. You can sand your ball yourself if you wanted to, all you need is some sand paper. The finer the paper the more your ball will hook. After sanding your ball will have more back end and a better reaction.
This is what I think are the most important things in bowling
1. Mental Game
You have to have a good mental game, what i mean is you can’t get mad or frustrated because you’re not bowling good. ALWAYS take your bowling one frame at a time. By having a good mental game you have a slight advantage over everyone else, not only will this help your game it will help you in seeing what’s happening when something goes wrong.
2. Physical shape.
You health is another key to bowling, keep your self in shape. Bowling is not a easy sport, it demands so much and when your body is a little bit tried or lazy it could lower your scores up to 50 PINS.
3. Mechanics.
You can’t bowl good without good form. Timing, push off, follow through, and a good knee bend are the keys to bowling good. If your ball is late in your swing you wont get enough lift or get too much lift on the ball. If you don’t push off at all most of the time you will leave a 10 pin because without the push off you don’t follow through. With out a knee bend you will become less consistent, because you get farther away from the lane.
4. Spares and Strikes
Spares are the most important thing in this game, without spares your strikes will be worth a lot less. Spares are the heart of the game, sure you could throw a lot of strikes but then you still would end up with like 220’s and 200’s without spares.
This post is to tell everyone that vists my website that you can email me. If you want me to go out and buy a new ball and make a video on it and give you info about it i will, but i can’t be 100% that i will have to money to do that, so if you want to make a donation to me thats fine to. If you need more information about anything i can help you, you just have to e mail me.
The first thing is to ask yourself is do i hook the ball? Do i have a high rev rate? Do i have a high ball speed?
I’ll start out with people that hook the ball with a high rev rate. When you have a high rev rate like me, the ball will read the lane much early then most. When finding your best rotation you gotta look at the lane conditions and the ball your using. If your ball is drilled for max hook, and the lanes are oily, you would want to have a 3-9 o-clock to 4-10 o-clock rotation. By having this rotation it allows your ball to get through the front put of the lane and explode on the back end for max hook. But if you have a high rev rate and your using the same ball when you hook it and the lanes are dry, you must have a more end-over-end roll like 4.5-10.5 o-clock to a 5.5-11.5 o-clock roll. By having this end-over-end roll the ball wont read the lane right away, the result of throwing the ball like this is a much straighter down-and-in shot.
For those that like to throw the ball straight, there is a good chance that you have a lower rev rate. When the lanes are oily and your having a hard time hitting the pocket you have to have more of a 5-11 o-clock roll. The reason for this is because of the lower rev rate the ball will hook more than if you had a high rev rate. Another thing is that throwing the ball like that, you create lots of carry and back end.
How to hook the ball, its not easy and it will take time to master. The first thing you should do in hooking you ball is to make sure that you have a mid-high performance ball, by having a ball like that it should make hooking the ball easier.
The first step in hooking the ball is the start with a lighter ball so you don’t hurt your arm, wrist, and elbow. Another thing to remember is that a finger tip ball helps out a lot, a finger tip ball is where you have the ball drilled so your thumb goes all the way in the ball and your fingers go in to the first knuckle. Now when your ready to bowl you should always put you fingers in first to provide a perfect fit. It doesn’t matter if you have a high or low back swing its all in the wrist and elbow. I’ll tell you about how max your hooking potential later.
When you get into you backswing and when your come down you should cup your wrist ( get under the ball) and when you get to the bottom of your swing you should release the ball on the upward part of your swing, but that’s not the only thing, also when your about the release the ball let it roll of your hand and lift up with your fingers. Now after you get that down you should see your ball hook more and more.
Step 2
After you been hooking the ball for a few week your should start to feel stronger, and when you feel that your ready to change to a heaver ball, increase your weight by 2-3 pounds. If you feel that your ball still isn’t hooking enough you should use your elbow to provide more spin. when you come into the top of your back swing start to bend your elbow. About half way through your back swing push the ball off with your elbow and lift with your fingers. ANOTHER INPORTANT THING IS when you release the ball that you have rotation that is going for the head pin.
THING TO WATCH FOR
If your ball was drilled and has too long of a span on one of your fingers YOU SHOULD NOT USE IT. This is very dangerous because you can pull tendons and even break one of your fingers. When one of your fingers has to long of a span it puts all the pressure on that one finger.
This is a video of my friend Nick Holm bowling in league at Little Falls Bowling Center.
On this The Lanes are slick. Nick is a lefty and is a pretty good bowler as well. Even with Nicks extremely small rev rate compared to mine, he makes up for it with his consistency.
In this video Nick uses three different Balls From Colombia 300.
I went out and bought the lane #1 Dirty Bomb. The Dirty Bomb, how can i say this, its A BOMB when it hits. The Dirty bomb is the best ball i ever thrown in my life. The Bomb just never seems to let up, it just keeps on hitting hard.
My Favorite part about this Ball is that it hooks, and then it can go straight. Made for Heavy oil lanes this is my ideal ball for any lane condition.
On this film I’m bowling on wood lanes with heavy oil, and carry down. Watch for the Great explosion and the awesome carry.
I Rate this ball 95 out 0f 100 *****
Me bowling in little falls, MN. These are wood lanes that are hard to master and tend to have very different lane conditions from one week to another. it’s hard to avg. over 200 her but i avg a 213.
The first ball i throw is the Track Avenger.
The second ball i throw is the Brunswick Zone Classic. the Zone classic is one of my favorite balls. it’s very ease to rev up and i love to throw this ball hard and fast. It’s a very consistent bowling ball.
The Third ball i thrown is the Hammer Black widow Pearl. The Pearl is very clean threw the front of the lane and has a strong backend.
I Rate the Track Avenger, 86 out 0f 100
I Rate the Brunswick Zone Classic 89 out of 100
and the Hammer Black widow Pearl 91 out of 100
I’m Henry Turtwin 6′1″ 180 lbs. I throw the ball between 18-20 MPH. I also have around 400 RPMS on the ball.
I’m bowling with the Storm Charge in the Beacon Bowl in Naples, FL.
The Charge is 16lbs. Has a 4″ pin and is drilled to go long and have a strong backend reaction. The Charge is a very controllable, and has a strong backend. The Charge is made for light to mid oily lane conditions.
I Rate this ball 90 out of 100
I’m bowling on carry down after league bowling.
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.
I’m heading up to Becon Bowl tonight for there quarter mania. i will leave another post about there lane conditions and how i did.
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